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Micro Certificate: Scientific Thinking

Status: Earned


Issue Date: 04/18/2019

Issuer: National Institute for STEM Education

Recipient: Susan Arnette

The Scientific Thinking Micro Certificate requires successful completion of the courses Questioning Strategies and Addressing Misconceptions. Earners of this Micro Certificate have: 
  • Explored how to use educational taxonomies and question purposes to develop thoughtful questions,
  • Developed a customized Teacher Tool for planning purposeful questions,
  • Examined how to intentionally plan instruction that allows students to identify and resolve their own misconceptions,
  • Created a customized Teacher Tool for planning lessons that address common misconceptions.

Micro Certificate: Scientific Inquiry

Status: Earned


Issue Date: 05/31/2019

Issuer: National Institute for STEM Education

Recipient: Susan Arnette

The Scientific Inquiry Micro Certificate requires successful completion of the courses 5E Instructional Model and Scientific Investigations. Earners of this Micro Certificate have:
  • Learned how the 5E instructional model provides an easy-to-follow format for delivering constructivist learning,
  • Generated a personalized Teacher Tool for planning primary teacher and student behaviors throughout a 5E lesson,
  • Explored a broad, interdisciplinary definition of investigations,
  • Developed a customized Teacher Tool for supporting students' growth in designing and implementing their own investigations.

Micro Certificate: Scientific Argumentation

Status: Earned


Issue Date: 04/24/2020

Issuer: National Institute for STEM Education

Recipient: Susan Arnette

The Scientific Argumentation Micro Certificate requires successful completion of the courses Claim-Evidence-Reasoning and Argumentation. Earners of this Micro Certificate have:
  • Learned how the Claim-Evidence-Reasoning framework can be used to structure students' evidence-based explanations, 
  • Developed a personalized Teacher Tool for supporting students' growth in constructing evidence-based explanations,
  • Learned how to support students' positive views of argumentation and discourse,
  • Described students' current proficiency in argumentation and developed a personalized Teacher Tool for supporting students growth in argumentation.

Micro Certificate: Scientific Literacy

Status: Earned


Issue Date: 05/19/2020

Issuer: National Institute for STEM Education

Recipient: Susan Arnette

The Scientific Literacy Micro Certificate requires successful completion of the courses Reading in STEM and Writing in STEM. Earners of this Micro Certificate have:
  • Explored how primary and secondary text resources and a variety of comprehension strategies can be used to support students' learning,
  • Developed a personalized Teacher Tool to support students' independent selection of text and reading strategies,
  • Learned how writing strategies can be used to support students' learning of content,
  • Created a customized Teacher Tool to facilitate students' use of writing across content areas.

Micro Certificate: Scientific Innovation

Status: Earned


Issue Date: 07/02/2020

Issuer: National Institute for STEM Education

Recipient: Susan Arnette

The Scientific Innovation Micro Certificate requires successful completion of the courses Engineering Solutions and Technology Integration. Earners of this Micro Certificate have:
  • Explored how the Engineering Design Process can be applied to solve real-world problems,
  • Developed a personalized Teacher Tool for planning instruction with the Engineering Design Process,
  • Learned how to leverage technology to enhance student learning,
  • Created a Teacher Tool for planning technology-enhanced, standards-aligned classroom lessons.

Micro Certificate: Scientific Collaboration

Status: Earned


Issue Date: 07/09/2020

Issuer: National Institute for STEM Education

Recipient: Susan Arnette

The Scientific Collaboration Micro Certificate requires successful completion of the courses Cooperative Learning and Project-Based Learning. Earners of this Micro Certificate have:
  • Examined how increased opportunities for collaboration enhance students' workforce readiness,
  • Designed a personalized Teacher Tool for more purposeful, explicit teaching of social skills and collaboration protocols,
  • Determined students' current readiness for carrying our Project-Based Learning,
  • Developed a customized Teacher Tool for supporting students' use of Project-Based Learning given current readiness.

Micro Certificate: Establishing the Virtual Classroom

Status: Earned


Issue Date: 07/24/2020

Issuer: National Institute for STEM Education

Recipient: Susan Arnette

My NISE National Certificates

National Certificate: National Certificate for STEM Teaching

Status: Earned


Issue Date: 05/28/2019

Issuer: National Institute for STEM Education

Recipient: Susan Arnette

The National Certificate for STEM Teaching (NCST) requires successful completion of a coach-evaluated digital portfolio demonstrating the learner's understanding of 15 evidence-based STEM Teacher Actions. NCST graduates have: 
  • Collected evidence of 38 instructional Indicators embedded within the 15 STEM Teacher Actions, 
  • Analyzed the collected evidence against a rubric to determine the level of STEM instruction observed, 
  • Described the specific Teacher Actions that support higher levels of STEM instruction.