The Microsoft Certified Educator (MCE) is a professional development program that bridges the gap between technology skills and innovative teaching. Educators holding a MCE certification can prove they have the skills needed to provide rich, customized learning experiences for their students that incorporate critical 21st century skills using Microsoft tools.
Candidates for this exam include individuals preparing to become classroom educators, current educators, faculty at teacher training or pre-service colleges, educational administrators, or other professionals looking to provide validation of competency.
The MCE: Technology Literacy for Educators certification test is an intermediate-level examination intended to be a valid and reliable measure of competencies as measured by the 21st Century Learning Design (21CLD) framework.
- SKILLS MEASURED -
A. Facilitate Student Collaboration
- Determine the level to which a learning activity meets the rubric for collaboration.
- Prepare activites that enable students to work together, have a shared responsibility for deliverables, make decisions that are substantive and crucial to learning activity success, and work interdependently.
- Analyze, evaluate, design, and manage the learning environment to facilitate student collaboration, given a set of resources available in a classroom.
- Virtual environment; physical environment; software tools available.
B. Facilitate Skilled Communication- Modify a learning activity to meet the rubric for the highest level of skilled communication.
- Prepare activities that enable students to create product deliverables that convey a set of connected ideas, are multimodal, require supporting evidence, and are designed for a specific audience.
- Evaluate student product examples to determine the level to which they meet the skilled communication rubric.
- Evaluate student product examples on the use of connected ideas, multimodal approach, supporting evidence, and design for a specific audience.
C. Facilitate Knowledge Construction
