Digital Promise

JANUARY 13, 2020

Micro-credentials as a professional learning option. In 2016, I began exploring micro-credentials as a professional learning option for our district. For this micro-credential, Student Voice and Choice , I submitted artifacts from a research project that my ninth grade English students had completed a few months prior.

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Artifacts Professional Development Education Research 157

Digital Promise

JANUARY 8, 2018

In many districts, teachers are provided the same professional development regardless of their subject area, grade level, or personal goals. In a small school district with limited resources committed to meeting the needs of all our students, the professional development opportunities made available to us are often in tight supply.

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Education Artifacts Professional Development Economics 101

The Hechinger Report

JULY 21, 2022

Often, the group came back with artifacts like tree core samples to share with their students when school starts in the fall. Controversial or not, many teachers around the country feel ill-equipped to teach the topic, according to a 2016 national survey of science teachers by NCSE and Penn State.

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Controversial Topics Education Lesson Plan K-12 118

Studies Weekly

MAY 2, 2024

It’s also important for all students to feel represented, Laura Thomas said in her Edutopia article from August 2016. Plus, recent anti-Asian violence in the United States proves why educators need to foster awareness and understanding, Chang said in her article. If you can’t find one, don’t worry.

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Heritage Museum Social Studies Artifacts 98

Studies Weekly

JANUARY 10, 2024

Creating Connections Because Studies Weekly’s print publications are consumable, students can create artifacts to demonstrate their learning by cutting the primary sources and other information out of their publications. As students physically create artifacts, they visibly represent their thinking, understanding, and skills.

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Artifacts Primary Sources K-12 Psychology 52

Digital Promise

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Competency-based by their very nature, micro-credentials require learners to provide authentic artifacts (videos, photos, and/or text) that clearly showcase active and situation-specific evidence of implementation. 2016, May). 2016, digitalpromise.org/2016/12/01/personalizing-student-and-educator-learning-through-micro-credentials/. [6]

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K-12 Professional Development Artifacts Tradition 99