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Instructional Technology Programs

Enhance Your Teaching Career with One of Our Instructional Technology Specialist Licenses or Certificate Programs

Are you looking to create an interactive classroom? Do you want to integrate emerging technologies with learning environments? Instructional technology specialist jobs are a growing, high-need area in Massachusetts. The instructional technology programs from Bridgewater State University's Department of Elementary and Early Childhood Education will give you the skills to support districts, schools, and other educators in this essential field.

Instructional Technology Specialist (ITS) license for K-12 educators: This high-need area in Massachusetts is growing. The ITS license from Bridgewater State University will give you the skills to support districts, schools, and other educators in this essential field. Offered through the Department of Elementary and Early Childhood Education, the ITS licensure program is one of two higher ed institutions that are fully approved by the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) to offer this licensure program for K-12 teachers.

Three of the Instructional Technology Specialist program courses are approved by DESE as meeting all the Subject Matter Knowledge (SMK) areas for DESE’s Prek-6 Digital Literacy and Computer Science License. Contact Tracy Charbonnier or Joanne McDonald to find out more information.

ITS Certificate Program, Supporting All Learners Using Instructional Technology: This is and option for PreK-12 teachers who wish to advance their pedagogical, ed tech skills, and professional growth. Participants select applications and devices using ed tech frameworks, design active learning UDL environments, experience ready-to-use classroom activities and projects, and engage in collaborative global projects addressing real-world issues and activities.

Instructional Technology Specialist Licensure Highlights

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Learn from the Experts

As you earn your instructional technology specialist license at BSU, you’ll learn from faculty with real-world classroom and instructional technology experience. These experts are all members of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), MassCUE and other professional organizations specializing in this field. They are leaders in educational areas such as Universal Design for Learning; Project-Based Learning; Diversity, Equity and Inclusion; Robotics, Computer Science and more.

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Gain Experience

All courses are delivered in an asynchronous, flexible, online setting using a robust curriculum delivered by experienced ITS and STEM educators. Participants select applications and devices using EdTech frameworks, design active learning UDL environments, create authentic ready-to-use classroom activities and projects, and engage in collaborative global projects addressing real-world issues.

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Small Virtual Classes

This individualized learning online environment provides you with one-on-one time with instructors and the chance to network and collaborate with fellow graduate students within a community of learners.

Learn on your schedule

Your instructional technology specialist classes are completed fully online. This provides you with flexibility as you earn your license or certificate within the ITS field.

Programs that align with state requirements

BSU is one of two higher ed institutions that are fully approved by the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) to offer this licensure program for K-12 teachers.

Program of Study for Instructional Technology Specialist Licensure

Our instructional technology specialist post-baccalaureate program provides a foundation in educational technology and then builds on knowledge attained through previous experiences. Students work in pairs or groups as we learn best from and with each other.

Learning Science Strategies such as retrieval, spaced practice, dual coding, etc., are taught, modeled, and applied to share within future coaching experiences as best practices for teaching and learning. Using a student-centered approach again provides a model for future coaching and facilitating shifting practices of the student as a listener and follower to one of a planner who is resourceful, goal-oriented, and unafraid to ask questions in guiding their own learning.

  • The Foundations course sets the stage for topics and practices presented within the program. Collaborative learning activities, authentic products, ed tech models and frameworks, UDL, strategies for ALL learners, digital apps, laws, coding, decoding, and instructional practices are addressed, building that foundation for future courses.
  • Creating an active environment where ALL learners can succeed happens during our Instructional Design course. Again, through collaborative tasks, educators produce authentic classroom-ready activities such as Choice Boards and 360° interactive videos that are UDL and DEI compliant, incorporating flexible and multilingual apps, where students have voice and choice in how they learn and express what they know.
  • Designing student-centered learning environments where students engage in real-world research assignments with global collaborators happens in our Online Teaching and Learning course. Practicing safe online protocols and abiding by district guidelines and ethical practices enlighten K-12 students and practicing educators when preparing lessons for your own classroom teaching.
  • During our Emerging Technologies and Learning Environments course, you will explore, play and create VR and Mixed-Reality learning adventures. You will also investigate AI and discover its impact on teaching and learning.
  • Compose and decompose animation programs, interactive stories or robotic tasks while planning lessons for student collaborators to learn with and from each other as they plan their own programming adventures. Then develop your own classroom makerspace center recording student growth as part of the Coding and Robotics Across the Curriculum.

Qualify for Your PreK-6 Digital Literacy and Computer Science (DLCS) License

Did you know that BSU's Instructional Technology Specialist programs incorporate all subject matter knowledge concepts and skills for DESE’s new PreK-6 DLCS license? When you complete the courses INST 509, INST 523 and INST 530, you will qualify to apply for the license. This license is for those educators who wish to focus on incorporating these skills within their classroom or leading elementary teachers and schools in the exciting areas of coding, robotics, and design thinking. At this time, BSU is the only MA higher ed institution approved for this license.

Admission Requirements and Program Details

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Program details from 2024-2025 Undergraduate/Graduate Catalog

Program Coordinator: Ms. Tracy Charbonnier
Associate Program Coordinator: Ms. Joanne McDonald

Programs Related to Instructional Technology Programs

At BSU, we offer a variety of and graduate certificates, including:

Bilingual Education Graduate Certificate and Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages Graduate Certificate
Digital Technology for Educators Graduate Certificate
Secondary Education, Postbaccalaureate Licensure (APB, PB)

Careers for Instructional Technology Specialists

BSU can help you meet your personal and professional goals in your instructional technology specialist job search. This program is formally approved by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, leading to an initial stage Instructional Technology Specialist License.

The average Instructional Technology Specialist salary in Massachusetts is

$72,441

according to Salary.com

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Bridgewater offers competitive tuition and fees for graduate students both in and out of state.

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