Professional Development Program Micro-Credentials

Develop students' computational thinking, decomposition skills, and coding ability.

This micro-credential recognizes successful completion of a self-guided, digital Learning Quest that includes:
Learn the Strategies: Featured teachers share their experiences, thinking, and high-leverage teacher moves. Teachers view video of the featured educators making their thinking visible with real students.
Notice the Strategies: Teachers develop the skill of noticing best practices in order to improve their own instruction. They watch, notice, and analyze what's happening in the classroom.
Apply the Strategies: Teachers practice the strategies in a new context related to their own classroom teaching.
Next Steps: Learners complete Next Steps to self-assess and consolidate their learning.

After completing the course, teachers can:
• identify characteristics and benefits of computer science learning.
• support students' creation and modification of code to solve problems.
• support students as they decompose problems into subproblems.
• support students as they debug to identify and fix problems.

Develop students' computational thinking, decomposition skills, and coding ability.

This micro-credential recognizes successful completion of a self-guided, digital Learning Quest that includes:
Learn the Strategies: Featured teachers share their experiences, thinking, and high-leverage teacher moves. Teachers view video of the featured educators making their thinking visible with real students.
Notice the Strategies: Teachers develop the skill of noticing best practices in order to improve their own instruction. They watch, notice, and analyze what's happening in the classroom.
Apply the Strategies: Teachers practice the strategies in a new context related to their own classroom teaching.
Next Steps: Learners complete Next Steps to self-assess and consolidate their learning.

After completing the course, teachers can:
• identify characteristics and benefits of computer science learning.
• support students' creation and modification of code to solve problems.
• support students as they decompose problems into subproblems.
• support students as they debug to identify and fix problems.

Make the classroom a place where students think like scientists, develop sound experimental practices, and see themselves as explorers and experimenters.

This micro-credential recognizes successful completion of a self-guided, digital Learning Quest that includes:
Learn the Strategies: Featured teachers share their experiences, thinking, and high-leverage teacher moves. Teachers view video of the featured educators making their thinking visible with real students.
Notice the Strategies: Teachers develop the skill of noticing best practices in order to improve their own instruction. They watch, notice, and analyze what's happening in the classroom.
Apply the Strategies: Teachers practice the strategies in a new context related to their own classroom teaching.
Next Steps: Learners complete Next Steps to self-assess and consolidate their learning.

After completing the course, teachers can:
• identify characteristics and benefits of scientific investigation.
• facilitate students' application of scientific principles to investigate and experiment.
• guide students in asking questions to identify, clarify, and evaluate data.
• support students in developing and refining methods to generate data for testing.

Help students generate ideas creatively and to analyze/evaluate their own thinking.

This micro-credential recognizes successful completion of a self-guided, digital Learning Quest that includes:
Learn the Strategies: Featured teachers share their experiences, thinking, and high-leverage teacher moves. Teachers view video of the featured educators making their thinking visible with real students.
Notice the Strategies: Teachers develop the skill of noticing best practices in order to improve their own instruction. They watch, notice, and analyze what's happening in the classroom.
Apply the Strategies: Teachers practice the strategies in a new context related to their own classroom teaching.
Next Steps: Learners complete Next Steps to self-assess and consolidate their learning.

After completing the course, teachers can:
• identify key characteristics and benefits of creative and critical thinking.
• demonstrate strategies that ensure students generate ideas and think creatively.
• encourage students to share and reflect on their solutions.
• use strategies that develop students' capacity to use both creative and critical thinking to solve problems.

Facilitate project-based learning effectively by supporting students in developing real-life aplications, building understanding, and working in manageable steps while completing an open-ended project.

This micro-credential recognizes successful completion of specified elements in a Facilitated Competency-Based Course that includes.
Define Excellence: Teachers respond to video, analyze examples using LEGO Education instructional design frameworks, and share their own experiences to describe excellence in teaching and learning using SPIKE^™ Prime.
Notice the Strategies: Teachers analyze the instructional design of a unit, adapting it for their teaching and learning context. They observe and analyze high-leverage instructional moves during an expert-facilitated model lesson, noticing best practices.
Apply the Strategies: Teachers practice the strategies through scenario-based challenges, collaborative lesson and unit planning, and teach-backs with peer and expert feedback.
Next Steps: Teachers self-assess and consolidate their learning.

After completing the course, teachers can:
• identify key characteristics and benefits of project-based learning.
• guide students in developing real-life applications that connect to prior learning and other curricula.
• check for understanding before, during, and at the conclusion of lessons.
• chunk and sequence learning into manageable and cohesive parts that lead to a final project.

Courses offered:
Facilitating Playful Project-Based Learning with BricQ Motion Essential

Support students during project-based learning with strategies that facilitate playful learning and productive experimentation.

This micro-credential recognizes successful completion of specified elements in a Facilitated Competency-Based Course that includes.
Define Excellence: Teachers respond to video, analyze examples using LEGO Education instructional design frameworks, and share their own experiences to describe excellence in teaching and learning.
Notice the Strategies: Teachers analyze the instructional design of a unit, adapting it for their teaching and learning context. They observe and analyze high-leverage instructional moves during an expert-facilitated model lesson, noticing best practices.
Apply the Strategies: Teachers practice the strategies through scenario-based challenges, collaborative lesson and unit planning, and teach-backs with peer and expert feedback.
Next Steps: Teachers self-assess and consolidate their learning.

After completing the course, teachers can:
• identify key characteristics and benefits of learning through play.
• create a learning environment that encourages play and productive experimentation.
• enable students' capacity to learn by iterating and modifying their ideas.
• adjust STEAM instruction to incorporate key aspects of learning through play.

Courses offered:
• Facilitating Playful Project-Based Learning with BricQ Motion Essential