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Effective Integration of Content Standards (Instructional Clarity)
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Microcredential ID : 3069
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Instructional Coaching Endorsement: Instructional Design and Assessment
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0.5 USBE Credit

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This microcredential focuses on an instructional coach's ability to understand content standards and consistently integrate standard competencies into effective instruction and assessment practices aligned to these standards.

Effective Teaching Practices for Secondary Mathematics
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Microcredential ID : 2904
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Special Education Mathematics Course for Secondary Teaching
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0.5 USBE Credit

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This microcredential represents an educator's planning for, implementation of, and reflection on the eight Standards of Mathematical Practice outlined in the Utah Core Mathematics Standards and the eight Effective Mathematical Teaching Practices described in Principles to Actions: Ensuring Mathematical Success for All (NCTM, 2014). This is the fourth of six microcredential requirements for the Special Education Mathematics Course for Secondary Teaching Stack. These microcredentials can be earned in any order.

Elementary and Secondary Student Development and Pedagogy
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Microcredential ID : 2872
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Instructional Coaching Endorsement: Foundations of Instructional Coaching
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0.5 USBE Credit

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The focus of this microcredential is understanding key differences and similarities between the elementary and secondary student development and pedagogy. Note that earning this Microcredential requires prerequisites as aligned with the USBE Instructional Coaching Endorsement and is intended as a competency path for an experienced instructional coach.

Emotional Intelligence
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Microcredential ID : 2928
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Health Endorsement: Mental and Emotional Health
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0.5 USBE Credit

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This microcredential represents educators' effective and consistent instruction on emotional intelligence. This microcredential fulfills one of the requirements of a pathway for endorsement. Click the More Info button to learn more.

Engineering is Elementary
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Microcredential ID : 2653
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Engineering by Design
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0.5 USBE Credit

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This microcredential represents the effective implementation of Engineering is Elementary (EIE). EIE is a project-based learning curriculum for engineering, science, and math. Teachers apply the processes and practices of project-based learning as they implement the curriculum from eie.org.

Equitable Assessment Practices
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Microcredential ID : 2921
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Elementary Mathematics Endorsement: Assessment and Intervention
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0.5 USBE Credit

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This microcredential represents a teacher’s ability to implement equitable assessment practices. It shows an understanding of that fact that when access and equity have been successfully addressed, student outcomes—including achievement on a range of mathematics assessments, disposition toward mathematics, and persistence in the mathematics pipeline—transcend, and cannot be predicted by students' racial, ethnic, linguistic, gender, and socioeconomic backgrounds (NCTM, 2014. Access and equity in mathematics education). This microcredential is the second of two in the Elementary Mathematics Endorsement: Assessment and Intervention Stack. These microcredentials can be earned in any order.

Equity and Accessibility in Science Teaching and Learning
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Microcredential ID : 3013
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Secondary Science Endorsement: Three-Dimensional Science and Engineering
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0.5 USBE Credit

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This microcredential represents educators' consistent and effective focus on equity and accessibility in three-dimensional science instruction in secondary science classrooms. This stack of microcredentials fulfills one of the requirements of the pathway for the Secondary Science Endorsement.

Evaluating Digital Tools, Products, and Resources for Learning
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Microcredential ID : 3106
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Ed Tech Endorsement: Competency 2
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0.5 USBE Credit

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This microcredential represents an educator’s ability to evaluate an educational technology tool, application, product, and/or resource for its effectiveness in the classroom based on current research and best practices. It also represents the educator's ability to describe how that tool supports student learning, growth and achievement.

Exhibition
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Microcredential ID : 2781
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Arts Leadership
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0.5 USBE Credit

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This microcredential represents educators' production skills necessary to produce a student art exhibition. Production skills include the ability to coach student’s creative expression, technical abilities, writing artist statements and meaning making in the creative process as works are created for a showcase. Part of producing an exhibition is the ability to display and arrange student work in a cohesive and aesthetic way so that all work is visible for all patrons. It also includes the marketing, communication, and partnering skills needed to work with stakeholders such as parents, staff, and administration.

Facilitating Equitable and Inclusive Dialogue in Small-Group & Whole-Class Discu
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Microcredential ID : 2993
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Secondary ELA Endorsement: Speaking and Listening
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0.5 USBE Credit

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This microcredential represents educators' effective and consistent facilitation of civil dialogue in small-group and whole-class discussion. This is the second microcredential in the Speaking and Listening stack. This stack of microcredentials fulfills one of the requirements of a pathway for endorsement. Click the More Info button to learn more.

