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Badging and Microcredentialing for Adult Learners |
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Gregg Eilers Brandon Schut Charles Taylor
Learn how the Stanislaus County Office of Education is using microcredentials and badging for staff professional development and supporting local school districts. Explore the possibilities of a professional development mastery and incentive program and learn the steps for setting up a digital badge program.
| Audience: | Coaches, Professional developers, Technology coordinators/facilitators |
| Skill level: | Beginner |
| Attendee devices: | Devices useful |
| Attendee device specification: | Smartphone: Android, iOS Laptop: Chromebook, Mac, PC |
| Participant accounts, software and other materials: | Resources from this Poster session will be made available to attendees on a website. The website's URL will be shared throughout the Poster session. |
| Topic: | Professional learning |
| Grade level: | PK-12 |
| ISTE Standards: | For Coaches: Learning Designer
Systems Designer
Learner
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The Stanislaus County Office of Education was looking for a way to energize their regularly scheduled professional developments. The administrators were looking for a system for teachers to demonstrate proficiency of skills obtained from professional development, rather than just comply with seat-time requirements for professional development meetings. To meet these goals, the Educational Options Division utilized the badging component of the Buzz Learning Management System and a system of badges for staff to demonstrate different levels of mastery of professional development topics.
The Stanislaus County Office of Education was also looking for a way to support the professional development efforts of their local school districts. They have developed a system of badging utilizing Google Forms and EduBadger. They have created their own badges to support their own professional development badges as well as worked with local school districts to create badges to support their local teacher initiatives. Since launching this badge initiative in the Fall of 2016, the SCOE Badge Project has issued out over 8,000 digital badges that include evidence of the learner's proficiency in a specific skill.
"What makes the digital badging system different from more traditional forms of professional development are five key features that taken together increase significantly the likelihood that the learning experience for a teacher will lead to results in the classroom for students — which, after all, is the point of professional development.
The five features:
1. Badging requires demonstrating understanding and implementation of a target content or skill.
2. Badging provides recognition and motivation.
3. Badging allows for knowledge circulation among teachers.
4. Badging can be tracked and assessed.
5. Badging is a scalable enterprise." - So You Want to Drive Instruction With Digital Badges? Start With the Teachers - https://www.edsurge.com/news/2015-10-31-so-you-want-to-drive-instruction-with-digital-badges-start-with-the-teachers
Both badging programs displayed in this poster session incorporate these five features of this promising practice of digital badging systems.
Gregg is the Project Coordinator of Ed. Tech in Modesto, CA at the Stanislaus County Office of Education. Previously he worked 15 years for the Modesto City Schools district as a 6th-grade classroom teacher. Gregg holds a Master's Degree in Education Media Design and Technology from Full Sail University where he was elected Valedictorian of his class and earned the Advanced Achievement Award by his colleagues. He also is a Google Certified Educator, Trainer, and Innovator and holds Leading Edge Certifications in Online and Blended Teacher, Professional Learning Leader, and Digital Educator.
Program Coordinator, Educational Technology at a county office of education in California.
Charles is Project Coordinator of Ed. Tech at the Stanislaus County Office of Education, located in the heart of California’s Central Valley. He has been in education for 20 years, first as a secondary History teacher. He is a Google Certified Educator Level 1 and 2, Apple and Microsoft certified, and holds the Leading Edge Certification in Online and Blended Teaching. But by night he is an aspiring superhero who trains crime fighting pugs, an avid collector of the obscure, and is looking for a regular DnD group . Also feel free to ask him about his Podcast, California True Crime.
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