Introducing EDvancement ... A New PD Framework for Minnesota Schools!
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The Minnesota Service Cooperatives offer a wide variety of workshops, seminars, and conferences. The agencies also host a number of professional networks, associations, and learning communities. Training opportunities may be offered on a regional basis or customized to fit the needs of individual organizations, including on-site training. Professional Development offerings serve many employee groups: from School Administrators to Bus Drivers, from CEO to Administrative Assistants, from Custodian to Paraprofessionals.
Micro-Credentials
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In partnership with BloomBoard, MSC is working with districts across the state to offer a competency-based professional learning framework comprising a series of micro-endorsements, which allow educators to prove proficiency in specific practice areas while accumulating masters equivalent credit hours.
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What is Micro-endorsement?
Rooted in the concept of existing teaching endorsements, micro-endorsements can be thought of as a competency-based approach to building requisite levels of proficiency in specific skill areas such as subject or pedagogical topics. The conceptual difference between traditional endorsements and micro-endorsements is that each micro-endorsement is made up of a cohesive group of micro-credentials, each representing an educator’s demonstration of competence in a single skill. By completing the series of micro-credentials in a micro-endorsement, an educator demonstrates their general competence and qualification in a subject area or pedagogical topic. -
How Do Micro-credentials Work?
A micro-credential is earned by demonstrating competence in a specific skill via a portfolio of evidence created through classroom practice. Micro-credentials on BloomBoard follow the ADDIE (Analyze, Design, Develop, Implement, Evaluate) instructional design framework. All micro-credentials are based on a robust, standardized blueprint, grounded in four areas of instructional efficacy research including, cycles of inquiry, job-embedded supports, rigorously calibrated assessment, and portfolio-based learning.
Completing a set of specialized micro-credentials allows educators to demonstrate skills that can open up new career opportunities and assist in advancing their compensation via existing salary schedule credit. MSC encourages districts to align micro-endorsements to existing salary schedule credit, enabling educators to advance in their compensation.
Other Professional Development
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Visit your local service cooperative's website to see what is being offered in your region. Click here for statewide map.