| The Denver Public Schools Teacher Technology Committee has created a list of vital technology skills for DPS Teachers. The list was created to ensure that teachers achieve the technology standards necessary to provide their students with the necessary technology skills set forth in the DPS Standards for Success. |
Vital Skills List for Teachers
Basic Computer/Technology Operations and Concepts |
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Professional Productivity |
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Integration of Technology Into Standards-Based Curriculum |
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Design and Management of Learning Environments and Resources |
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Basic Computer/Technology Operations and Concepts
Computer Operation- Essential Knowledge and Skills
Target Skills
- Demonstrate a high level of knowledge and self sufficiency with computer operations and provide support to students and staff
- Identify and demonstrate proficiency with major operating systems and platforms
Achieving Skills
- Exchange disks and files among platforms
- Choose appropriate applications and document types to create classroom materials
- Effectively use technology to accomplish a variety of instructional and management goals
- install, configure, and use local mass storage devices and media to store and retrieve information and resources
Progressing Skills
- Exchange disks and files among platforms
- Choose appropriate applications and document types to create classroom materials
- Effectively use technology to accomplish a variety of instructional and management goals
- Open and work with more than one application at a time place
- Use technology to expand basic instructional and productivity tasks (student data, parent correspondences)
Foundation Skills
- Start and shut down computer system and peripherals
- Identify and use icons, windows, menus
- Start an application and create a document
- Name, save, retrieve, and revise a document
- Use printing options on a network
- Insert and eject ejectable media
- Copy document from hard disk to floppy disk and vice versa
- Save, open, place documents inside subdirectories/folders
- Initialize, name/rename floppy disk
- Create and name/rename subdirectories/folders
- Run programs from CD ROMs
Setup, Maintenance, and Troubleshooting
Target Skills
- Configure a computer system and one or more software packages
- Setup, troubleshoot, install, and maintain computer operating systems for classrooms and laboratories
Achieving Skills
- Demonstrate ability to perform preventative maintenance using virus protection software
- Troubleshoot hardware and software problems with utility software (Norton Utilities)
- Describe and implement basic troubleshooting techniques for multimedia computer systems with related peripheral devices
- Identify strategies for troubleshooting and maintaining various hardware/software configurations
Progressing Skills
- Set up computer, install software, and connect basic peripherials
- Troubleshoot basic computer operations(restart computer, check cables and network connections
- Knowledge Areas:
- Protection against computer viruses
Foundation Skills
- Protect and care for storage media
- Make backup copies of documents and files
- Perform standard printer upkeep (e.g., change/add paper, ribbons, etc.)
- Describe technical problems for computers, peripherals and network connections with DoTS
- Troubleshoot technical problems following a set of predefined instructions or computers, peripherals and network connections from DoT
- Knowledge Areas:
- Proper operating environment forcomputer and peripherals
- Technical assistance resources available at building level"
Professional Productivity
Word Processing/ Introductory Desktop Publishing
Target Skills
- Convert documents to PDF and HTML
- Create documents to support learning activities
- Use advanced features of word processing, desktop publishing, graphics programs and utilities to develop professional products
Achieving Skills
- Add columns to a document
- Insert tables into a document
- Do mail merges
- Use style sheets and templates
- Import/insert data from other applications
- Download and read PDF files (Adobe Acrobat)
Progressing Skills
- set margins, line spacing, tabs, etc.
