Supporting a Badge Earner

To earn the Fidelity of Implementation and Specialist credentials, evidence of skill and knowledge must be posted, and that evidence must be reviewed and approved by a SIM Professional Developer. Provide support to a micro-credential earner in the following way:

Visit:

Content Enhancement Credentials: https://www.badgelist.com/SIM-Content-Enhancement
Learning Strategies Credentials: https://www.badgelist.com/SIM-Learning-Strategies or https://www.badgelist.com
Additional-SIM-Credentials (for Xtreme Reading credentials): https://www.badgelist.com/Additional-SIM-Credentials

Scroll through to the credential your learner is working toward and click on it.
Scroll to the bottom of the credential to the “Members” section. Members appear alphabetically by first name. If the learner’s name does not appear, either KUCRL has not yet processed the order or the learner has not yet accepted the invitation.
Work with your learner to complete and upload the assigned evidence for each badge.
Encourage the learner to communicate with other learners using the Badge Wiki. More information about how to use the Badge Wiki can be found in the FAQ. Only learners and experts of the credential can post in the wiki or see these discussions.

Note: As a SIM Professional Developer, you are not required to join a specific strategy or routine credential to view and support your learners’ progress. However, you may want to join the specific credential and post evidence as an example for learners and to show more and deeper evidence of your expertise in a specific strategy or routine than is possible on your Professional Developer Credential badge. In this case, KUCRL will award the credentials to active SIM Professional Developers free of charge.

Resources

Badge List Technical Tips

Badge List provides a place to organize evidence of your work. You may choose to type that evidence directly into a “Required Evidence” section (as when you post the name of your professional developer or a description or narrative), but much of your evidence is actually going to be stored elsewhere (video, pdf documents, images).

Video: Upload video to a cloud-hosting site like Vimeo, or YouTube using privacy settings that provide a private link to view the video, keeping it unlisted on the public website. You will then post the link to the video in the evidence section, along with any comments you wish to include.

You can post TEXT, a LINK, IMAGE, FILE, TWEET, or an EMBED code from a Powtoon, YouTube, TikTok, etc.

Specialist Resources Pages

Once your mentee has been awarded the Specialist micro-credential they will have access to a resource page containing the same resources available to professional developers for that strategy or routine in SIMville.

Specialist Resources Home Page — Visit the Home Page

LS Specialist Resources Example — Specific Specialist Resource pages are not public. If you wish to be added to a specialist page, let us know, email simpd@ku.edu.

Exploring the Role of Feedback and its Impact Within a Digital Badge System from Multiple Perspectives: A Case Study of Preservice Teachers

Overview of SIM CER Micro-credentials

Overview of SIM LS Micro-Credentials

SIM CER Specialist Mentor Checklist

SIM LS Specialist Mentor Checklist

Florida CER Specialist Mentor Checklist

Florida LS Specialist Mentor Checklist

Florida Specialist Checklist

Modeling Checklist

Reflective Questions to Consider for your e-Portfolio

SIM Micro-credential Notebook CE Checklist/Table of Contents - NC CLC Project, Jordan/Leitzell 2015

SIM Micro-credential Notebook LS Checklist/Table of Contents - NC CLC Project, Jordan.Leitzell 2015

How to coach Micro-credentials

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