Education can scratch the surface, or it can go deep – providing students with not just subject knowledge, but the skills required to master that subject.
Skills such as inquiry, critical thinking, and collaborative problem solving equip students with the tools they need to succeed in college and the workforce—tools that set the foundation for lifelong learning.
In order to move to a competency-based system, Digital Promise and Getting Smart advocate taking advantage of the opportunity to model that approach for those at the head of the classroom: teachers. Digital Promise CEO Karen Cator, along with Tom Vander Ark and Carri Schneider from Getting Smart, lay out a new approach to teacher professional development in a paper and corresponding infographic.
This approach allows teachers to take ownership of their learning by giving them control over when, where, and what their professional development looks like. Through it, teachers earn micro-credentials, issued in the form of digital badges.
Check out the paper and infographic at:
http://www.digitalpromise.org/infographic-preparing-teachers-for-deeper-learning/
