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Graduate Microcredential available fully online
Education Essentials: Assessment Strategies and Technology Integration
Earn Your Microcredential Online in Just Two Courses
The Graduate Microcredential in Assessment Strategies and Technology Integration equips students with essential competencies for working in education today. Utilizing technology and assessment appropriately helps educators meet the needs of all students. These courses expand educators’ understanding of the use of technology as an instructional tool, as well as the purposes, types, and uses of assessment.
In just two classes, you will earn a microcredential, which is offered fully online! Both classes apply to our Master of Arts in Teaching program for initial licensure programs (elementary and secondary). They also are two of the core courses in our MA in Educational Studies program. You can apply these two courses to either track should you desire to continue your education at St. Thomas.
Learning outcomes include:
- Identify the role assessment plays in perpetuating institutional norms or social justice
- Apply assessment strategies to evaluate student learning
- Interpret assessment results to inform equitable classroom instruction and for communication with students, parents, and colleagues
- Describe current issues related to assessment in schools
- Understand the implications of the standards of a discipline on student learning, the design of curricular units of instruction, and the role teachers play in scaffolding student thinking
- Learn to use technology to improve instruction and meet students’ needs
- Learn to use technology to assess instruction and student understanding
- Understand learning theories, philosophies, and implications related to technology
- Integrate technology into a learning plan (lesson plan)
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Required Courses for the Graduate Microcredential
To complete the Graduate Microcredential in Assessment Strategies and Technology Integration, you must complete the following two required graduate education courses (6 graduate semester credits):
TEGR 551: Learning Design with Technology
This course examines learning theories, philosophies and their implications on the use of technology, as well as the history and development of learning technologies. Additionally, students will examine current trends and future challenges in education technology. Students will learn a variety of learning technologies and advocate sound integration of technology into curriculum. Issues on the design, development, and implementation of technology will be discussed. Students will integrate learning technologies into their curriculum planning in the specific content areas that address student needs and meet with the technology or content standards.
CIED 670: Assessment for Learning
This course focuses on the purposes and types of assessment used in school settings to understand and document student achievement. Course participants explore guiding principles for classroom assessment, articulate achievement targets, develop assessment methods, including performance assessment, portfolios, etc. aligned with achievement targets, and create effective methods for communicating about students' learning.
Flexible Online Program with Streamlined Admissions
This fully online microcredential offers a mix of synchronous and asynchronous classes that allow you to achieve your educational goals. You can start any term and complete in one to two semesters, depending on which term you start and when classes are offered.
Admission Requirements
Convenient Schedule
Our microcredentials serve working professionals with busy lives.
You can start your program in fall, spring or summer semesters.