6 NOTE FOR TEACHER EDUCATORS The Avenue Instructor Standards for TELL target a sector that is populated largely by professional teachers with advanced degrees in TESL or a related field and in some cases many years of teaching experience. The standards are thus aimed at providing guidance for these teachers and the programs that employ them to improve their competence and confidence in integrating technology effectively in their online and blended language classes. It is meant to augment, not replace, whatever foundations of theory, research, and practice they may have received in their formal teacher education programs and subsequent professional development. Because these instructors have limited time available to accomplish this task, we have focused on producing standards that we believe are useful and achievable for most of them, along with support materials to connect to the realities of settlement language teaching. These standards provide a foundation for what should be an ongoing journey for language instructors in integrating technology in their careers. Teacher educators in master’s and certificate programs working with teachers and teacher candidates over multiple semesters will be able to integrate technology throughout the curriculum in a more robust and comprehensive manner than we can reasonably—and humanely—offer here. Those who provide professional development webinars and workshops can consider how these standards might fit into current and future offerings. Developments in artificial intelligence will need to be incorporated into teacher education programs and teacher training. The standards urge instructors, administrators, and learners to collaborate on crafting policies about how AI can and should be used, and how it should not be used. Similarly, teacher educators and trainers should work with their learners and administrators to design and revise AI policies as the technology continues to develop. We are grateful to teacher educators who offered feedback on earlier versions of these standards. A number of their suggestions have been incorporated in support and supplementary materials. The standards are being released with a CC-BY-NC-SA license so that anyone can freely adapt and add to them as they see fit to meet the needs of their particular contexts. CC-BY-NC-SA 2025 New Language Solutions Avenue Instructor Standards for Technology-Enhanced Language Learning, version 1.2
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