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Shifting My Teacher Mindset with Micro-credentials

Digital Promise

It’s incredible to look back at where I started as a new teacher and see how much my pedagogy and practice have changed since then. One of the biggest reasons for my growth as an educator has been competency-based learning. What an incredible way for teachers to learn and grow professionally.

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Empowering Educators of Refugees as Teachers and Learners

Digital Promise

Our first micro-credential supports Sustainable Learning Design for Refugee Educators and promotes shifts in the top-down technocratic approach in education to a more responsive, connected, and contextualized practice. This is a unique moment in teaching and learning, and this moment is ours to seize.

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The Professional Development Problem

EdNews Daily

Parallel statistics on teacher job satisfaction, down nearly 25%, daily stress, up around 50%, and the majority of learning coming from colleagues on the job (Harvard Report), tells us the 68 hours/year and 18k/teacher for PD is lacking. Professional Learning (skills, knowledge, theory). With research from the U.S.

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Implementing an Effective Learner-Centered Approach

edWeb.net

Shifting from an industrial-age education model to a post-industrial learner-centered model is an essential part of preparing students for college and 21 st century careers, and the process works best when the learner-centered approach is applied to the professional learning of teachers and administrators, as well as the education of their students.

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Flipsnack: A fun way to make interactive online magazines #edtech

The CoolCatTeacher

Learn how she uses this tool. FlexPath – only at Capella University – lets teachers work at their own pace to earn their MEd in a competency-based learning format. Vicki: Ok, so how can a teacher get started with FlipSnack without getting overwhelmed? How to get started.

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What Does a School Need to Enable Learning Based on Student Competency?

MindShift

A CompetencyWorks report, “Maximizing Competency Education and Blended Learning: Insights from Experts,” looks at ways that the movement for personalization dovetails with blended learning and competency-based learning to achieve a more student-centered approach to school.

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5 Ideas for Fantastic Professional Development

The CoolCatTeacher

FlexPath – only at Capella University – lets teachers work at their own pace to earn their MEd in a competency-based learning format. This subscription-based tuition model doesn’t limit the number of courses you can complete during each 12-week period, enrolling in up to two courses at once, for one flat tuition rate.