Facilitating Learning Through Collaboration with Digital Resources
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Microcredential ID : 3095
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Ed Tech Endorsement: Competency 3
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0.5 USBE Credit

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This microcredential represents collaboration with other educators using educational technology tools for teacher and student success. This collaboration can be from inside the educator's school, district, state or even commercial sources.

This microcredential is part of the Developing & Supporting 21st Century Learners microcredential stack. This stack, when completed, meets Requirement Area #3 of the Educational Technology Endorsement.

Facilitating Learning Through Creativity With Digital Media
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Microcredential ID : 3097
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Ed Tech Endorsement: Competency 3
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0.5 USBE Credit

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This microcredential represents educators' ability to do the following: provide opportunities for students to publish and present original content for various audiences; encourage responsible evaluation of curated material; engage students in the curation of original works; and facilitate opportunities for students to positively affect his or her society as a result of their creative works.

Facilitating Learning Through Critical Thinking Using Technology
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Microcredential ID : 3100
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Ed Tech Endorsement: Competency 3
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0.5 USBE Credit

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This microcredential represents an educator's ability to develop a project-based learning experience where students solve an authentic problem utilizing computational thinking and critical thinking skills.

Facilitating Learning Through Online Communication
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Microcredential ID : 3099
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Ed Tech Endorsement: Competency 3
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0.5 USBE Credit

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This microcredential represents educators' instruction on responsible evaluation of and appropriate responses to others’ online professional communications, including the communication of complex ideas clearly and effectively through a variety of digital objects. This includes fostering opportunities for students to demonstrate effective communication skills online, and providing examples of effective online student communication.

Facilitating Literacy Communities
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Microcredential ID : 3072
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Secondary Literacy Interventionist Endorsement: Motivation and Engagement
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0.5 USBE Credit

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This microcredential represents literacy interventionists' effective use of community-building and student collaboration to support adolescent literacy instruction.

This is the third microcredential in the Motivation and Engagement stack. This stack fulfills one of the requirements for the Secondary Literacy Interventionist endorsement.

FCCLA
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Microcredential ID : 3135
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FCS Endorsement: General
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0.5 USBE Credit

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This microcredential represents educators' effective and consistent instruction in the Career and Technical Student Organization known as FCCLA. This stack of microcredentials fulfills one of the requirements of a pathway for Family and Consumer Sciences endorsement.

Feedback
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Microcredential ID : 2748
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Utah's High Leverage Practices for Classroom Instruction
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0.5 USBE Credit

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This microcredential represents an educator's ability to provide positive and constructive feedback to guide students' learning and behavior.

Finding Credible Information
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Microcredential ID : 3104
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Ed Tech Endorsement: Competency 4
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0.5 USBE Credit

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This microcredential represents an educator's ability to a) model and instruct students in best practices for information and media fluency, b) develop a classroom environment conducive to questioning and investigation, and c) model and instruct students to assess the credibility and usefulness of information found from a variety of sources.

Fitness for Life Instructional Techniques
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Microcredential ID : 2903
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Physical Education Endorsement: Methods of Teaching Fitness for Life
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0.5 USBE Credit

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This microcredential represents educators' use of effective instructional techniques in the Fitness for Life course. The foundation of the Fitness for Life is based on these 5 components. The Fitness for Life course is a requirement for high school graduation in Utah.

Flexible Seating Across Grade Levels
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Microcredential ID : 3142
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Strategies that Support All Learners
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0.5 USBE Credit

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This microcredential represents a teacher’s ability to effectively use flexible seating in the classroom, including room arrangement, classroom management, and routines and expectations for safety and a sense of belonging in supporting student needs. A variety of types of flexible seating could be incorporated and appropriately used in grades K-12, meaning that this microcredential is accessible to teachers in all grades.

Fluency
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Microcredential ID : 2934
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Elementary Mathematics Endorsement: Numbers and Operations
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0.5 USBE Credit

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This microcredential represents a teacher’s understanding of fluency and their ability to understand and support students in building procedural fluency from conceptual understanding over time. This includes planning and implementing instruction and assessment to support fluency in mathematics based on current fluency related research, as well as using and analyzing formative and summative assessments to determine where students are in building procedural fluency from conceptual understanding. This microcredential is the fifth of five in the Elementary Mathematics Endorsement: Numbers and Operations Stack. These microcredentials can be earned in any order.

