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.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Traditional forms of professional development (PD) such as “sit and get,” one-size-fits-all, and trainings lacking accountability have proven obsolete. Digital tools now allow for professional learning to take place anytime, anywhere, and with anyone.

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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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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

It has become increasingly possible to personalize learning–adapt resources and assessments to student skills and needs and differentiate lessons that are pushed out to individual students or small groups ( read: Shifting my Teacher Mindset with Micro-credentials ). personalized. Not anymore. Click to view slideshow.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 4, 2019

So, I think going back we would have had parallel, interlocking coaching and work and training on moving from that teacher-centered to student-centered model…and using the tech to really accelerate that.”. The district was one of three schools recognized nationally by ISTE for its digital badge program. Join the Community.

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MindShift

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

But these elements are rarely applied to professional development. School districts spend a lot of money on trainings for educators, but the returns on that investment are not always clear. Two reviewers look at the evidence a teacher submits, and if they don’t agree a third person breaks the tie.

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Hack Education

JULY 1, 2016

” She promises that every kid will learn to code (of course) by having the private sector train CS teachers. ” “The University of Tennessee ’s Health Science Center will no longer use live animals to train medical students,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reports. Her “ innovation agenda.”

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