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Are there options for types of artifacts requested? As leaders in the field, it was important for us to document our equity audit, and share the impact of this work with our partners and more. We have shifted our development process to reflect these lessons learned. Does it promote engagement with a diversity of learners?
While pursuing certification, educators must balance their full teaching responsibilities with an intricate process requiring thoughtful reflection, evaluation, and comprehensive documentation. It is a rigorous, time-consuming process that requires deep content knowledge and a substantial amount of evidence-based documentation.
Given the challenges of engaging teachers in professionaldevelopment this year, I suggest leveraging the coaches on your campus and in your district to offer a more personalized approach to professional learning. Document, Reflect , and Revisit Goals. The coach can help teachers document parts of their lesson (e.g.,
As a former librarian and district leader, I found that success was the best form of advocacy—when the great work of librarians is shared and documented, good things follow for students and library programs. Competency-based performance is not the same as traditional professionaldevelopment. Spring 2020 Submission Window Open.
Visitors didn’t trek to this exhibit to view famous works of art or historic artifacts. Rather than follow a strict curriculum, teachers are encouraged to listen to and document children’s interests and observations, and then develop activities to build upon previous learning.
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. What are micro-credentials and why are they useful for teachers?
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.
As a former high-school social studies teacher and professionaldevelopment specialist, I have found that connecting with cultural centers (e.g., They provide educators with access to historical records, narratives of interesting people in the community, and artifacts (e.g.,
We got some useful feedback, which will help us to set our agenda for professionaldevelopment and materials acquisition. That rubric defined “rigor” as student engagement with primary source texts and artifacts. Reading primary sources sounds like the authentic activity of professional historians. Above my pay grade.)
Examples of Student Learning Artifacts created with Studies Weekly printed publications: I hope you find these resources helpful. Your Studies Weekly Online classroom contains digital versions of your publications and more online resources like digital lesson plans, videos, and presentations you can project to the whole class.
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If possible, your group will share photos, videos, and other artifacts that reflect your work. The Hayward study group decided to “adopt the Historically Responsive Literacy Framework (HRLF) as something we want to develop lessons around to share from the Teaching for Black Lives perspective.”
I once participated in a professionaldevelopment session in which we watched a video of a class of about fifteen eighth graders sitting in a circle talking about the U.S. The thinking skill associated with Question Two is interpretation, and in high school we’re usually interpreting a primary source document. constitution.
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. 6] “Learner‐Centered ProfessionalDevelopment.” Professional learning in the learning profession.
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