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abstract

  • Since 2017, the NC Department of Public Instruction's Digital Teaching and Learning Division has been implementing the Digital Learning Competencies (DLCs) for school administrators and teachers. The Digital Learning Competencies for Administrators are to be viewed within the context of the current North Carolina Standards for School Executives as extensions in relationship with the ways that digital technologies impact and affect schools. School and district administrators should use these competencies to improve their practice, build capacity in their staff, and drive student learning within their schools. Throughout all of the competencies is the underlying assumption of leadership and excellence with regard to digital citizenship. Additionally, administrators should model the behavior they expect from their staff and students and should continually seek to represent their schools and districts with the way they convey themselves both on and offline. Teachers and administrators should use the competencies to improve practice and drive student learning within their classrooms.Through discussions with NC classroom educators, school administrators, and higher education faculty, we have identified a gap in practice. School administrators feel they are underprepared and/or unprepared to adequately evaluate teachers on implementation of the DLCs into the classroom. Therefore, graduate faculty in the department of mathematics, science and instructional technology education determined the needs of creating a certificate to support school administrators to understand the DLC and identify best practices assessing classroom teachers implementing the digital competencies.

date/time interval

  • January 2018 - January 2019