Certificate of Achievement in Emerging Technology Leadership

 

The Certificate of Achievement for Leadership in Transformative Education is designed for students working in or planning for a leadership career in K-12 education, extracurricular programs, or edtech development in for-profit and nonprofit organizations. If the student is in K-12 education, this program will prepare them to be a teacher leader, but it will not have a focus in school or district administration. The program provides 18 units of instruction and support for the integration of edtech throughout a specified curriculum in a culturally responsive manner. Courses will focus on technology integration into all lessons, evaluating instructional programs, and data analysis tools. Upon completion of the program, students will be prepared to develop and support edtech initiatives in their districts, schools, counties, and communities as well as provide relevant workshops and courses in Education Technology instruction.

In the first year, there are projected to be  30 students who complete the certificate. After the first year, there will be two cohorts of 30 students. After five years, approximately 270 students will have completed the program. This projection is based on data from student participation in the Krause Center for Innovation’s FAME and EMPowered programs over the past decade. 

Program Learning Outcomes:

●    Students will be able to identify effective education technology for schools and districts.

●    Students will be able to develop instructional materials that incorporate education technology.

●    Students will be able to apply education technology to project-based learning.

●    Students will be able to create multimedia projects that integrate cloud-based publishing tools.

●    Students will be able to use online collaboration tools to enhance instruction and communication.

●    Students will be able to integrate technology into a standards-based curriculum.

●    Students will be able to facilitate interactions and collaboration to build a community that fosters active learning.

●    Students will be able to curate and create instructional materials, tools, strategies, and resources to engage all learners and ensure achievement goals.

●    Students will be able to use culturally responsive practices when integrating education technology into their lessons.

●    Students will be able to create training materials that focus on best practices using education technology.

●    Students will be able to plan, facilitate, and assess a project on the use of educational technology in their school, district, and/or organization.

●    Students will be able to identify the positive and negative use cases of individual educational technology.

●    Students will be able to facilitate large group professional development around the best practices of educational technology.

●    Students will be able to professionally present a project completed by themselves to their peers and executives.

●    Students will be able to understand current research and effectively convey that to their school, district, and/or organization.

 

What knowledge and skills will students acquire as part of their participation in the program?

 

The Certificate of Achievement for Leadership in Transformative Education is designed for experienced educators, Teachers on Special Assignment, department chairs, and educator coaches. The focus of the program will be on developing teacher leaders though project-based learning. Participants will analyze and apply research in teacher leadership Skills learned include the ability to identify high quality products to integrate into instruction, differentiated pedagogy depending on edtech use cases, and best practices for supporting their peers with the use and development of edtech. Upon completion of the program, students will be prepared to support any and all edtech initiatives in their districts, schools, or counties as well as provide relevant workshops and courses in edtech use and development.

 

Students will be required to complete 13 core units and a combination of 5 elective units. 

Requirements	Course #	Title	Units	Sequence
Core Courses(13 units)	LINC 50	Technology in the K-12 Classroom I	1	Year 1, Fall
	LINC 82B	Developing Instructional Materials	3	Year 1, Fall
	LINC 82C	Creating Interactive Media for Instruction	3	Year 1, Winter
	LINC 83F	Introduction to Digital Video Editing	1	Year 1, Spring
	LINC 87	Seminar in Teaching With Education Technology	5	Year 1, Spring
Restricted Electives(5 units)	LINC 50A	Technology in the K-12 Classroom II	0.5	Year 1, Spring
	LINC 50F	Integrating Technology Into a Standards Based Curriculum I	2	Year 1, Spring
	LINC 57	Designing Learner-Centered Instruction	1	Year 1, Fall
	LINC 58	Global Project-based Learning	2	Year 1, Winter
	LINC 62	Cloud-based Word Processing Tools	1	Year 1, Winter
	LINC 66E	Cloud-based Publishing Tools	1	Year 1, Spring
	LINC 75B	Instructional Technology Strategies	3	Year 1, Fall
	LINC 79	Multimedia Project Production	2	Year 1, Fall
	LINC 80	Multimedia Overview
	LINC 80A	Multimedia in the Classroom I	1	Year 1, Winter
	LINC 80B	Multimedia in the Classroom II	0.5	Year 1, Spring
	LINC 81	Using Digital Images	1	Year 1, Fall
	LINC 82A	Introduction to Designing Instructional Technology Projects	3	Year 1, Fall
	LINC 90C	Online Collaboration Tools	2	Year 1, Winter
	LINC 95C	Assessment Strategies for Technology Integration	1	Year 1, Spring

Currently, Foothill College offers the Certificate of Achievement in Instructional Design and Technology. The program focuses on multimedia, graphic design, and instructional design with technology. It consists of 27 units. This particular program would focus solely on instructional design with technology and would provide students with the foundation needed to be a leader in their school, district, or organization as it relates to edtech. This program would be stacked with the Education Technology Specialist Certification.

Per LMI: there are no other programs in our service area that offer this classes in this TOP code.