NSTA is launching a new badging system designed to recognize educators’ professional learning through competency-based, verifiable digital badges. Join the NSTA Professional Learning team to learn what badges are, how they connect to professional learning, what it means to demonstrate competency, and how badges can be shared within your professional network.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will leave with an understanding of NSTA’s new badging system, how competency-based badges are earned, and how digital badges can be used to document and share professional learning.

SPEAKERS:
Brianna Reilly Oliveira

How do students come to see themselves as people who can do STEM? When do they start to see STEM spaces as the place where they belong? In this session, participants will explore what STEM identity is and how students’ multiple identities, along with classroom experiences and teachers’ instructional choices, shape their STEM Identity. This session provides an entry point to NSTA’s learning module, Supporting Student Development of Science and STEM Identity. Build on your experiences in this live session to complete this learning module and earn a verifiable, competency-based badge as a part of the first pilot program. The brand-new NSTA badging system gives you a chance to deepen your knowledge and skills, demonstrate your learning, and share evidence of your professional growth.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants leave with a clearer understanding of how students develop STEM identity and an opportunity to join the pilot group for NSTA’s brand-new badging system.

SPEAKERS:
Brianna Reilly Oliveira

Don’t let engineering activities feel like an add-on at the end of a lesson! Integrating engineering into three-dimensional science classrooms creates engaging and meaningful STEM learning opportunities and helps students develop skills that are essential for career and workforce readiness. In this interactive session, participants will explore the connections between the Science and Engineering Practices and durable skills, and consider how students use both as they engineer solutions to real-world problems. This session provides an entry point to NSTA’s learning module, Integrating Engineering Practices and Career Competencies into Science Classrooms. Build on your experience in this live session to complete this learning module and earn a verifiable, competency-based badge as a part of the first pilot program. The brand-new NSTA badging system gives you a chance to deepen your knowledge and skills, demonstrate your learning, and share evidence of your professional growth.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants develop an understanding of how integrated engineering tasks promote the development of durable skills and leave with an opportunity to join the pilot group for NSTA’s brand-new badging system.

SPEAKERS:
Brianna Reilly Oliveira

Complex real-world problems rarely fit neatly within a single subject area. In this session, participants will explore a transdisciplinary approach to STEM teaching and learning. In transdisciplinary STEM learning, students develop and use ideas from multiple subject areas to solve authentic problems, creating opportunities to build skills that support future learning and workforce readiness. Participants will work together to understand the benefits and challenges of transdisciplinary learning. This session provides an entry point to NSTA’s learning module, Transdisciplinary Learning: Working Across Disciplines to Address Complex Real-World Problems. Build on your experience in this live session to complete this learning module and earn a verifiable, competency-based badge as a part of the first pilot program. The brand-new NSTA badging system gives you a chance to deepen your knowledge and skills, demonstrate your learning, and share evidence of your professional growth.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants leave with a clearer understanding of transdisciplinary learning and an opportunity to join the pilot group for NSTA’s brand-new badging system.

SPEAKERS:
Brianna Reilly Oliveira

There are countless STEM lessons available for you to use, and it can be difficult to know which are best designed to support your students. High-Quality Instructional Materials (HQIM) for STEM create meaningful opportunities for students to build and apply disciplinary learning and develop durable skills. This session introduces NSTA’s digital, asynchronous learning module, Becoming a Critical Consumer of STEM Instructional Materials. After this session, participants are invited to complete this learning module and earn a verifiable, competency-based badge as a part of the first pilot program. The brand-new NSTA badging system gives you a chance to deepen your knowledge and skills, demonstrate your learning, and share evidence of your professional growth through the digital badge.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants understand the learning targets for this asynchronous learning module, and are invited to join the pilot group for NSTA’s brand-new badging system.

SPEAKERS:
Brianna Reilly Oliveira