Food and Culture
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Microcredential ID : 2966
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Health Endorsement: Nutrition
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0.5 USBE Credit

Description

This microcredential represents educators' effective and consistent instruction on food and culture. This is the fourth microcredential in the Nutrition Stack. This stack of microcredentials fulfills one of the requirements of a pathway for endorsement. Click the More Info button to learn more.

Foundational Coaching Dispositions
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Microcredential ID : 2873
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Instructional Coaching Endorsement: Foundations of Instructional Coaching
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0.5 USBE Credit

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This microcredential focuses on the roles, responsibilities, and dispositions an effective instructional coach demonstrates. Instructional coaching in education has the potential to inspire, support, motivate, challenge and push thinking, and impact change. In order for these changes to occur instructional coaches need to develop and possess a variety of professional dispositions and qualities. Note that earning this Microcredential requires prerequisites as aligned with the USBE Instructional Coaching Endorsement and is intended as a competency path for an experienced instructional coach.

Foundational Writing Skills for Adolescents
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Microcredential ID : 3068
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Secondary Literacy Interventionist Endorsement: Writing
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0.5 USBE Credit

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This microcredential represents literacy interventionists' practices in teaching foundational writing skills.

This is the first microcredential in the Secondary Literacy Interventionist stack. This stack fulfills one of the requirements for the Secondary Literacy Interventionist endorsement.

Fraction Concepts
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Microcredential ID : 2962
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Elementary Mathematics Endorsement: Rational Numbers and Proportional Reasoning
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0.5 USBE Credit

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This microcredential represents a teacher’s understanding of fraction concepts and their ability to understand and respond to developmentally appropriate learning trajectories/progressions related to fraction concepts by planning and implementing instruction based on the Standards for Mathematical Practice and Effective Mathematics Teaching Practices. It includes selecting, using, and adapting mathematics curricula and teaching materials, including the integration of mathematical tools and technology, as well as using and analyzing formative and summative assessments to determine where students are in learning trajectories related to fraction concepts. This is the second of seven microcredentials in the Elementary Mathematics Endorsement: Rational Numbers and Proportional Reasoning. These microcredentials can be earned in any order.

Health Core Standards and Curriculum
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Microcredential ID : 2937
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Health Endorsement: Methods of Teaching Health
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0.5 USBE Credit

Description

This microcredential represents educators' effective and consistent use of the Utah Core Standards to plan and implement health instruction. This is the first microcredential in the Methods of Teaching Health stack, which fulfills one of the requirements of a pathway for endorsement.

Health Instruction Planning and Reflection
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Microcredential ID : 2943
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Health Endorsement: Methods of Teaching Health
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0.5 USBE Credit

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This microcredential represents educators' effective and consistent use planning and reflection to continuously improve health instruction. This is the fourth microcredential in the Methods of Teaching Health stack, which fulfills one of the requirements of a pathway for endorsement.

Health Instructional Methods
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Microcredential ID : 2940
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Health Endorsement: Methods of Teaching Health
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0.5 USBE Credit

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This microcredential represents educators' use of a range of effective instructional methods to support health instruction. This is the third microcredential in the Methods of Teaching Health stack, which fulfills one of the requirements of a pathway for endorsement.

Healthy Strategies for Maintaining, Gaining, or Losing Weight
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Microcredential ID : 2965
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Health Endorsement: Nutrition
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0.5 USBE Credit

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This microcredential represents educators' effective and consistent instruction on healthy strategies for maintaining, reducing, or gaining weight. This is the third microcredential in the Nutrition Stack. This stack of microcredentials fulfills one of the requirements of a pathway for endorsement. Click the More Info button to learn more.

High Quality Instructional Cycle Part 1
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Microcredential ID : 3088
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APPEL: Instruction, Technology, Assessment, and Planning
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0.5 USBE Credit

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This Microcredential is part one of two in a stack that will allow APPEL candidates to demonstrate the High Quality Instructional cycle. Completion of this Microcredential will require demonstrating Step 1 (Goals and Outcomes), Step 2 (Planning Instruction), and Step 3 (Instruction) of the High Quality Instructional Cycle.

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