Professional Development Program Micro-Credentials

Guide students to think and design like engineers.

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 the engineering design process.
• guide students in defining a problem with multiple constraints and criteria.
• facilitate students' creation of multiple ideas for solving a problem.
• guide students in systematically testing, analyzing, and revising multiple iterations or solutions to a design problem.

Develop students' algorthmic 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.
• facilitate students' use of code to create an interactive device.
• guide students to decompose a computational problem into sub tasks.
• support students as they use debugging skills 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 answer questions and problems.
• guide students in asking questions to identify, clarify, and evaluate evidence, data, and arguments.
• guide students in developing a model to generate data for iterative testing and make relevant changes.

Create a classroom community where students become helpful resources to one another by encouraging positive, purposeful collaboration and teamwork among students.

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 using SPIKE^™ Prime.
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 collaboration and teamwork.
• recognize and address common obstacles to productive collaboration.
• create a classroom community where students become helpful resources for each other.
• demonstrate effective strategies that support students in purposeful collaboration.

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.
• guide students in analyzing creative ideas to make them actionable.
• use strategies that develop students' capacity to think divergently and evaluate their own ideas.

Maximize impact of formative assessments by giving feedback that helps students to understand their strengths and challenges as learners, give and receive feedback themselves, and drive their own learning.

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 formative assessment.
• provide feedback that develops students' metacognitive skills.
• facilitate feedback in which students interact with peer designs to offer constructive suggestions and help troubleshoot issues.
• facilitate self-assessment that develops student-driven learning and agency.

Facilitate project-based learning effectively by supporting students in developing real-life applications, 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.
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/build student 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 Project-Based Learning with SPIKE^™ Prime
• Facilitating Playful Project-Based Learning with BricQ Motion Prime

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 through productive iteration and refinement of their ideas.
• adjust STEAM instruction to incorporate key aspects of learning through play.

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

Manage and monitor small group work, structure activities that include all students, and group students effectively for success.

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 effective small group work.
• observe, monitor, and provide effective direction to multiple student groups.
• address issues and logistics that interfere with full and equitable student participation.
• efficiently and strategically organize a class into pairs or small groups.

Support students during project-based learning with differentiated instruction, time and materials management for group work, and troubleshooting of hardware and software used in a 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.
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 characteristics and benefits of effective lesson and materials management.
• design and adapt learning experiences and instruction to differentiate for students’ needs.
• plan required steps, time, and materials, addressing any logistical challenges.
• troubleshoot problems with hardware and software that are affecting student progress.

Courses offered:
• Facilitating Project-Based Learning with SPIKE^™ Prime