What’s all the fuss about micro-credentials and digital badging? What are they and how do I earn them? What do they have to do with professional development and personalizing learning for educators? What’s the iLearnMaine Educator Micro-credentials program? Attend this session and not only discover answers to these questions, but get a head start on figuring out which micro-credentials you might like to earn!

 

An Overview of Proficiency-based Professional Learning.

 

iLearnMaine Educator Micro-credentals

• Project Home
• Proficiency-based Professional Learning
• 12 Professional Learning Buckets for Learning Through Technology (the teacher practices we’d like to promote)
• All About Micro-credentials
• Nellie Mae White Paper – Digital Badging and Micro-Credentialing

Digital Promise & Educator Micro-credentials

• Digital Promise Educator Micro-credentials
• Digital Promise Home
• 7 Lessons Learned From Implementing Micro-credentials

 

Maine’s Initiatives (Where we learned we needed professional learning that is proficiency-based):

• MLTI (Maine Learning Technology Initiative)
  • MLTI Home
  • An Introduction to MLTI
• Auburn’s iPads in Primary Grades Initiative
  • Auburn’s Leveraging Learning Institute (primary grades iPads)
  • There is now a statewide (Maine) pilot of Primary Grades Literacy and iPads
• Proficiency-based Learning
  • Maine: At the Forefront of Proficiency-Based Learning 
  • The Four Biggest Challenges to Implementing Maine’s Proficiency-Based Diploma
  • Getting to Proficiency: Helping Maine Graduate Every Student Prepared (MDOE)

 

Some Possible Professional Learning Curricula:

• Maine Learning Technology Framework
• A Plain English Instructional Model
• 12 Professional Learning Buckets for Learning Through Technology
• Not All At Once: Breaking Your Initiative Into Phases

 

Possible Systems for Tracking Professional Learning:

• Educate (a learning progress management system for proficiency-based learning)
• Micro-credentials
  • Micro-credentials 101 – Workshop Resources
  • Digital Promise Educator Micro-credentials
  • Digital Promise Home
  • 7 Lessons Learned From Implementing Micro-credentials