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Can Micro-credentials Create More Meaningful Professional Development For Teachers? | M... - 0 views

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shared by Meghan Cureton on 16 Feb 17 - No Cached

Learning science says people learn best when they apply new information to their own contexts.
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The ability to try it right away in my classroom and to get feedback from my colleagues and the person running the micro-credential was really important
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He likes that he can choose to earn micro-credentials in areas of his practice where he wants to improve and that he can complete them with flexibility, contributing when he has time.
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In Kettle Moraine teachers can earn $200, $400 or $600 toward their base pay, depending on the type of micro-credential. The district allows teachers to take courses through outside nonprofits like Digital Promise, district-created micro-credentials or individually proposed credentials. The micro-credential must be pre-approved in order to count toward compensation, so that district leadership can keep an eye on costs.
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Kettle Moraine, a small suburban Wisconsin district about 30 miles west of Milwaukee, has taken the lead on micro-credentials.
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San Lorenzo School District
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Tennessee is currently piloting micro-credentials as a pathway toward relicensure with 60 teachers.
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Seminole County Public Schools is also looking at how micro-credentials could shake up existing models of professional development
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Leaders in this movement don’t want micro-credentials to be confused with digital badges, essentially a gold star without a lot behind it, or a rubber stamp. Instead, they hope the ecosystem will evolve so that states and districts will be able to identify high-quality courses from the rest and the micro-credential itself will be a form of currency for teachers to demonstrate their knowledge and skills.
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Competency based learning key characteristic: Outcomes-based - Blackboard Blog - 0 views

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The old concepts of quizzes, mid-term exams and final exams change from methods of judgment to an assessment system designed to help learners construct knowledge through a learn-practice-assess pathway.
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Achieve short-term and long-term academic performance improvements focused on outcomes rather than inputs
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Student learning outcomes are generally at the same level of granularity as competencies, and sometimes the terms are used interchangeably. A competency is a specific skill, knowledge, or ability that is both observable and measurable
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Institutional outcomes
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Program outcomes
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Student learning outcomes
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For example, a team project that requires analyzing the business impacts of population shifts demonstrates realistic problem solving, and the assessment could even be embedded in a work context. This type of assessment requires more thorough demonstration of competencies than an objective assessment, which is typically delivered as a test with pre-determined right and wrong answers. Authentic assessment also provides learner-centric benefits such as collaboration with peers and genuinely valuable evidence of learning that can be used in a professional profile.
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For example, an assessment could be aligned to competencies, occupational skills, program outcomes, and accreditation standards. The same assessment can award a badge for mastery achievement, show students the occupational skills they’ve demonstrated, and also roll up into evidence collection for accreditation and program improvement purposes
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can optionally be shown to students
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Consistent use of rubrics enables learner choice, since learners could be working on different assessments to master the same competencies
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And when competency based education programs differentiate instructional roles, such that faculty subject matter experts might not be evaluating assessments, specialized assessors can all apply the same definitions of competencies by using the same rubrics.
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