NDE1018: Highly Effective Teaching Practices Pathway: Progressively Designed Instruction Microcredential

This course is appropriate for classroom teachers.

Highly effective teaching practices (e.g., ensuring students are familiar with classroom norms and expectations, designing progressive instructional experiences for students, explaining and modeling lessons and structures, questioning to provoke students to think deeply and share their thinking aloud) are practices that, when used consistently, support students’ social and emotional development; are impactful across ability levels, subject areas, and grade levels; and are essential for advancing students toward growth and mastery. Progressive instructional design involves planning lessons in a sequence intended to advance learning with lessons that build on prior knowledge and experiences. When educators use highly effective teaching practices along with systematic, progressive lesson design, students are able to achieve academic success in a positive atmosphere conducive to social and emotional health. This microcredential focuses on an educator's ability to systematically design progressive instruction using highly effective teaching practices that aim students towards mastery of specific learning goals.