{"id":10252,"date":"2020-10-06T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coreeducationllc.com\/blog2\/?p=10252"},"modified":"2020-10-04T13:16:38","modified_gmt":"2020-10-04T17:16:38","slug":"micro-credentials-for-educators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coreeducationllc.com\/blog2\/micro-credentials-for-educators\/","title":{"rendered":"Micro-credentials for Educators"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In the United States, current approaches to helping teachers engage in ongoing skill development, and equitably reward teachers with particular skill sets aligned with advanced career opportunities, are often woefully ineffective<\/a>, and sometimes even non-existent<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Micro-credentials” are a recent addition to the mix of potential solutions to these issues. Like many buzz-words in education, this term has been used to describe a variety of different activities related to the recruitment, development, and retention of educators. New America’s PreK-12 Education team has been working to identify the potential and challenges of micro-credentials in the various ways they’ve been defined and implemented with one ultimate goal: to help educators and education decision-makers at all levels make choices that will meet educators’ needs, and even more importantly, the needs of the students they serve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, New America\u2019s resources on micro-credentials have been assembled into one collection. Here you\u2019ll find:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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