3 Ways Educators Can Learn from Designers
Here are three ways educators can learn from designers.
Here are three ways educators can learn from designers.
Take Small Bites and Chew Slowly: The Benefits of Microcredentials Have you heard about microcredentials? It’s a new approach to professional development in a smaller, focused format. ______________________________________________________________ How does microcredentials work? Professionals complete a discrete, competency-based task. The organization offering microcredentials can then issue badges, continuing education credits, or other verification of completion. What might this process look like in practice? Let’s say a K12 school district typically offers face-to-face courses for teachers’ professional development. Teachers sign on and attend a number of hours of training and are then awarded continuing professional development, or CPD, credit for participating in those workshop trainings. If that same K12 school district redesigned the learning using the microcredentialing approach, several components would change, including: ● The time unit would be smaller. It’s easier for busy educators to fit a 15- or 30-minute professional development session into their busy schedules. ● The learning experience is skill based and related to on-the-job tasks. Putting literacy groups into action! ● Teachers participate in a round-robin of 15-minute classroom observations watching a [...]
A more hands-on approach to learning in schools aids children in imagining a completely new reality that they can strive toward.
Using open ended questions can get a better, longer response than closed ended questions in student centered learning classrooms.
Talk story represents a style of learning quite different from traditional lectures and direct instruction.
Classroom teachers should understand how technology has changed the way students learn in the classroom.
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Jerusalem school run by Arab and Jewish people.