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eSchool News
AUGUST 31, 2017
While some progress has been made, there is still no standardized means for teachers to develop a portfolio of credentials aligned with the always-evolving set of skills and strategies they bring to their classrooms. Badges help teachers focus on relevant professional developments opportunities because they support personalized learning.
Digital Promise
APRIL 17, 2019
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
MARCH 30, 2021
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.
A Principal's Reflections
FEBRUARY 19, 2017
Planning professional learning – How many of us dreaded professional development (PD) days? Choice In the classroom, agency empowers a shift where students can choose the right tool for the right task to demonstrate conceptual understanding and mastery. Educators should have more choice over how they learn themselves.
eSchool News
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
In a rapidly changing world, educators have been forced to self-examine and come to terms with approaches that are inefficient and irrelevant–from outmoded ways of setting up classrooms to equating school success solely on standardized metrics. Digital tools now allow for professional learning to take place anytime, anywhere, and with anyone.
techlearning
AUGUST 6, 2018
If we have heard it said once, we have heard it said 1,000 times: Professional Development is Broken For every time we have heard that said, we have also heard suggestions on how to fix it. Schools want their educators to learn and grow, but in practice, professional development is innately broken, or even in some situations, nonexistent.
A Principal's Reflections
DECEMBER 21, 2014
First and foremost, make the time to learn, grown, and get better as opposed to finding the time. There is nothing more important to an educator, outside of working with kids, than professional learning. Through social media a Personal Learning Network (PLN) provides a great antidote to the age-old time excuse.
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