Teaching

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the steps and characteristics required for becoming a teacher including personal characteristic and attribute requirements, process for preparation, interacting with teacher organizations, ethical requirements, and impact of the organization and governance of the education system in the United States.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain differing strategies for curriculum and instruction including related benefits and criticisms of each strategy.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain differing theories on how people learn.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to outline the role of American schools in society including how success and failure of schools can be measured.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the proposals and challenges associated with school reform.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain various strategies for assessing students including the purposes, benefits, and criticism of each method.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain student diversity as it relates to effective teaching strategies, teaching challenges, and effective teaching of students with special needs.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the important legal issues and requirements for teachers and schools.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain historical milestones in education that have brought the US educational system to where it is today.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the different philosophies of education including how educational philosophy can be implemented in the classroom and why it is important to have a personal philosophy.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain strategies and challenges for creating a positive and engaging learning environment.