Utah Microcredentials: Earn Credits and Endorsements for Your Self-Directed Learning!

BREAKOUT DESCRIPTION:

Educators are self-directed learners who continually develop new skills and find innovative ways to improve their practice. The Utah Microcredentials System recognizes this and provides educators with an opportunity to earn USBE credits for this self-directed professional learning.

Additionally, for the first time, you can now use microcredentials to earn USBE teaching endorsements! Beginning in 2022, Utah teachers can demonstrate competencies with microcredentials as an alternative to taking courses.

Come learn how to earn microcredentials, how to become a stipended microcredential reviewer, and how to participate in the creation of new microcredentials for other educators to earn!

A microcredential, also known as a badge, is a digital form of certification. It represents an educator’s demonstration of effective and consistent use of the target skill or concept as a part of instructional practice. Any educator in Utah’s public education system can earn microcredentials, including classroom teachers, instructional coaches, counselors, administrators, etc. Earning a microcredential provides the educator with three things: visible recognition of demonstrated competency, leadership opportunities, and USBE credit.

RESOURCES:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sqOpxqM6VKTDOCZjYQPITkHW9k4KnuVk/view?usp=sharing 

PRESENTER:

Daron Kennett

dkennett@dsdmail.net

801-402-5148

Daron received an M.Ed in curriculum and instruction from WSU and is currently doctoral candidate at USU. He has been a professional educator for 20 years, teaching English Language Arts, Reading, and ESL. Daron served in Davis School District’s Curriculum Department as the Secondary ELA Supervisor, at USBE as the state ELA and ESL Assessment Specialist, and is currently Davis district’s Professional Learning Supervisor and the manager of Utah Microcredentials.

Daron is the author of The Game Plan: A Multi-Year Blueprint to Create a School Culture of Literacy and Data Analysis (2016, Rowman & Littlefield) and in 2019 received the Northern Utah Curriculum Consortium Leadership Award.