This microcredential focuses on educators' consistent and effective use of Three Dimensional Assessments to inform instruction. Three Dimensional Assessments help demonstrate student understanding and proficiency to explain phenomena and solve design challenges. Assessments require students to apply the science and engineering practices (their skills) to reveal their understanding of disciplinary core ideas (the content) and crosscutting concepts. (the big ideas that connect all sciences.) Formative and summative assessments are both necessary to assess student understanding and performance.

● Anticipating students' solutions to a mathematics task ● Monitoring students' in-class, “real-time” work on the task ● Selecting approaches and students to share them ● Sequencing students' presentations purposefully ● Connecting students' approaches and the underlying mathematics. These 5 manageable practices have the power to put teachers in control of productive classroom discussions.

This microcredential represents a teacher’s ability to understand and respond to progressions related to addition and subtraction with rational numbers, including conceptualizations, properties, strategies, and representations, 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 addition and subtraction with rational numbers. This is the fifth of seven microcredentials in the Elementary Mathematics Endorsement: Rational Numbers and Proportional Reasoning. These microcredentials can be earned in any order.

This microcredential represents educators' effective and consistent instruction on the anatomy and physiology of male and female reproductive systems. This is the first microcredential in the Human Sexuality stack. This stack of microcredentials fulfills one of the requirements of a pathway for endorsement. Click the More Info button to learn more.

This microcredential represents educators' effective and consistent use of a range of assessments to inform health instruction. This is the second microcredential in the Methods of Teaching Health stack, which fulfills one of the requirements of a pathway for endorsement.

This microcredential represents educators' effective and consistent instruction on body image and eating disorders (anorexia, bulimia, binge-eating disorder). This is the second microcredential in the Nutrition Stack. This stack of microcredentials fulfills one of the requirements of a pathway for endorsement.

Increasing educator self-efficacy increases educator effectiveness and supports student learning. This microcredential focuses on the ability of the instructional coach to support and build educator self-efficacy. 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 is the third in the Cause and Effect in Science microcredential stack. This stack, when completed, meets Requirement Area #4 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 represents educators' effective and consistent instruction on chronic disease. This is the first microcredential in the Human Diseases Stack. This stack of microcredentials fulfills one of the requirements of a pathway for endorsement. Click the More Info button to learn more.

This microcredential represents a teacher’s understanding of comparison and equivalence with rational numbers and their ability to understand and respond to progressions related to comparison and equivalence with rational numbers 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 comparison and equivalence with rational numbers. This microcredential is the fourth of seven in the Elementary Mathematics Endorsement: Rational Numbers and Proportional Reasoning Stack. These microcredentials can be earned in any order.

This microcredential represents educators' effective instruction on conception, pregnancy, and childbirth. This is the second microcredential in the Human Sexuality stack. This stack of microcredentials fulfills one of the requirements of a pathway for endorsement. Click the More Info button to learn more.

This microcredential represents educators' effective instruction on contraception, including abstinence. This is the third microcredential in the Human Sexuality stack. This stack of microcredentials fulfills one of the requirements of a pathway for endorsement. Click the More Info button to learn more.

This microcredential represents educators' ability to appropriately use crosscutting concepts to support student sensemaking. This stack of microcredentials fulfills one of the requirements of the pathway for the Secondary Science Endorsement.

This microcredential represents a teacher’s ability to understand and respond to progressions related to data by planning and implementing instruction based on the Standards for Mathematical Practice and Effective Mathematics Teaching Practices. It involves 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 of data. This microcredential is the fifth of five in the Elementary Mathematics Endorsement: Understand and Implement Concepts of Measurement Stack. These microcredentials can be earned in any order.

This microcredential represents a teacher’s understanding of decimal and percent concepts and their ability to understand and respond to developmentally appropriate learning trajectories/progressions related to decimal and percent 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 third of seven microcredentials in the Elementary Mathematics Endorsement: Rational Numbers and Proportional Reasoning. These microcredentials can be earned in any order.

This microcredential represents educators' ability to appropriately use disciplinary core ideas to support student sensemaking. This stack of microcredentials fulfills one of the requirements of the pathway for the Secondary Science Endorsement.

This microcredential represents educators' effective and consistent instruction on disease prevention strategies. This is the third microcredential in the Human Diseases Stack. This stack of microcredentials fulfills one of the requirements of a pathway for endorsement. Click the More Info button to learn more.

This microcredential represents a teacher’s understanding of early fraction concepts and the ability to respond to developmentally appropriate learning progressions related to early 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 early fraction concepts. This is the first of seven microcredentials in the Elementary Mathematics Endorsement: Rational Numbers and Proportional Reasoning. These microcredentials can be earned in any order.

This microcredential represents a teacher’s understanding of early number concepts, their ability to plan appropriate learning trajectories, implement effective teaching practices to help students understand and use these concepts, and use/analyze formative assessments to determine where students are in learning trajectories. (Early number concepts include, but are not limited to: non-quantified comparisons, containment, notions of quantity and measurement, one-to-one correspondence, cardinality, meaningful counting, and ordinality, composing, and decomposing whole numbers). This microcredential is the first of five in the Elementary Mathematics Endorsement: Numbers and Operations Stack. These microcredentials can be earned in any order.

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.