ISTE Coach Standard 4.5: Professional Learning Facilitator
Coaches plan, provide, and evaluate professional learning that helps educators and leaders use technology to advance teaching and learning. Richard Styner's evidence includes teacher professional development, mentoring, workshop design, teacher feedback, and classroom implementation support.
Alignment to the Current ISTE Coach Standard
- 4.5.a Design Quality Professional Learning: The online assessment workshop was designed around adult learning, hands-on practice, and immediate classroom application.
- 4.5.b Build Capacity: The workshop and mentoring artifacts helped teachers adopt tools such as online quizzes, video production, and blended learning resources.
- 4.5.c Evaluate Professional Learning Impact: Follow-up feedback from participating teachers and evidence of implementation show attention to impact and improvement.
Richard Styner Portfolio Artifacts
- Online Assessment Professional Development
A teacher PD session focused on formative assessment with online tools. - Video Integration Project
Evidence of teacher support and student video production following coaching. - Silkscreen Tutorial
A digital tutorial created to support classroom instruction and teacher workflow.
Evidence of Impact
These examples demonstrate professional learning that was practical, collaborative, and connected to actual classroom implementation rather than isolated training.
Reflection
The current ISTE Coach Standards emphasize capacity building, sustainable implementation, equity, collaboration, and reflective improvement. This page updates Richard Styner's older ISTE coaching portfolio evidence into that current framework while preserving the original artifacts as evidence of authentic educational technology practice.