TeachThought - Learn better.
MAY 12, 2020
Competency-Based Learning. Competency-Based Education is something I’m hearing more and more about, which is neither bad nor good, but worth understanding more carefully. Comparing an unsupported MOOC from 2008 to an in-person college experience isn’t apples to apples.
Turning Learning On Its Head
MARCH 13, 2016
During the 2007-2008 school year, Aaron Sams and I pioneered the flipped class model of education. In 2011, a group of educators met at the Competency Based Learning Summit. During that Summit, the leaders identified five key tenets of Competency Based Learning (CBL): Students advance upon mastery.
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Edsurge
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
Since the 2008 Time magazine cover story on Washington, D.C. That made fiscal and pedagogical sense. Under the ed reform push to get public money in private hands, some very powerful people want teachers to shut up and do as we are told.
eSchool News
MARCH 4, 2024
They’ve shrunk because there are fewer students thanks to a broader demographic decline in new births that began in 2008 and hasn’t changed. They’ve lost students, particularly in urban and high-poverty districts, to other schools. They’ve struggled with chronic absenteeism.
Edsurge
JULY 10, 2017
During visits to two schools in Baltimore County Public Schools (BCPS), I was struck by how innovating where the alternative for students is nothing at all is still relevant, years after we wrote about the idea in “ Disrupting Class ” in 2008. The school’s graduating class this summer had an 89.8
MindShift
JULY 9, 2015
If a student fails to learn a skill, he or she accepts that result and moves on to the next topic with the rest of the class. Competency-based learning, on the other hand, insists on mastery of subjects and provides students the time to learn; the students are not marched past failure.
ExcelinEd
JUNE 10, 2019
This means schools will be able to look beyond the classroom for new learning experiences. Colorado has long been a leader in innovation, and the High School Innovative Learning Pilot Program is the perfect next step for the state. Building on 10 Years of Experience.
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