Learn Strategy (SP) Public

Strategic Instruction Model™ Learning Strategies

Earned through demonstration of competence n instructing a teacher to use the strategy with students.

Required Evidence

1. Partner with Active SIM Professional Developer

List the name of your Professional Developer(s). More Info

2. Teach the Strategy with Fidelity

Teach the strategy in its entirety to a person or class, following the instructional steps in the manual (*may link to Fidelity of Implementation (FI) evidence if you've already earned this badge). More Info

3. Portfolio of Implementation Showing Fidelity

Submit your portfolio of implementation (*may link to Fidelity of Implementation (FI) Credential evidence if you've already earned this badge). More Info

4. Supporting Observation/Video Showing Fidelity

Submit supporting Observation and/or Video (*may link to Fidelity of Implementation (FI) Credential evidence if you've already earned this badge). More Info

5. Student Portfolio Showing Evidence of Fidelity

Submit a student portfolio (*may link to Fidelity of Implementation (FI) Credential evidence if you've already earned this badge). More Info

6. Instruct a Teacher

Guide another instructor through the Strategy in its entirety. Help them to follow the instructional steps in the manual. Post a completed student progress chart (with student identifying information removed). More Info

7. Describe your Coaching

Submit a description of your coaching with the instructor before and after implementation. What were the successes? What were the challenges? How did the two of you problem solve issues? What Adjustments did you make? More Info

8. Describe Their Implementation

Describe implementation in the instructor's class with student(s) What were the successes? What were the challenges? How did the two of you problem solve the issues? What adjustments did you make? More Info

9. Completion Date

Submit your completion date and then click on the "request feedback" button. More Info

Extra: Student Interview

Interview a student about learning and implementation of the strategy and submit video or written report on the interview. More Info

Badge Overview

About This Strategy
The LEARN Strategy was designed to enable students to work in teams to learn together. Each step promotes creative cooperation; students think together to generate ideas to help them learn. Students learn how to organize information both as members of a team and as independent learnersResearch results indicated that students in the experimental classes performed a significantly higher percentage of study behaviors than comparison students in their cooperative study groups at the end of the school year. Experimental group pretest scores averaged 18 percent and posttest scores averaged 70 percent. The comparison group pretest scores averaged 27 percent and posttest scores averaged 35 percent.

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.
  • Notify your SIM Professional Developer partner when you have completed posting your evidence, that is who will give final approval and award the badge.  

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 about your work), but much of your evidence will be stored elsewhere (longer documents, video, pdf documents, images, spreadsheets, etc.) and linked into your badge.   

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 that video in the evidence section, along with any comments you wish to include.  

Documents, Image files, spreadsheets, PDF files, etc: 
 You will upload your document, image file, pdf, spreadsheet, etc. to a cloud-hosting site. You will then post the link in the evidence section, along with any comments you wish to include.  We have found Google Drive to be a really simple tool for accomplishing this, but Drop Box or File Dropper or any file storage site that gives you a link to your file works.    

To use Google Drive
 to post documents, images , spreadsheets, pdf, etc.: 
  • Open Google Drive
  • Hit the red “New” button
  • Select “File Upload” and choose the file you wish to upload
  • Click on “Share”
  • Get Shareable Link
  • Paste the link into your evidence section along with any comments you wish to include.

Communicate with other badge earners on the Badge Wiki 

Contribute to a current wiki:
  • Click on the "View Badge WIki" button below this Badge Overview.
  • Hit "Edit" in the upper right corner.
  • Type into the Page Body.
  • Hit "Save Changes" at the bottom of the page.
Create a New Wiki Topic
  • Think of a one or two word title for your new wiki. Example: Hotel TIps.
  • Go to the browser address bar above.
  • Change current url by ERASING "wiki-instructions" and typing the name of your wiki:
From:
http://www.badgelist.com/sim/2015-sim-conference-participant/wiki-instructions
To:
http://www.badgelist.com/sim/2015-sim-conference-participant/hotel-tips

  • Use a dash between words.
  • Hit "return".
  • "Start" the new wiki.
  • Type in your message.
  • Choose who can contribute to the wiki.
  • Hit the "Create Page" button at the bottom of the page.
Contact simpd@ku.edu with questions.

Badge Experts

 

SIM PD

KUCRL

Created badge on 6/13/15
 

Susan Trumbo

strumbo

Badge awarded on 11/15/18

Badge Learners

 

Sheryl Bartkowski

Sheryl1

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Joined badge on 4/24/18