WEA Micro-credential Professional Learning Feedback by

2 hours instead of 1.5

mjohnson1301 — 2024-04-27 15:16:36 UTC

Hold questions until small group time or end, or place in chat

mjohnson1301 — 2024-04-27 15:17:22 UTC

Clear explanation of difference between "stack" and "micro-credential"

mjohnson1301 — 2024-04-27 15:18:04 UTC

Early on: clear "What do you need to do" section, with guidance through each step

mjohnson1301 — 2024-04-27 15:18:56 UTC

Have as many trainers as possible be able to share screen so can be in their own breakout room

mjohnson1301 — 2024-04-27 15:19:56 UTC

No longer include PGPs as it was causing confusion

mjohnson1301 — 2024-04-27 15:21:49 UTC

Add acknowledgement of stolen labor of Black and Brown people

mjohnson1301 — 2024-04-27 16:12:59 UTC

Stacks are like pintrest boards. Lots of different ideas with a common theme

dharada — 2024-04-27 16:49:15 UTC

maybe more website walk through and less screen caps

dharada — 2024-04-27 16:50:35 UTC

Offering a "office hour" or a 1 hour mini workshop to work through or get feedback separate of the slides 10-15 in workshop

2024-04-27 17:09:07 UTC

Directly walking through the process for enrolling on screen share

2024-04-27 17:09:42 UTC

Seat time (sit and get) versus showing and demonstrating

2024-04-27 17:11:14 UTC

Break out room is too long for the slides provided

2024-04-27 17:14:04 UTC

& haven't had as many participants in this room

"Anatomy of a MC"

2024-04-27 17:15:04 UTC

Have participants open their own PDF of interest?

Process over content

2024-04-27 17:28:46 UTC

NEA Card/Account Sign Up

2024-04-27 17:29:14 UTC

During the orientation, I had to sign up for an NEA account and several folks didn't know their NEA number so there were a couple extra steps they had to take. It might be good to tell people before hand to have their NEA login information or their NEA Member number to speed up sign ups.

2024-04-27 17:29:39 UTC

Would this be great to mention that NEA created over 200 micro-credential topics to earn clock hours for free?

2024-04-27 17:31:50 UTC

Will all MC fit with the work I am doing in the classroom? If not, can I tweet the MC to what I am doing in the classroom?

2024-04-27 17:32:48 UTC

Who is grading, checking, and determining who passes?

Be intentional w/ participant engagement

2024-04-27 17:35:26 UTC

Slide 19 - asking participants what they are thinking, maybe choose 2-3 to share aloud?

Breakout Room Slide 18

2024-04-27 17:39:33 UTC

Structured explore time is important in self-selected groups, make sure to introduce yourself in the room and share out roles / what stack you might look at

Slide 18 - Before Break Out Room

2024-04-27 17:40:03 UTC

Open up the website to show how to access and explore during break out room

Additional time to look through the PDFs. Answering the questions in my head. What have I done? What do I want to do? What do I need to do?

2024-04-27 17:43:46 UTC

Faciliator Guide

2024-04-27 17:44:04 UTC

Using the notes for each slide is great to practice and read through before hand to help paraphrase into your own. Notes on guide help remind me important things to highlight

put support structure picture with text description on slide 22

dharada — 2024-04-27 18:05:30 UTC

maybe do the visual structure on slide 31

dharada — 2024-04-27 18:06:27 UTC

2024-04-27 18:09:01 UTC

Unfortunately, a lot of educators wait to the last minute to get the clock hours they need to certify. The poll is a good tool to use to get the clock hours through the WEA Micro-credential.

can we get test/demo accounts to show sign up process?

dharada — 2024-04-27 18:09:08 UTC

Plug that this is a "Free Benefit" with WEA Membership

2024-04-27 18:13:46 UTC

On slide 29, a paywall sometimes appears, but we remind the participants that this is actually a free offering. Another reason to keep our membership :)

2024-04-27 18:14:03 UTC

2024-04-27 18:17:18 UTC

Labor Acknowledgement

2024-04-27 18:22:47 UTC

No need for BoR that removes the people who have not yet attended orientation. Instead, provide the information overall

mjohnson1301 — 2024-04-27 18:43:56 UTC

Slide 8 Suggestion

2024-04-27 18:44:48 UTC

Perhaps a break out room (or an addition to a break out room) about resources used to complete the work in the micro-credential (example: Venngage.com to make infographics or one pagers)

Link video tutorials in participant slides

dharada — 2024-04-27 18:57:55 UTC

Link to how to turn PowerPoint slides into PDFs

2024-04-27 19:06:08 UTC

Include on MC tracking sheet? Or maybe link to helpful resources?

I wonder if the "Getting Started" BoR should be in the orientation, OR if the "Finishing and Refining" should be separate after the other BoR? Or... part of the consideration of the "office hour" ?? Since some participants may have already even completed their MC and just need the workshop...

2024-04-27 20:19:17 UTC

Eliminate or go through samples and grade to rubric to open up for feedback

2024-04-27 20:24:38 UTC

Give Examples of Context Data

2024-04-27 20:25:00 UTC

What kind of data to include with context? Some examples of data sources people can use

Get feedback about on revisions

2024-04-27 20:34:48 UTC

When resubmitting do they review the entire thing or the component they flagged

Make sure to stay in pdf and then submit to the dashboard via the website once the pdf/rubric is completed.

2024-04-27 20:35:48 UTC

Have participants help come up with examples of the 2 letter designation requirements and career-connection for a couple of the Micro-Credentials.

2024-04-27 20:57:52 UTC

Daniel wants us to look closer at slide 46 on :)

2024-04-27 21:04:49 UTC

Potentially create a one-pager for the participants to do the thinking on their own, but that provides participants a way to think how their work meets the definition/standard.

2024-04-27 21:12:43 UTC

Slide 60? Final Submission Email hooray!

2024-04-27 21:21:37 UTC

Add slide for the reminder of how to sign up and receive the 15 clock hours through WEA

2024-04-27 21:23:13 UTC

"How do I know I've signed up for clock hours?"

2024-04-27 21:27:38 UTC

Perhaps, a copy of the email from pd@washingtonea.org that shows the successful sign-up for a micro-credential

Is break necessary?

2024-04-27 22:13:29 UTC