Earning badges while you grow your teaching practice
We hope to help you and those impacted by your work recognize your contributions to the teaching and learning ecosystem at Georgian (and other places).
Our badging system honours growth in skills and competence rather than tracking set hours or workshops. In other words, this system is meant to recognize your professional learning on an individual path at your own pace. We are all on our own teaching journey.
We are working to tag our professional learning opportunities in order to help you make decisions related to your educator growth. Our badges are connected with the following tagging system:
| COMPETENCY | Emerging (E)
*recognizing the importance |
Performing (P)
*doing it |
Transforming (T)
*impacting the ecosystem |
| Designer (DE) | Designer – Emerging
DE-E
|
Designer – Performing
DE-P
|
Designer – Transforming
DE-T
|
| Researcher (RE) | Researcher – Emerging
RE-E
|
Researcher – Performing
RE-P
|
Researcher – Transforming
RE-T
|
| Inclusive Practitioner (IP) | Inclusive Practitioner – Emerging
IP-E
|
Inclusive Practitioner – Performing
IP-P
|
Inclusive Practitioner – Transforming
IP-T
|
| Changemaker (CH) | Changemaker – Emerging
CH-E
|
Changemaker – Performing
CH-P
|
Changemaker – Transforming
CH-T |
| Digital Navigator (DN) | Digital Navigator – Emerging
DN-E
|
Digital Navigator – Performing
DN-P
|
Digital Navigator – Transforming
DN-T
|
| Collaborator (CO) | Collaborator – Emerging
CO-E
|
Collaborator – Performing
CO-P
|
Collaborator – Transforming
CO-T
|
| Reflector (RF) | Reflector – Emerging
RF-E
|
Reflector – Performing
RF-P
|
Reflector – Transforming
RF-T
|
| Mentor (ME) | Mentor – Emerging
ME-E
|
Mentor – Performing
ME-P
|
Mentor – Transforming
ME-T
|
We will also honour the amazing competency work you have done outside of Georgian. For example, if you have taken the eCampus Ontario Empowered Educator modules, you are clearly working towards your Performing badges in many of our competencies. We hope to curate with you the kinds of amazing professional learning opportunities for educators available outside of Georgian.
How our badging system works
Georgian’s badging system is faculty driven. It is meant to be used by you for you to demonstrate your growth in your teaching competence and toolkit.
Follow these steps to earn badges and the Georgian College Innovative Faculty Certificate:
- explore the competencies and related criteria and competency statements
- consider how you align with a particular badge you are interested in receiving
- collect artefacts / exemplars (e.g. a syllabus, an assignment, a lesson plan, a scaffolded lesson sequence, a teaching and learning activity, a statement shared with students, an early communication video, an announcement, etc. – there are so many options) to show how you are demonstrating this competency
- write your story about how you are demonstrating the competency and attach your artefacts / examples [note: you can tell your story in any way that works for you – write it, say it, represent it]
- when you have created your story that shows how you align or extend the faculty competency criteria, and have collected and curated your examples, click “submit” to earn your badge.
- earn the Transformative Badge in the eight competencies and you can apply for the Georgian College Innovative Faculty
- continue to grow your practice in the remaining competencies and earn annual stamp recognition.
Note, you can enter the competency framework at any stage. You do not have to backtrack to earn badges. If you are a Transformative Changemaker or Transformative Researcher, you can apply for the badge at that growth stage.
In the chapters that follow, please explore the eight competencies, and the related criteria.
Any questions? Email Tracy Mitchell-Ashley or Iain Robertson for more information.
