TLDE offers digital credentials to our faculty and staff to recognize key skills and experiences. These badges are provided through Credly and can be posted on social media, faculty and staff profile pages on GRCC's website, and email signatures to showcase their achievements to a wider audience.
Digital badges have three components:
- An image that represents the badge on your Credly profile, social media such as LinkedIn, and elsewhere
- A description of how the badge is earned and what it recognizes
- An outline of the skills that the badge earner has demonstrated
View GRCC’s institutional Credly profile
Tailor-Fit Pathway Badges
TLDE’s Tailor-Fit Pathway Badges lead you through a series of workshops and other learning opportunities to gain deep experience, insight, and practical applications of teaching and learning principles to your teaching practice.
TLDE has assigned point values and badge pathway designations to many of our professional development opportunities. To earn a badge, simply complete opportunities to earn 10 points in that pathway. Note: Some sessions qualify for multiple pathways. Points from these sessions may only be used toward one badge.
When you’ve completed a tailor-fit badge pathway, use this Google form to let TLDE know! We’ll review and issue your badge
Visit the TLDE Events page for descriptions and registration information for TLDE programming.
Barrier Buster
The Barrier Buster badge is awarded to educators committed to creating an environment where all students can learn. Earners of this badge have gained first-hand experience with the principles and guidelines of the Universal Design for Learning framework.
Earn this badge
- Teaching All Learners: Universal Design for Learning (2 points)
- A 90-minute facilitated session available to departments on demand
- Teaching with Universal Design for Learning (6 points)
- A self-paced asynchronous course in the LMS
- Action Research project focused on UDL (4 points)
- Implementation of a new UDL strategy or course design element (2 points)
- Attend PD series with Barrier Buster designation (6 points)
- Attend PD session with Barrier Buster designation (1 point)
- Facilitate PD session for GRCC focused on UDL (2 points per new session)
Tech Savvy
The Tech Savvy badge recognizes educators who are agile users of instructional technology tools. From AI to student video, online discussions, and more, earners of this badge have practiced and integrated instructional technologies to enhance instruction, student learning, motivation, and engagement.
Earn this badge
- Uncovering AI (2 points)
- Panopto Training (2 points)
- Google Workspace for Educators (2 points)
- Try Your Hand at HyFlex (2 points)
- Action Research project focused on instructional technology (4 points)
- Implementation of a new instructional technology (2 points)
- Attend PD series with Tech Savvy designation (6 points)
- Attend PD session with Tech Savvy designation (1 point)
- Facilitate PD session for GRCC focused on instructional technology (2 points per new session)
Responsive Educator
A Responsive Educator integrates social-emotional learning to cultivate an inclusive and empowered learning community. This badge indicates earners have focused professional learning on responsive practices such as compassionate communication, building a prosocial classroom culture, fostering student belonging and self-efficacy.
Earn this badge
- Create a TLDE Tip on a Responsive Educator practice (2 points)
- Action Research project focused on Blended Learning (4 points)
- Implementation of a new Responsive Educator strategy or course design element (2 points)
- Attend PD series with Responsive Educator designation (6 points)
- Attend PD session with Responsive Educator designation (1 point)
- Facilitate PD session for GRCC focused on educator responsiveness (2 points per new session)
Distance Education Champion
A Distance Education Champion is an ambassador for excellence in distance education at GRCC. These faculty show commitment to quality instruction across distance modalities and tools. Earners of this badge have completed in-depth training in distance instruction and have explored principles of effective pedagogy and practice in distance modalities.
Earn this badge
- OHCC (6 points)
- Points are awarded for prior completion.
- Try Your Hand at HyFlex (2 points)
- Action Research project focused on online/hybrid/virtual/hyflex teaching (4 points)
- Implementation of a new online/hybrid/virtual/hyflex strategy or course design element (2 points)
- Attend PD session with Distance Learning designation (1 point)
- Facilitate PD session for GRCC focused on Distance Learning (2 points per new session)
Alignment Architect
The Alignment Architect badge recognizes knowledge and skill in course mapping and design. In this pathway, you’ll learn about the concept of alignment and about breaking course-level objectives into weekly- or module-level objectives, aligning activities, materials, and assessments to these objectives. This workshop oriented pathway includes a “course map jam” where faculty create course maps to help build courses in Canvas.
This badge can be earned at Summer Teaching & Learning Institute 2024!
Earn this badge
- Stay on Target: Aligning Outcomes for Deeper Learning
- Course Map Jam Session (pt. 1)
- Assessing General Education Outcomes
- And two (2) of the following:
- Course Map Jam Session (pt. 2)
- Life-Changing Experiences: Creating Great Course Content through Study Away
- Assessment: It’s Easier than You Think
- Guiding Departments through Assessment Planning
Feedback
Share your experience with TLDE about a new strategy or course design element you used from one of our badging pathways.