BOONE, N.C. — Empowering Teacher Learning, part of the Office of Rural Promise, recently published their first round of nine micro-credentials to the platform Digital Promise.
Micro-credentials are brief, targeted learning modules that allow teachers to expand their mastery of specific skills or strategies through evidence-based assessments. By focusing on these individual needs, micro-credentials provide a customized path for professional growth and help fulfill the Office of Rural Promise’s commitment to supporting Western North Carolina teachers and schools.
The new micro-credential courses include:
- Fight, Flight, Freeze, or Fawn: Identifying and Supporting Students in a Trauma-Sensitive Classroom
- Incorporating Place-Based Writing
- Integrating Outdoor Learning into the Classroom
- Introduction to Self-Directed Learning for Students
- Leveraging the Arts to Identify and Characterize Emotions
- Modifying Schoolwork for Exceptional Children in the Inclusion Classroom
- Reflective Practice Using Video
- Scientific Inquiry through Development, Use, and Evaluation of Models
- Self-Checking Exercises in the Math Classroom
The ETL-published micro-credentials were created in collaboration with the teacher-participants of the Empowering Teacher Learning project. Empowering Teacher Learning is a 5-year long, $12 million dollar grant funded by the U.S. Department of Education, currently in their culminating year of the grant.
Empowering Teacher Learning sought to redefine professional learning for rural North Carolina middle schools through a Teacher-Directed Professional Learning (TDPL) model. By emphasizing teacher autonomy and competency-based growth, the ETL project explores the direct relationship between this personalized model and improvements in teacher efficacy and student achievement.