- Insert date, time, page number
- Insert graphics into a document
- Do mail merges
- Use style sheets and templates
- Import/insert data from other applications
- Use technology for basic procuctivity tasks
Foundation Skills
- Enter and edit text
- Cut, copy, and paste text
- Change font, size, style
- Check spelling
Target Skills
- Create reports
- Convert documents to PDF and HTML
Achieving Skills
- Create, copy, and modify formulas and functions to perform calculations
- Sort data
Progressing Skills
- Create a basic spreadsheet with rows, columns, headings
- Create a graph from spreadsheet data
Foundation Skills
- Interpret and communicate information in an existing spreadsheet
- Enter data into an existing spreadsheet
Target Skills
- Convert documents to PDF and HTML
- Master the use of databases,including accessing, and using information from a variety of database formats
Achieving Skills
- Create layouts for on-screen use and printing reports
- Design and manipulate databses and generate customized reports
Progressing Skills
- Mail Merge
- Create a basic database with multiple fields and records
- Find, modify, and sort database by specific fields
Foundation Skills
- Interpret and communicate information in an existing database
- Add and delete records in an existing database
Target Skills
- Set up and maintain a building-level LAN server
- Demonstrate mastery of accessing on-line resouces
Achieving Skills
- Effectively access and use Local Area and Wide Area networks
- Assist with setting up a new lab or networking an existing lab
Progressing Skills
- Access DPS Online Library Catalog
- Access DPS Library Databases(Electric Library)
- Understand difference between Local Area and Wide Area networks
- Knowledge Areas:
- Advanced knowledge of accessing on-line resources
Foundation Skills
- Find and use appropriate printer on network
- Access a file server (connect/log on, retrieve a program or document, save a document to a specified location)
- Connect and disconnect from network using user ID and password
- Appropriate use of network resources and printer
- Knowledge Areas:
- Terms such as local area network, wide area network, access rights, security passwords, file server, zone
Target Skills
- Create documents for posting on the world wide web
- Collaborate with peers through available tools (e.g., email, on-line conferences, web sites, threaded and other on-line discussions, on-line projects, and telecollaboratives)
- Use FTP to send or retrieve files from remote computers
- Configure and use specialized e-mail external mail lists relevant to professional information needs
- Use of Internet and email is aligned with curriculum standards
Achieving Skills
- Configure and use specialized email lists within the district
- Effectively use distance learning, to provide instructional and professional development opportunities to students and staff
- Use of Internet and online resources as supplementary educational tools
- Use electronic mail and web browser applications for communications and for research to support instruction
- Effectively use Internet/Intranet
Progressing Skills
- Install and configure Internet software
- Use a web browser to access and use resources on DPS Net, the Internet and World Wide Web
- Telnet to a remote computer on the Internet
- Connect to, and use resources from DPS Library Resources and DPS Web Site
- Use electronic mail (compose, send, retrieve, read, reply to sender, reply to all, and forward)
- Attach files to email messages
- Retrieve and use attachments (e.g., view, read, save, and print)
- Create and use group addresses for electronic mail
- Conduct research and evaluate on-line sources of information that support and enhance the curriculum
- Understand difference between Internet/Intranet
Foundation Skills
- Awareness of online resources available for teacher and student use
- Know how to create outgoing messages and retrieve messages using the DPS telephone voicemail system
Media Communications and Integration
Target Skills
- Use imaging devices such as scanners, digital cameras, and/or video cameras with computer systems and software
- Use a file compression utility
- Input and digitize sound from microphone and audiocassette player/recorder
- Create multimedia presentations using advanced features of a presentation tool and deliver them using computer projection systems
Achieving Skills
- Edit a video tape
- Identify, select, and integrate video and digital images in varying formats for use in lessons and presentations
- Create more advanced animations using multimedia authoring tools
- Use a computer projection device to support and deliver oral presentations and lessons"
Progressing Skills
- Connect computer to other output devices(VCR)
- Produce a videotape
- Create a basic project or presentation using Multimedia Authoring tools(Kid Pix, Claris Slide Show, Hyperstudio, Power Point)
- Create simple animations
- Observe demonstrations or uses of broadcast instruction, audio/video conferencing, and other distant learning applications
Foundation Skills
- Set up and operate video media (e.g., videotape recorders, laser disk players, and digital video disk (DVD)
- Understand the use of basic multimedia authoring tools(Kid Pix, Claris Slide Show, Hyperstudio, Power Point)
- Connect computer to a television set for presentations
- Observe demonstrations or uses of broadcast instruction, audio/video conferencing, and other distant learning applications
Integration of Technology Into Standards-Based Curriculum
Target Skills
- Identify and use software in a classroom setting to enhance:
- student and teacer productivity
- information access/ telecommunications
- multimedia and evaluation/portfolios
- computer-based instruction for student learning activities
- the integration of technology into standards-based curriculum
Achieving Skills
- Explore, evaluate, and use computer/technology resources including applications, tools, educational software in support of standards-based curriculum
- Design and implement integrated technology classroom activities that involve teaming and/or small group collaboration
- Select and create learning experiences that are appropriate for curriculum goals, relevant to learners and based upon principles of effective teaching and learning
- Incorporate the use of media and technology for teaching where appropriate
- Support learner expression in a variety of media using a variety of media communication tools
Progressing Skills
