CEHS has invested time and attention on identifying where the cross-cutting themes of ‘Diversity’ and ‘Technology and Digital Learning’ are evident within both the CAEP Standards and the 2013 InTASC Standards.
The work on aligning Diversity to CAEP and InTASC is based on Donna Gollnick and Deborah Eldridge’s work on how the theme of Diversity was integrated throughout all of the CAEP standards, which was presented at the Fall 2013 CAEP Conference in Washington, D.C. In addition, they looked at how the theme of Diversity mapped to the the InTASC standards.
CEHS took the opportunity to do similar work with the Technology & Digital Learning theme as it was presented in both the CAEP and InTASC Standards. The following is an excerpt directly from the CAEP Standards on the Technology cross-cutting theme and should be highly considered when addressing this theme:
“The essence of technology is rapid change. Members of the Commission realize that for accreditation standards that may be in place for the better part of a decade, it is not possible to anticipate every opportunity through which technology might have potential to advance instructional effectiveness and student learning and development. The Commission has concluded that the current possibilities are insufficiently exploited, and those for the future are beyond current forecasting ability. Educator preparation providers should keep up with research, and those preparing educators should model best practices in digital learning and technology applications that the EPP expects candidates to acquire.”
Both the Diversity and Technology alignment documents are posted within this site.