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Week Two Professional Memberships Sandra Cannon Scott
I have joined the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) because of its prominence for more
than two decades of service as one of twenty-two national organizations charged with developing the
standards that the National Council for Accreditation of
Teacher Education (NCATE) uses to accredit colleges of education
throughout the United States. I have led
units at public and private institutions of higher learning in their successful
initial accreditations of teacher education programs by NCATE. Joining the ISTE allows me to become a part
of an organization that has helped to transform teacher preparation programs through its
standards to integrate technology into learning, teaching, and leading. During my first decade of teaching, I was a
secondary computer literacy educator.
Now that I am an aspiring school superintendent, being a part of the
ISTE means that I will have come full circle as a technology educator.
Benefits
that I have gained by joining the ISTE include the following:
- Eight digital issues of Learning and Leading
- Access to books, bundles, and NET products
- Access to archives, online courses, webinars, journals, professional development,
news feeds, and fact sheets
- Access to Online Store with Virtual
Products including webinars, online courses, Podcasts, Top Ten Books
- Membership Opportunities ranging from
the Young Educator Network to Retirees
- Learning Communities
- Special Interest Groups
- ISTE Connects Blog
- ISTE Community Ning
- ISTE Conference Ning
- Second Life
- Links to Facebook, LinkedIn, Wikispaces,
and Twitter
- Elections
- ISTE Mobile
- Career Center
- Ambassador Program
- Australia Study Tour
- Events Calendar
- Publications
- Research and Evaluation
- Computational Thinking
- Coaching White Paper
- Reports
- NETS for Students, Teachers,
Administrators, Coaches, Computer Science Teachers,
- NCATE
- Global Reach
- Seal of Alignment
- Leadership Conference
- ISTE Annual Conference
I
have also joined the International Reading Association (IRA), a nonprofit, global network of
individuals and institutions committed to worldwide literacy for more than half
of a century. I am three years older than the IRA, and it is the professional
organization to which my late mother belonged.
Joining this organization allows me to continue her legacy in a way that
she and I never imagined during her lifetime.
More
than 70,000 members strong, the Association supports literacy professionals through
a wide range of resources, advocacy efforts, volunteerism, and professional
development activities. Our members promote high levels of literacy for all by:
Improving the quality of reading instruction
Disseminating research and information about
reading
Encouraging the lifetime reading habit
Benefits that I have gained by joining the IRA include access
to the following resources:
- Reading Today at no additional cost
- The Reading Teacher Online at the student discount rate
of $14.00, and the Journal
of Adolescent & Adult Literacy Online at the student discount rate
of $14.00.
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