Expand micro-credential systems into seven future content areas¶

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Description¶

In its What is Next? section, the article states that "Deeper Learning is just the beginning" and that Digital Promise "seek[s] partners to develop micro-credentials associated with" seven areas: teaching the Common Core State Standards at various grade bands, using teacher protocols and specific management strategies, using technology to support student learning, implementing focused supports for students with learning differences, developing coaching and teacher leadership skills, designing and implementing classroom-based research, and using data and research in the classroom.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Partners are needed to develop micro-credentials in the listed areas

Constraints¶

Target Learners¶

• practicing K-12 teachers, coaches, and teacher leaders

Target Learning Goals¶

• extending competency-based recognition to standards-based teaching, technology integration, special education supports, coaching, and classroom research

Related Strategies¶

• Advance micro-credentialing policy across five domains: controlling for quality, counting what matters, finding time, leveraging expertise, and designing for effectiveness
• Advance micro-credentials through a piloting coalition, a rigorous research agenda, and dissemination of best practices

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Developing a System of Micro-credentials: Supporting Deeper Learning in the Classroom. (2014). Digital Promise. https://www.digitalpromise.org/microcredentials