How to earn this micro-credential badge
Micro-credentials in the SIM series enable teachers to verify skills in delivering instruction of the SIM Learning Strategies and Content Enhancement Routines and other educational programs offered through the University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning. To earn the micro-credential badge:
- Click the green “join this badge” button and sign up/sign in if needed.
- Post your evidence specified in the “Required Evidence” section by clicking on the blue “Post” buttons, or you can click into the Evidence section and post from there.
The ORDER Routine responds to three priorities teachers have identified for their students: the ability to form relationships within information sets, the ability to organize information, and the ability to create visual devices for learning. Through use of the ORDER Routine, students learn to identify how information in a reading passage or lecture is structured. The routine helps students decide what information is important; determine whether it is best organized in a sequential, descriptive, compare-and-contrast, or problem-solution format; depict key pieces of information and their relationships in a graphic organizer; explain the organizer to others; and use the organizer to prepare for tests or reports.
In one study of the effectiveness of the ORDER ROUTINE, tests measured students' ability to recognize the expository relationships among content in a reading passage and to create appropriate graphic organizers for the content. Students who learned to use the routine earned significantly higher scores than those who did not.Communicate with other badge earners on the Badge Wiki.