- Apply specific-purpose electronic devices (such as, a graphing calculator, language translator, scientific probeware, or electronic thesaurus) in appropriate content areas
- Identify and use information access and telecommunication tools to support research and instruction throughout a standards-based curriculum
- Utilize district curriculum guidelines to assist students in accessing, understanding, and using information resources
- Develop and use lesson plans which advance students' place in the continuation of technical skills"
Foundation Skills
- Identify and use national, state, and local guidelines to develop curriculum plans for integrating technology in the K-12 environment and a K-12 standards-based curriculum
- Locate, evaluate, and select appropriate teaching/learning resources and curriculum materials for the content area and target audience, including computer-based products, videotapes and discs, local experts, primary documents and artifacts, texts, reference books, literature, and other print sources
- Access and use resources for planning and instruction via the Internet and other telecommunications channels
Design and Management of Learning Environments and Resources
Target Skills
- Develop instructional units that involve compiling, organizing, analyzing, and synthesizing of information and use technology to support these processes
- Develop and manage a learning environment that incorporates project-based learning and collaboration among students
- Develop and manage a learning environment that incorporates technology to support student-based learning
- Provide mentoring and sharing of new technology skills with colleages to increase collaboration and meet the needs of students
Achieving Skills
- Design, deliver, and assess student learning activities that integrate computers/technology for a variety of student grouping strategies and for diverse student populations
- Design and practice methods and strategies for teaching problem solving principles and skills using technology resources
- Design and practce methods and strategies for incorporating technology to foster a learning environment that supports active student learning
- Learn and use new technology skills, strategies, or software to meet the needs of students and enhance instruction
Progressing Skills
- Use computers to support problem solving, data collection, information management, communications, presentations, and decision making
- Identify computer and related technology resources for facilitating lifelong learning and emerging roles of the learner and the educator
- Select appropriate tools for communicating concepts, conducting research, and solving problems for an intended audience and purpose
- Design and practice methods and strategies for teaching concepts and skills:
- related to computers and related technologies
- for applying productivity tools
- for applying information access and delivery tools
- Use computers and other technologies effectively and appropriately to communicate information in a variety of formats on student learning to colleagues, parents, and others
- Knowledge Areas:
- Resources available including videotapes, satellite TV, cable TV, community information systems and wireless networks
Foundation Skills
- Use computers and other technologies effectively and appropriately to collect information on student learning using a variety of methods
- Demonstrate awareness of appropriate local, state, and national services or resources to meet diverse learning needs through technology
- Knowledge Areas:
- Physical settings that support active students involvement, inquiry, and collaboration
- Organizational and management strategies that support active student involvement, inquiry and collaboration
Student Development, Learning and Diversity
Target Skills
- Design, deliver, and assess student learning activities that integrate computers/technology for a variety of student group strategies and for diverse student populations
Achieving Skills
- Use student learning activities that integrate computers/technology for a variety of student group strategies and for diverse student populations
- Identify and use adaptive assistive hardware and software for students with special needs (GT, LD, EMD, ESL, or At-Risk students)
Progressing Skills
- Use media and technology to address differences in children's learning and performance
- Use media and technology to support learning for children with special needs
- Use media and technology to support learning for children whose primary language is not English
- Use appropriate local, state, and national services or resources to meet diverse learning needs through technology
Foundation Skills
- Demonstrate awareness of resources for adaptive assistive devices for student with special needs
- Knowledge Areas:
- Understand that modifications in computers and input and output devices are possible to enable all individuals, regardless of their disabilities, to create, manipulate, store, and distribute information"
Social, Legal, and Ethical Issues
Target Skills
Achieving Skills
- Advocate the practice of responsible, ethical and legal use of technology, information, and software resources
- Advocate the design of student learning activities that foster equitable, ethical, and legal use of technology by students
- Advocate the practice of abiding to school district policies, procedures, and federal law to ensure compliance with copyright laws and fair-use guidelines
Progressing Skills
- Design and use student learning activities that foster equitable, ethical, and legal use of technology by students
- Abide to school district policies, procedures, and federal law and continue to practice responsible, ethical, and legal use of technology, information, and software resources
Foundation Skills
- Follow school district policies and procedures to ensure students' safety
- Ensure equal access to media and technology resources for students regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, religion, or social-economic status
- Practice of responsible, ethical and legal use of technology, information, and software resources
- Properly site/credit technology resources
- Demonstrate knowledge of student learning activities that foster equitable, ethical, and legal use of technology by students
- Abide to school district policies (District Internet Use Agreement), procedures, and federal law to ensure compliance with copyright laws and fair-use guidelines (legal use of software and video resources)