eMINTS Competencies
4. Inquiry and Innovation: Educator promotes discovery, creativity, inventiveness and innovation in the learning environment.
a. Plans learning activities with a mind-set toward inquiry. Educator encourages learners to explore and discover rather than telling them answers or providing possible solutions. b. Provides opportunities for exploring real-world issues and solving authentic problems. 5. Questioning: Educator creates a learning environment where questioning promotes curiosity, critical thinking, and inquiry. a. Uses a variety of questioning strategies (e.g., asking intriguing questions, demonstrating how to ask complex questions, etc.) to engage learners, guide learning, foster critical thinking and encourage reflection. b. Provides structured opportunities and strategies for learners to generate a variety of questions, classify, analyze and improve their questions to promote complex ideas. c. Uses strategies that encourage learners to consider questions deeply and participate in class conversations (e.g., small-group discussions, think-alouds, think-pair-share). |
ISTE Standards for Educators
5. Educator: Educators design authentic, learner-driven activities and environments that recognize and accommodate learner variability.
b. Design authentic learning activities that align with content area standards and use digital tools and resources to maximize active, deep learning. |
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