Week05 - Accreditation Badge (13/2-20/2) [Feb. 12, 2012, 3:10 p.m.]
A badge is a validated indicator of accomplishment or skill and can be used to support learning, validate education, help build reputation, or confirm the acquisition of knowledge. In 'Open Badges for Life Long Learning' you can read:
In this ideal world, learning would be connected across formal and informal learning contexts, and you could discover relevant opportunities and craft your own learning pathways at your own pace, based on your own interests and learning styles. Whether it was through discussion with peers, structured classes or workplace experience, you could collect evidence of skill development, including new or often neglected skills such as social skills or digital literacies.
5.1 Formulate how you would like to see Badges used to demonstrate your skills from this course.
I belive 'Assessment Badges' would be usefull to evaluate skills and 'The NSW Institute of Teachers' in Australia try to list 'Professional Teaching Standards':
TEACHERS CONTINUALLY IMPROVE THEIR PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICE
Capacity to analyse and reflect on practice:
- Consistently, systematically and critically review all aspects of practice to improve student learning.
Engagement in personal and collegial professional development
- Evaluate and address the professional learning needs of colleagues with reference to the professional standards framework
- Identify, promote and evaluate personal professional development opportunities for colleagues to ensure engagement in purposeful and ongoing professional learning
Capacity to contribute to a professional community
- Critically review research on best practice in teaching and learning to assist colleagues to further develop their teaching expertise.
- Initiate or lead strategies for developing a climate for accepting and providing constructive feedback and recognition of achievement.
- Organise, promote and deliver professional development through participation in professional networks or associations.
- Take a leadership role in professional networks or associations and enhance the professional learning of teachers.
- Make significant contributions to educational policy and practice at the school and in wider professional contexts.
TEACHERS ARE ACTIVELY ENGAGED MEMBERS OF THEIR PROFESSION AND THE WIDER COMMUNITY
Communicating with parents and caregivers
- Initiate processes to identify, understand and address parent and caregiver concerns about student learning and curriculum content.
- Initiate processes to establish two-way communication with parents and caregivers about school issues and student learning.
Engaging parents and caregivers in the educative process
- Draw upon the wider community for resources and materials to increase the relevance of teaching and learning across the school.
Contributing to the school and wider community
- Take a leadership role in enhancing teacher knowledge and understanding about the school and local community.
Professional ethics and conduct
- Articulate and model ethical behaviour in all professional communication particularly in relation to confidentiality of student information.
- Take a leadership role in presenting a positive image of the school in all communication and interactions with parents, caregivers, colleagues, industry and the local community.
5.2 Try to create a similar skills rubric, that measure 'Networked Teacher Standards'
Facilitators Note: As we discussed before it is good to have at least two levels or explaining insufficient behaivior as a 'Certified Networked Teacher' (i.e. only approve answers from the text book)