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Through socialmedia a Personal Learning Network (PLN) provides a great antidote to the age-old time excuse. While online consider making some time to learn and then apply a new skill while earning a digitalbadge to acknowledge your informal learning. Carve out some time each day if possible. Image credit: [link].
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To do that requires competencies most teacher training programs never considered. If you successfully demonstrate competence, you will receive the micro-credential in the form of a digitalbadge. Despite this, the predominance of teachers possess little training in effective methods for supporting English learners.
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Completing a training program or receiving a degree is not a destination but one milestone in a learner’s journey. Additionally, micro-credentials create a platform for Mr. Smith to share his new skills through portable digitalbadges. And so goes on the journey of continuous learning.
Many sectors, including education, acknowledge that learning does not end when formal training does. Specifically, educators can pursue micro-credentials, sharable as digitalbadges, to gain recognition for competencies they demonstrate throughout their careers, regardless of where it happens.
Communication, collaboration, creativity, media literacy, global connectedness, problem solving, and critical thinking are vital to success. Traditional forms of professional development (PD) such as “sit and get,” one-size-fits-all, and trainings lacking accountability have proven obsolete.
Micro-credentials are ideal for educators who want to close training gaps and upskill self-paced professional development, fulfill licensing requirements and propel their professional growth and advancement. Many of our educators have access to in-person and online training for state licensing or individual childcare program requirements.
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.” “The right skills,” of course, are the skills that employers expect potential employees to possess, largely eschewing training themselves and instead offloading the risk and responsibility of training onto individuals. “Tracking” – an educational practice that re-inscribed social inequalities.
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