NC Educational Technology Competency Requirements
For whom do these North Carolina competencies apply:
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University Faculty: In agreement with the Chair of the State of
Board of Education, the then President of the University System, Dr. Spangler,
set a goal of Teacher Education faculty modeling the application of the
basic competencies listed below in their classroom teaching, beginning
with the fall semester of 1996. Advanced competencies are required as of
the fall of 1997. In our College, the Director of Instructional Technology,
Ben Coulter, is responsible for seeing that these competencies are met.
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Preservice educators: All graduates of state teacher education programs,
including educational leadership programs, are to meet the requirements
of these competencies, including the advanced competencies. A licensure
exam requiring the completion of multiple choice and hands-on tasks covering
these competencies was begun in the spring of 1998, with a pilot exam being
administered the spring of 1997. As of fall, 1999, the hands-on component
was dropped and then a semester later the multiple choice requirement was
dropped.
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Practicing educators: School Districts are responsible for inservicing
state teachers on these competencies. The next 3-5 CEU's that teachers
take for the renewal of their license must be taken in coursework leading
to the meeting of these competencies. The state legislature allocated some
$47 million dollars for 1995-1996 and some $20 million dollars for the
1996-1997 academic year to fund equipment, software and training. The amount
has since then fluctuated considerably depending on state revenues and
other legislative priorities. The state is also broken into administrative
regions, with the state University's charged with coordinating and leading
the training and inservice effort.
State assistance for our Western North Carolina region is provided by:
Mary Lou Daily
Instructional Technology Consultant
Public Schools of North Carolina
Department of Public Instruction
Instructional Technologies Division
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