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Learning Transformed Course

A Principal's Reflections

The most important aspect of this course is pushing learners to not only reflect on their own practice but to also develop focused plans to take action through constructivist learning theory. Course Description The Learning Transformed course is designed to support your classroom, district or school's transformation efforts!

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How Microcredentials Help Educators Develop New Tech Skills

EdTech Magazine

Traditionally, that requires educators to take courses, whether in the classroom or online. . In efforts to make time-mandated and compliance-based professional learning efficient, technology offers microcredentialing as a vehicle for educators to pursue personal growth. Open New Doors for Teachers in the Classroom.

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How Micro-Credentials Support Professional Learning

edWeb.net

Now, organizations like Digital Promise have developed micro-credential programs, which recognize educators for acquiring new skills. The goal of micro-credentials, according to Younge, is to capture the educator demonstrating these skills and provide their schools with evidence of the professional learning.

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Using Micro-credentials for Personalized Professional Development

Digital Promise

Using available micro-credentials from Digital Promise, each educator can create a personalized professional development plan that builds on the expertise they feel they most need in the classroom and in our schools. A common need across the ACT Network schools is the need for personalized professional learning.

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Edthena Adds Micro-Credentials to Help Districts Recognize Teacher Growth

eSchool News

SAN FRANCISCO (April 14, 2021) – Micro-credentials provide districts an innovative way to recognize teachers’ exemplar skills while allowing teachers to show their mastery of teaching skills via a digital badge. However, many districts don’t pursue this professional learning approach because they think it is too complex to get started.

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Issuing Micro-Credentials to Your Teachers Can Reward Competency

Edthena

Micro-credentials are an emerging method for helping teachers document their professional learning. They offer districts an innovative way to document teachers’ skills while allowing the teachers to share their progress with others via a digital badge. Now these barriers are eliminated.

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It’s Time to Remake the Makerspace, But Schools Shouldn’t Go It Alone

Edsurge

In too many of our schools, we see that administrators perceive makerspaces as environments for play rather than opportunities for enriching assessment that can indicate students’ readiness for the workforce. Yet there are still barriers that we must overcome if we hope to realize the full potential of makerspaces.