Sentences with phrase «microcredentials as»

For example, Tennessee, where Walls and Skae teach, has made significant investments in professional development — and is now looking to microcredentials as a way for teachers to lead their own learning and provide evidence of its effect (Tennessee Department of Education, 2015).

Specific trends include: personalized learning; large - scale initiatives such as Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and 1:1, makerspaces; digital badging / microcredentials as a move toward competency based learning; a redefinition of learning spaces; and the integration of academies and smaller learning communities (schools within a school) to provide more rigorous pathways that cater to the diverse interests of students.

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Often described as bite - sized skill development, microcredentialing «sets Parachute teachers apart from traditional substitute teachers,» Sparks says.

Where microcredentials pertain to teachers rather than students, I think the concept is an outstanding way to do a number of things in the area of professional development: 1) recognize professional learning milestones to inspire continuous improvement; 2) move away from a one - size - fits - all (and oft debunked) approach to salary schedules, which typically depend exclusively on time served and postsecondary attainment; 3) move towards recognition of skill development on an a la carte basis rather than solely as part of an advanced degree program; and 4) generate more personalized and self - paced professional learning opportunities.

Teacher leadership is a focal area for some other microcredentials, such as stacks developed by the Center for Collaborative Education on Performance Assessment Literacy or by the Center for Teaching Quality on Teacher - Powered Schools and Leading Virtual Communities of Practice.

However, the new Educators Rising Academy high school curriculum — which will be piloted in Alaska and Kentucky in 2017 - 18 — will use the Beginning to Teach microcredentialing process as its major assessment.

State officials believe that 25 % of novice teachers will opt into microcredentialing to complement other more traditional options as their route to obtain the professional development points required for licensure advancement.

Throughout the year, the teachers will submit evidence on several Digital Promise microcredentials aligned with the TEAM rubric, focusing on specific areas (such as thinking, questioning, and problem solving) that have previously proven daunting for teachers in the state, as well as for administrators, who have struggled to give constructive feedback in these areas.

Microcredentials home in on a wide variety of competencies, from Teaching Practices for Deeper Learning (issued by Digital Promise) to more traditional pedagogical skills, such as Data Literacy and Wait Time (issued by the Relay Graduate School of Education).

Organizations (such as the Relay Graduate School of Education and the Center for Teaching Quality) that develop microcredentials, assess teachers who apply for them, and issue badges to those who demonstrate mastery;

If microcredentials can be used to personalize education for students — motivating them to improve steadily, at their own pace — the next logical step is to make them available to educators as well.

When students are engaged in earning microcredentials, the rigor of the work and depth of the reflection impress their mentor teachers as well as my colleagues across the district.