Digital Badges
The Merrimack Institute for New Teacher Support (MINTS) partners with the College’s O’Brien Center for Career Development to offer a number of digital badges.
Each badge has its own unique learning goals and earning criteria.
Digital badges can be used in email signatures, on digital resumes, and be shared through social media accounts such as LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter.
Once earned and issued, this digital image contains verified metadata that describes your qualifications and the process required to earn them.
Representing your skills through a badge gives you yet another way to share your abilities through an online platform that is simple, industry trusted, and can be easily verified in real-time.
For more information on digital badges, please contact The O’Brien Center, [email protected]
Sample Badge Offerings
Educational Technology Strategies Badge
23 hours of content, 16 items: The School of Education and Social Policy offers this learning pathway to educators looking to strengthen the use of technology in their classroom and learn about new trends, strategies, and platforms for student learning and engagement.
Participants must complete 8 hours of content to earn the Educational Technology badge. A Pacing Guide is included in section descriptions.
This training offers educators at all levels tools and strategies for effective student learning, engagement, and assessment in an online environment.
Classroom Essentials Badge
10 hours of content, 14 items: The School of Education and Social Policy offers this learning pathway designed to help participants develop skills in the fundamentals of student learning, engagement, and assessment.
Participants must complete 6 hours of content to earn the Classroom Essentials badge. A Pacing Guide is included in section descriptions.
Participants who earn this badge receive information on the foundational skills, knowledge, and strategies needed to begin a career in education.
Educational Technology Strategies Badge
23 hours of content, 16 items: The School of Education and Social Policy is excited to offer this learning pathway to educators looking to strengthen the use of technology in their classroom and learn about new trends, strategies, and platforms for student learning and engagement.
Participants must complete 8 hours of content to earn the Educational Technology badge. A Pacing Guide is included in section descriptions.
Participants who earn this badge are teachers of all levels, interested in the tools and strategies needed for student learning, engagement, and assessment in an online environment.
Civic & Community Engagement Badge
MINTS is excited to offer the leaning pathway to educators seeking to strengthen their Community Engagement skills.
Participants must complete at least five Civic Engagement asynchronous modules (the introduction module and four elective modules) through a Google Classroom. Each module includes videos, activities, assessments, and resource materials.
Participants who earn this badge will demonstrate growth in their careers as civic-minded educators as they reflect on their own learning experiences and create lessons that bring civic engagement into their own classrooms.
