The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Questions Answered on Today's Show What is competency-based (or mastery-based) learning? Nicki Slaugh, principal of Quest Academy, explains the concept of competency-based learning and how it differs from traditional education models. What are the common misconceptions about competency-based learning?

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

It’s no longer what happens in the learning environment, but what happens when edtech comes into the mix and how we can enrich that environment. Here are a few ideas on using edtech to promote growth mindset: Showing progress through competency-based learning. Read more: The PROs and CONs of competency-based learning.

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Edsurge

MAY 22, 2017

Principal Chris Huckans believes that competency-based education (CBE) is one of the keys to the school’s success. Huckans says that Bishop Hall’s use of the Brightspace learning management system provides students with highly personalized learning pathways, which “allow them to innovate and experiment.”

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 23, 2022

Using edtech to personalize education for students is already something that many educators do by incorporating technology in teaching activities , such as: Learning management systems (LMSs). Online games and assessments. What are the benefits of creating a personalized learning environment? Competency-based learning.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 4, 2018

In previous generations, the “organize and sort” method, typified by an A-F grading scale, was the most thorough manner of assessing students given the lack of unifying systems that could track and chart specific skill development. So what school-wide practices support true competency-based education?

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Neo LMS

MAY 10, 2022

The main ways to identify learning gaps are through observation and evaluation: Observation enables you to understand which students are up-to-date with their learning goals and have acquired the skills they need based on the curriculum. This is where learning gaps come to light. Use competency-based learning.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2020

Her teacher has embraced competency-based learning, which asks students to take more control in the classroom. Those contrasting experiences made her believe that one-size-fits-all educational systems don’t work. By 2015, Taymore decided she needed a system with an organizing principle. MELROSE, Mass.

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Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

One thing that I’ve been thrilled about is that technology and online learning have really supported these students to continue their education, even though the pandemic disrupted many systems and processes. Competency-based learning. NEO Guide: Competency-based learning. Conclusion.

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

There are three core aspects that define a personalized learning platform: each student must be able to define their own learning goals within it, receive recommendations based on their learning journey and have their progress clearly assessed so that they can see their progress. Assessments.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2017

Does competency-based education hold the key to providing an equitable learning opportunity to every student? As she puts it, competency-based learning “gives students the chance. Equity was a major driver in implementing competency based learning. It’s everyone getting what they need.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 7, 2019

And learner centric is kind of even more important than adaptive learning or personalized learning. So this generation, which is used to that in other spheres of life, naturally expect to see this personalization when they are learning something. Competency-based learning.

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Neo LMS

APRIL 5, 2022

Especially during the past two years, the interest and necessity of online learning have skyrocketed. . Students have continued pursuing their studies despite prolonged lockdowns through platforms such as learning management systems (LMSs) and video conferencing software. Let’s see what features it takes from each one: .

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

These activities’ requirements are a video conferencing tool that preferably integrates with your learning management system (LMS) and basic knowledge of creating online lessons, which the LMS already enables teachers to do. 5 More principles of effective online instruction. Aim for a high success rate.

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Neo LMS

APRIL 6, 2017

In a previous post I talked about competency-based learning and how this might be the ultimate approach to education. Students attend courses, do assignments, get credits and eventually graduate based on what they know, not on how much time it took them to gain that knowledge. What’s in it for educational institutions.

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Marketplace K-12

JUNE 9, 2017

A new online guide offers resources for K-12 districts trying to implement competency-based learning—and it offers a primer for K-12 companies on those systems' most pressing needs. The post ‘Toolkit’ Breaks Down K-12 Districts’ Shifts Into Competency-Based Learning appeared first on Market Brief.

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 6, 2019

This practice has researchers wondering whether we should rethink the traditional grading system. Learning management systems (LMSs) have improved a lot in the past years, and continue to do so. It is important to have many assessment types if you want to keep everything online. Flexibility in grading options. Conclusion.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 6, 2023

At the height of COVID-19, many schools weren’t able to undertake the full process of selecting and implementing a learning management system (LMS), even if they knew that this step would be foundational to achieving their vision for student learning. The COVID-19 pandemic offers an apt example of this mentality.

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Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2020

As a flurry of schools have shifted to a pass-fail grading system for the current semester, some institutions have balked at the prospect of accepting these non-letter grades. To help see why, consider that traditional colleges and universities are locked into a system that pays them by the credit hour. Dude, Where’s My Credit?

