This microcredential is the first in the Nature of Science and Engineering microcredential stack. This stack, when completed, meets Requirement Area #1 of the Elementary Science Endorsement. Through this microcredential, educators: Demonstrate conceptual understandings of the key aspects of the Nature of Science. Identify discourse and reflective experiences of the Nature of Science in order to explain how scientific knowledge is developed and communicated, used to influence social and economic decisions, and improves life. Explain the history of science as a valuable context to understand the structure of and access to science learning.

This microcredential is the second in the Nature of Science and Engineering microcredential stack. This stack, when completed, meets Requirement Area #1 of the Elementary Science Endorsement. Through this microcredential, educators: Demonstrate conceptual understandings of the key aspects of the Nature of Engineering, and Demonstrate foundational understandings of how the Nature of Science in concert with the Nature of Engineering influences individual and societal decision making and approaches to scientific literacy.

This microcredential is the third in the Nature of Science and Engineering microcredential stack. This stack, when completed, meets Requirement Area #1 of the Elementary Science Endorsement. Through this microcredential, educators: Demonstrate how the Nature of Science connects with three-dimensional science instruction and Prepare to enact three-dimensional science instruction that is based on authentic phenomena and problems and supports the development of students’ conceptual science understanding and scientific literacy.

This microcredential is the Fourth in the Nature of Science and Engineering microcredential stack. This stack, when completed, meets Requirement Area #1 of the Elementary Science Endorsement. Through this microcredential, educators demonstrate an ability to promote effective and equitable science instruction both in personal practice and in the science education community.

This microcredential is the first in the Stability and Change in Science microcredential stack. This stack, when completed, meets Requirement Area #5 of the Elementary Science Endorsement. Through this microcredential applicants demonstrate understanding of how changes occur in natural systems and construct explanations and arguments supported by evidence of how systems in dynamic equilibrium are stable due to a balance of feedback mechanisms within the system.

This microcredential is the second in the Stability and Change in Science microcredential stack. This stack, when completed, meets Requirement Area #5 of the Elementary Science Endorsement. Through this microcredential applicants demonstrate understanding of how changes occur as natural systems interact through constructing explanations, and improving them through argumentation. Additionally, educators demonstrate an understanding that change in systems occurs in differing temporal scales (change can happen suddenly or over a long period of time), spatial scales (changes occur based on the shape, orientation, location, direction or trajectory), and scales of magnitude (small changes can lead to big effects or big changes cause many small effects).

This stack, when completed, meets Requirement Area #5 of the Elementary Science Endorsement. Through this microcredential applicants demonstrate understanding of how to prepare and enact three-dimensional science instruction that is based on authentic phenomena and problems and supports the development of students’ conceptual science understanding and scientific literacy.

This microcredential is the fourth in the Stability and Change in Science microcredential stack. This stack, when completed, meets Requirement Area #5 of the Elementary Science Endorsement. Through this microcredential applicants demonstrate an ability to promote effective and equitable science instruction both in personal practice and in the science education community.

This microcredential is the first in the Systems in Science microcredential stack. This stack, when completed, meets Requirement Area #2 of the Elementary Science Endorsement. Through this microcredential, applicants demonstrate understanding of how different systems are organized groups of related parts that make up a whole that can carry out functions that individual parts within systems cannot.

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.

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.

Teachers who encourage and nurture student development of emotional intelligence can expect to see students who are more capable of effectively leveraging the skills of self-motivation, self-control, recognizing one’s own feelings and the feelings of others, managing one’s emotions, and building social relationships. Emotional Intelligence is related to the outcomes of understanding and managing emotions and establishing and maintaining positive relationships from Social Emotional Learning: A Utah State Board of Education Technical Assistance Document.

Student engagement is the degree of attention, curiosity, interest, optimism and passion that students show when they are learning or being taught, which extends to the level of motivation they have to learn and progress in their education.

The best practices in this document were included as part of USBE's 2023 summer professional learning sessions of the new English Language Arts standards. Additional resource links have been included in some instances to provide additional information.

Deepen your understanding in the English Language Arts standards by reading research on developmentally appropriate practice.This module will include ideas of how you can implement these standards into your daily lessons, and allows you to learn at your own pace.

Find strategies and activities that you can use in the classroom that tie directly to the Early learning Preschool core standards.

Enrichment Programs such as exploratory activities, in-depth materials on a topic, and self-selected independent projects provide gifted and talented students with opportunities to add to or go beyond the existing curriculum, since gifted and talented students generally gain a basic understanding of content standards quickly. Activities may also be extended to those who may not necessarily be officially classified as gifted, but excel in certain areas.

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.

This resource is a free, downloadable audio file of short music clips to use for instruction.

This resource is a free, downloadable audio file of short music clips to use for instruction.