VASCD Micro-Credentials Catalog

VASCD MicroCredentials CATALOG

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21 Micro-Credentials Available Recommended Stacks Alignment to the Teacher Evaluation Standards

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FLEXIBLE: Teachers choose how best to learn and demonstrate their skills.

RELEVANT: Teachers apply their skills within their classrooms.

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COMPETENCY-BASED: Success is based on proficiency, not hours spent.

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Catalog Build Classroom Community Teachers apply community-building strategies to help diverse learners feel safe and confident to articulate their perceptions and needs with one another.

Build Student Academic Discussion Skills

Teachers create and implement learning experiences for students to identify elements of a productive discussion, and to gather and present evidence that supports or refutes ideas/opinions.

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Catalog Build Student Questioning Skills Teachers help students understand and develop questions that build their knowledge, extend understanding, and deepen their thinking. They embed these questioning skills in academic learning experiences.

Create a Performance Assessment Blueprint Teachers construct a design blueprint for a performance assessment that is organized around a big idea, driving question or problem.

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Catalog Create and Communicate Clear Learning Targets

Teachers create and communicate learning targets in student friendly language, provide experiences that help students understand and work toward learning targets, and design or revise lessons aligned with learning targets.

Create Opportunities for Students to Cultivate Empathy Teachers design and implement activites for students to demonstrate empathy in the classroom, school, and community.

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Catalog Creating a More Culturally Responsive Learning Environment Teachers demonstrate to students that all cultures and identities are respected in the classroom, and that they have high expectations for learning for all students.

Designing a Rubric Teachers design a student-friendly rubric that provides clear criteria and opportunity for growth in one or more of the 5 Cs.

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Catalog Facilitate Respectful Student to Student Conversations Teachers choose and implement protocols for speaking and listening that support a culture of respectful student to student conversations to promote deeper learning.

Incorporate Student Choice Teachers use strategies to provide opportunities for students to make meaningful choices based on their learning needs and the enhancement of deeper learning.

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Catalog Model and Encourage Thinking Out Loud Teachers model and scaffold ways for students to describe their thinking and describe how they make student thinking visible.

Model Empathy with Students and Peers Teachers use strategies to control their responses in frustrating and difficult situations, identify common instrests between themselves and their students, and model empathic responses to others.

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Catalog Plan from Driving Questions Teachers expand students' understanding of how driving questions lead to deeper learning and provide opportunities for students to use them to facilitate deeper learning.

Plan with Authentic Community Problems Teachers familiarize themselves and their students with the community and its challenges to generate a list and discuss potential solutions that relate to curriculum content.

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Catalog Planning for Culturally Competent Community Engagement with Authentic Community Challenges Teachers support students in identifying a challenge that reveals the influence of dimensions of diversity in the community, gathering information and insight through participatory and collaborative partnerships, and creating opportunities for authentic and culturally competent engagement by cultivating relationships anchored in affirmation, mutual respect, and validation.

Provide Feedback to Foster Deeper Learning Teachers utilize information from formative assessment and descriptive and feedback strategies during instruction to improve the quality of student work.

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Catalog Reflect on My Cultural Competence Teachers identify the factors that create their own cultural identity as well as those they may or may not share with students. They identify influences of cultural differences on expectations of student engagement, discipline, learning and achievement.

Teach About and Through Empathy

Teachers model empathetic responses to others , design and implement lesson activities to help students understand empathy, and create opportunities for students to demonstrate empathy.

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Catalog Use Questions to Elicit Student Thinking Teachers create and implement questions into instruction that elicit student thinking at higher cognitive levels and evaluate questions for rigor using a question framework.

Using Culturally Responsive Teaching Strategies Teachers activate students’ prior knowledge by tapping into cultural norms and experiences and encourage multiple (and multicultural) viewpoints and interpretations of content.

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Catalog Using Routines and Procedures to Strengthen Learning Teachers choose and implement classroom routines and procedures that reduce interruptions and distractions or contribute to students’ ability to be self-directed in everyday tasks.

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Recommended Stacks New Teacher Stack These micro-credentials are designed with new teachers in mind, but are useful at any level of experience or expertise for those wishing to refresh and document their skills.

Create and Communicate Clear Learning Targets Using Routines and Procedures to Strengthen Learning Facilitate Respectful Student to Student Conversations Build Classroom Community

Cultural Competence Stack These 4 micro-credentials are designed as a sequence but they may be earned individually or in any order.

Reflect on My Cultural Competence Creating a More Culturally Responsive Learning Environment Using Culturally Responsive Teaching Strategies Planning for Culturally Competent Community Engagement with Authentic Community Challenges

Innovation Stack These 3 micro-credentials are designed as a sequence for those interested in designing and implementing performance assessment, but they may be earned individually or in any order.

Create a Performance Assessment Blueprint Designing a Rubric Provide Feedback to Foster Deeper Learning

Deeper Student Learning Stack These 3 micro-credentials all relate to student interactions and their role in deeper learning. They may be earned individually or in any order.

Build Student Academic Discussion Skills Build Students Questioning Skills Teach About and Through Empathy

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Alignment to the Performance Standards for Teachers For a comprehensive alignment to the Performance Standards for Teachers click HERE.

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