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Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

This is an excellent way of identifying if there are any sections that students might be struggling with, for example, an assessment that they can’t get past. Read more: What works for tracking student progress in online learning. Assessment analytics. Read more: Teacher tricks: Grading & assessment.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 25, 2018

As K–12 institutions digitally progress, slow data sharing between parents, teachers and administrators is leaving all players increasingly frustrated as they are forced to wait for important information sent through what is quickly becoming an outdated system. This is not just a hypothetical example. by Eli Zimmerman.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The rigid structure of the traditional K-12 education system leaves little room for students to engage in real-world problem-solving scenarios. That’s why I’m a fan of personalized and competency-based learning environments, in which young people do learn these skills.

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2018

Little did I know this experience would eventually propel me to help develop a school operating system that tackles technology issues plaguing educators and supports them with more opportunities to offer individualized instruction. At the time, I had no idea this system was called “standards-based grading.”

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Neo LMS

JUNE 21, 2022

That’s why the education system needs to understand that children are not born with these skills. In this article, we’ll discuss executive functioning skills and their importance as well as ways to teach them with the help of your learning management system (LMS). What are the most important executive functioning skills?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 22, 2019

Learning is personalized, based on school standards. Students who don’t understand a topic and don’t do well on the summative assessment for that subject, aren’t automatically moved on because time allotted for that topic ran out. Assessments are competency-based and referenced to school learning criteria.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 8, 2016

Studies suggest American schools invest $18 billion in teachers’ professional learning annually. And while teachers are also learning in informal ways, existing systems don’t track or make the most of that growth. . Enter micro-credentials : competency-based recognition for educator learning that is supported by digital badges.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 1, 2021

But what about CEO and founder Sal Khan’s broader goal of changing the education system, by basing it more on mastery learning, not grades? We need integration with our rostering systems. Ideally, integration with our assessments. So the system will know, okay, student A is part of teacher B's classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2023

After unprecedented learning loss, growing disparities in educational outcomes and overall public dissatisfaction, the time is right for an education overhaul. Yet inflexibility is a hallmark of our current education system, apparent in our failure to meet the diverse learning needs of all our children.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Educators are fundamentally learners, as well as masters of assessing and adjusting learning opportunities. Unfortunately, most learning opportunities offered are static, prescriptive, or limited (and limiting)—not contextualized, personalized, or responsive. Micro-credentials offer educators that opportunity.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2021

The pandemic forced school systems across the world to move to virtual platforms for teaching and learning. Still, educators tend to be preconditioned to assign grades — not necessarily because we believe they best reflect our assessments of student learning and development but because our grading practices are what we are used to.

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Edsurge

MAY 22, 2017

Enter competency-based learning (CBE), a term introduced in the 1970s when the U.S. Since then, CBE has trickled down into the K-12 system, where enthusiasm and support have led to statewide policies supporting the development of such programs in regions like New England. Julia Freeland Fisher.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 20, 2020

Standards-based grading (SBG)—or competency-based grading—measures student progress relative to specific learning standards. This system of evaluation isolates the learning of content and mastery of skills from other factors, such as behavior.SBG takes on many different forms across the country.

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Turning Learning On Its Head

MARCH 13, 2016

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. Competencies include explicit, measurable, transferable learning objectives that empower students.

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Edsurge

APRIL 14, 2017

“We use data from learning management systems, student information systems, discussion forums, assessments and observation to build a model of the student,” Siemens says. This data gets compiled and assessed, and we’re able to identify groups of students who display certain attributes.”

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Edsurge

AUGUST 30, 2016

In particular, continuing education programs are less regulated, more responsive to industry and consumer needs, have less restrictive budget policies and procurement systems, operate under lower political pressure, and are often infused with the “startup mentality” that is critical for responding to and pioneering disruptive innovations.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2021

Last year, like many schools, Parker-Varney navigated months of remote learning, in which standardized tests were disrupted and absences soared. Teachers used those colorful pathways in a competency-based system to track what each student had learned — and hadn’t learned — in real time. And Daniel A.

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eSchool News

MARCH 4, 2024

Portrait of a graduate and rethinking assessment An increasing number of states have moved to create portraits of a graduate —what they believe students should know and be able to do upon graduation. They aren’t backed by assessments that verify a student has mastered the competencies underlying such portraits.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Terms such as “professional learning communities” and “data-based instruction” take the focus off of children as developing human beings, and force conversations to be about standardized data points from benchmark tests and high-stakes standardized assessments, which can dehumanize the way we address student needs.

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