To qualify for a District ISS (Educational Technologist position, applicants must qualify under one of two pathways. Pathway A or Pathway B as outlined below:
Pathway A:
1. Minimum Education Requirement: A Master's degree in the field of Education. The course work must have been completed at or accepted by a regionally accredited U.S. college or university.
The undergraduate/graduate level course work must have included study in at least three of the following five areas:
- Learning theory, psychology of learning, educational psychology: Study of learning theories as they relate to the systematic design, development, and validation of instructional material.
- Instructional design practices: Study of the principles and techniques used in designing training programs, developing design strategy and models, and applying design methods to the improvement of instructional effectiveness.
- Educational evaluation: Study of the techniques for evaluating the effectiveness of instructional/educational programs, including developing written and performance tests and survey instruments, and determining reliability and validity of evaluation instruments.
- Instructional product development: Study of the techniques appropriate for developing training materials, including identifying learner characteristics, specifying objectives, applying training strategy, validating training materials, and evaluating training.
- Computers in education and training: Study of the application of computers in education and training.
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2. Professional Licensure/Certification Requirement: Must either be certified or certifiable under the current DoDEA standards in any PK-12 endorsement area. Information on
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Must either be certified or certifiable under the current DoDEA standards for Educational Technologist (category 0485) as noted below:
A major in Instructional Technology OR a minimum of 18 semester hours (SH) of instructional technology-related course work. The 18 SH are divided into two general categories - instructional courses and technology courses.
Instructional courses must be distributed in at least three (9 SH) of the following instructional areas:
- Instructional design
- Distance education
- Integration of technology into curriculum
- Planning for technology
- Assessment of technology
- Technology and special needs
- Staff development
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Technology courses must be distributed in at least three (9 SH) of the following technology areas:
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- Web and/or graphics design
- Contemporary programming languages
- Multimedia
- Digital video
- Internet in classroom
- Databases
- Local and/or wide area networks in instructional settings
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4. Specialized Experience Requirement (5 years): Specialized experience is experience gained in teaching, educational research, development of educational materials and aids, educational testing, educational administration, or comparable activities in an elementary and/or secondary school, which has clearly demonstrated success in the application of principles, methods, and techniques of education and familiarity with current developments in PK-12th grade education and training. A minimum of 3 years of specialized experience as an Educational Technologist at the school level is required.
Pathway B:
1. Minimum Education Requirement: A Master's degree in the field of Education. The course work must have been completed at or accepted by a regionally accredited U.S. college or university.
The undergraduate/graduate level course work must have included study in at least three of the following five areas:
- Learning theory, psychology of learning, educational psychology: Study of learning theories as they relate to the systematic design, development, and validation of instructional material.
- Instructional design practices: Study of the principles and techniques used in designing training programs, developing design strategy and models, and applying design methods to the improvement of instructional effectiveness.
- Educational evaluation: Study of the techniques for evaluating the effectiveness of instructional/educational programs, including developing written and performance tests and survey instruments, and determining reliability and validity of evaluation instruments.
- Instructional product development: Study of the techniques appropriate for developing training materials, including identifying learner characteristics, specifying objectives, applying training strategy, validating training materials, and evaluating training.
- Computers in education and training: Study of the application of computers in education and training.
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Must present at least 9 semester hours of undergraduate/graduate level instructional/technology course work such as:
- Instructional design
- Distance education
- Planning for technology
- Technology and special needs
- Staff development
- Web and/or graphics design
- Contemporary programming languages
- Databases
- Local and /or wide area networks in instructional settings
2. Professional Licensure/Certification Requirement: Must either be certified or certifiable under the current DoDEA standards in any PK-12 endorsement area.
3. Specialized Experience Requirement (5 years): Specialized experience is experience gained in teaching, educational research, development of educational materials and aids, educational testing, educational administration, or comparable activities in an elementary and/or secondary school, which has clearly demonstrated success in the application of principles, methods, and techniques of education and familiarity with current developments in PK-12th grade education and training. A minimum of 3 years of specialized experience as an Educational Technologist at the district or above school level is required.