NETS T and Integration Awareness

I attended a session titled " Differentiating NETS*T: Moving Teachers Toward Transformative Technology". It focused on the NETS T that came out last year from ISTE. If you buy the short book that goes more in depth on the NETS T, you'll find a rubric showing a teacher's progression with labels ranging from Beginning to Transformative. The speakers did a decent job demonstrating how they analyzed the rubric to differentiate teacher's levels when it came to the NETS T.

What I wanted to share though was an additional rubric using the same language, but looking at Integration Awareness. The descriptions below the words in bold are a combination of the speakers and my own. There seems to be an ongoing disagreement within my district that teacher's need training or support that addresses integration. I am of the thinking that you have to show them more than the technology tool and a couple ways to use it in the classroom. That is somewhat based off of the TPaCK framework as well as 12 years in education and using technology as an educator. This rubric gives some language to that thought of integration awareness as well as expands my own thinking.

Nets*T and Integration Awareness

	Beginning	Developing	Proficient	Transformative
Unaware	Beginning awareness “I’d like to integrate technology”	Aware Not planning themselves, co-planning/ co-teaching w/ ET; no spur of moment thinking of integration	Active awareness Teachers can pull out technology tools and plan for technology use on their own; initial thoughts may not always be best choice	Flexible awareness Constantly reacting and adjusting to outside needs; possibly in constructivist classroom