New Professional Learning Opportunities with Micro-credentials

As part of our robust, on-demand micro-credential ecosystem, we are proud to partner with organizations and educators to develop rigorous, research-backed micro-credentials that support educator professional development and recognition of their skills. This summer we’ve launched 16 new micro-credentials from our partners, and the ecosystem is growing every day.

New micro-credentials launched this summer

The Carey Institute for Global Good has added two micro-credentials to its Refugee Educator stack. Scaffolding Learning to Support Refugee Students focuses on implementing scaffolds to assure learning is both accessible and meaningful to students. The Differentiating Instruction to Support Refugee Students micro-credential aims to build differentiation strategies along content, process, product, and learning environment to promote the highest levels of learning for all students in a classroom.

The CAPS Network has built out a Profession-Based Learning stack to address rich experiential learning opportunities.

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• Designing a Profession-Based Learning Experience: Educators design a rigorous, full-scale learning experience that supports students building 21st-century skills in a real-world work environment.
• Designing a Profession-Based Learning Experience for Student Self-Discovery: In this micro-credential, the educator demonstrates their expertise in using tools and pathways that allow students to find their strengths and passions—which, in turn, are explored with potential careers in mind.
• Assessing a Profession-Based Learning Experience: This micro-credential focuses on using multiple measures and types of assessment that are directly related to the student learning experience itself.
• Designing a Profession-Based Learning Student Internship: Using the principles of profession-based learning pedagogy, educators design project-based internships that incorporate real work, a balanced structure, technical skills, a portfolio, and more.
• Design and Engage in a Profession-Based Learning Instructor Externship: The fifth micro-credential in this stack embeds educator professional development in an experiential learning scenario with an industry partner.

The Kentucky Valley Educational Cooperative is building a stack to support Teaching Rural Students from Poverty. The Understanding Types of Poverty micro-credential, for instance, captures expertise in understanding the underpinnings of poverty to serve the needs of students. The Building Relationships micro-credential focuses on strategies to understand, build, and improve student-teacher relationships, as well as reflect on the impact of this stewardship.

And finally, the National AfterSchool Association added seven micro-credentials to its STEM Facilitation stack, where informal learning facilitators demonstrate competence in cultivating engaging, positive, and purposeful STEM learning environments.

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• Ensuring Equitable Participation in STEM: A facilitator engages all youth in an equitable method in STEM learning scenarios.
• Engaging Youth in Active STEM Learning: A facilitator develops hands-on activities while also ensuring the activities help youth understand STEM content.
• Encouraging STEM Practices: A facilitator models STEM practices, such as conducting investigations, and creates opportunities for youth to do so in authentic ways.
• Creating a Positive STEM Learning Atmosphere: A facilitator demonstrates positive relationships and interactions, as well as multiple strategies for achieving a warm and engaging learning environment.
• Providing Purposeful STEM Activities: A facilitator works with youth to achieve learning goals in STEM activities using time, structure, and communication strategies.
• Encouraging Youth Voice in STEM: A facilitator ensures youth are adopting roles that allow for genuine responsibility in whichever STEM activity is taking place.
• Ensuring STEM Content Learning: A facilitator presents accurate content and supporting youth understanding through STEM activities.

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