Microcredentialing
The IEECE’s digital badging system visually shows identified education pathways that move students forward to achieving proficiency in employability skills necessary for all teaching professionals in the field.
The pathways consist of trainings and noncredit college courses designed to strengthen classroom teachers’ employability skills. These skills are highly valued by employers for fostering quality learning environments, appreciated by parents for promoting positive teacher-child interactions and embraced by teachers who can carry their professional growth wherever their careers lead.
In recognition of successful learning, there is financial recognition awarded for each badge on a pathway and again when the pathway is completed and the microcredential is achieved.
How Microcredentialing Works
Students earn a badge by completing a series of grouped noncredit trainings within a specific pathway. After earning all required badges and completing a related portfolio, they receive a microcredential. Eligible early childhood professionals—working at least 20 hours per week in a publicly funded or subsidized program in Palm Beach County—may also receive financial recognition upon completion of each badge and microcredential. This recognition is awarded three times per year, at the end of each semester.
Learn how to access and use Badgr for micro-credentialing, in this step-by-step video.
There are 12 pathways:
- Decision-Making: Core knowledge and skills in essentialism, time management, data-driven decision-making and marketing.
- Awareness and Balance: Knowledge and understanding of how to live a stress-free life using mindfulness practices and other healthy exercises.
- Lesson Planning: Foundational knowledge and strategies in lesson planning for the areas of STEAM, language, literacy, writing, science and social-emotional learning.
- Problem-Solving: Fundamental problem-solving skills and strategies for behavior management and STEAM integration.
- Self-Regulation: Essential knowledge and strategies for fostering safety, building connections and developing executive function.
- Reflection: Foundational knowledge and skills in reflecting on self, children and the environment.
- Creativity: Essential knowledge and strategies to help practitioners design learning experiences that foster children's self-expression and creativity.
- Observation and Feedback: Strategies for leaders to observe, give feedback and build a coaching culture that supports children's learning.
- Adapt Lessons: Core skills for integrating language, literacy, science and math into routines to support children’s needs.
- English Language Acquisition for Adults: Academic English skills for real-world communication practice in early childhood settings.
- Cultivating Belonging: Knowledge and skills in children’s social identity development, promoting fairness and building respectful relationships.
- Classroom Assessment: Understanding and applying the CLASS tool effectively in preschool settings.
Click on each badge below to view the pathway:
