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Texas School Technology and Readiness Chart
The Texas STaR Chart is a self-assessment tool that helps schools evaluate their progress in integrating technology across four key areas aligned...
ACOT Model - Stages of Technology Integration
The ACOT model outlines five stages—Entry, Adoption, Adaptation, Appropriation, and Invention—that describe teachers’ evolving use of...
The TPACK Framework Explained (With Classroom Examples)
This article explains how the TPACK framework helps educators blend content, pedagogy, and technology to design engaging, effective lessons, with...
The Technology Integration Matrix
The TIM framework uses five levels of technology integration across five characteristics of meaningful learning (active, collaborative, constructive,...
The PICRAT Model for Technology Integration
The PICRAT model combines student engagement (Passive, Interactive, Creative) with instructional impact (Replacement, Amplification, Transformation)...
The SAMR Model: A Powerful Model for Understanding Good Tech Integration
This article emphasizes that effective technology integration is about choosing the right tools and strategies for learning goals, using the SAMR...
SAMR and TPACK: Two Models to Help with Integrating Technology Into Courses
This resource explains how the SAMR model (Substitution, Augmentation, Modification, Redefinition) and the TPACK framework (Technological,...
K-12 Technology Frameworks
This resource provides an overview of widely used technology integration models (like SAMR, TPACK, and TIM) to guide effective tech use in K–12...
High Quality Project Based Learning
HQPBL defines six essential criteria—like authenticity, collaboration, and reflection—for ensuring student-centered, high-quality project-based...
Gold Standard PBL: Project Based Teaching Practices
Gold Standard PBL outlines seven research-based teaching practices that support rigorous, student-centered project-based learning.
How to Use the 5E Model in Your Classroom
The 5E model helps science teachers design inquiry-based lessons that connect students’ experiences to scientific concepts through exploration and...
STEM Instructional Approaches - 5E Model 2
NASA’s 5E model supports constructivist learning through a sequence of inquiry-based phases that guide students from curiosity to application and...
STEM Instructional Approaches - 5E Model 1
The 5E Model (Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, Evaluate) structures science instruction around inquiry and active learning to deepen conceptual...
Activity, Project, Problem-Based (APB) Instructional Approach
PLTW’s APB model blends structured activities, real-world projects, and open-ended problems to scaffold student learning and foster critical...
Getting Started with Project-Based Learning
This resource distinguishes project-based learning as a collaborative, real-world product-focused process, while problem-based learning centers on...
STEM Instructional Approach Models: Project-Based Learning
Project-Based Learning engages students in extended, collaborative inquiry to solve real-world problems, emphasizing process over product and...
Problem-Based Learning
Problem-Based Learning (PBL) is a student-centered approach where learners collaboratively solve open-ended problems to develop critical thinking,...
STEM Resources in the Indiana Learning Lab
IDOE has curated a list of resources that are in the Indiana Learning Lab to assist schools with different aspects of STEM integration.
STEM Certified Schools Toolkit: Teacher Qualifications and PD Worksheet
Schools seeking to become a STEM Certified School should use this worksheet to document teacher qualifications and PD per the STEM Certification...
STEM Certified Schools Toolkit: Secondary Guidance
The Secondary STEM Certified Schools Guidance provides high schools with expectations, processes, and supports to build comprehensive STEM programs...
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