This site uses cookies to improve your experience. To help us insure we adhere to various privacy regulations, please select your country/region of residence. If you do not select a country, we will assume you are from the United States. Select your Cookie Settings or view our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
Cookie Settings
Cookies and similar technologies are used on this website for proper function of the website, for tracking performance analytics and for marketing purposes. We and some of our third-party providers may use cookie data for various purposes. Please review the cookie settings below and choose your preference.
Used for the proper function of the website
Used for monitoring website traffic and interactions
Cookie Settings
Cookies and similar technologies are used on this website for proper function of the website, for tracking performance analytics and for marketing purposes. We and some of our third-party providers may use cookie data for various purposes. Please review the cookie settings below and choose your preference.
Strictly Necessary: Used for the proper function of the website
Performance/Analytics: Used for monitoring website traffic and interactions
Questions Answered on Today's Show What is competency-based (or mastery-based) learning? How does this look when a whole school implements it? Nicki Slaugh, principal of Quest Academy, explains the concept of competency-basedlearning and how it differs from traditional education models.
The tricky part is how to actually go about doing those things, and convincing everyone around you that they should be striving for that approach as well. How do you get that done? Let’s start with what personalized learning is — or should be — and go from there.
According to a 2016 report by iNACOL, 36 states are currently investigating policy surrounding competency-based education. And as interest in this approach to teaching and learning increases, so does the need for assessments to support it. Below are five ways to approach competency-basedlearning assessment.
As an educator and Executive Director at the Inclusive Higher Education Certificate Program ( IHECP ), I can honestly say that my students have experienced a smooth transition to the online learning environment. As schools and universities reopen their gates, there’s great hope that there will soon be more in-person learning.
But one question left unanswered is how does competency-based education seamlessly mix or align in an environment where students are completing personalized lessons using a learning management system (LMS)?
Mastery learning (also called competency-basedlearning) is being used in some classes and schools. Jon Bergmann, author of the Mastery Learning Handbook talks about how he uses mastery learning in his chemistry and physics classrooms. They've been learning about projectile motion.
Today’s most hyped phrase, personalized learning, is nearing Gartner’s peak of inflated expectations among the chattering class of education thought leaders and philanthropists. What is personalized learning? Slope of Enlightenment: Competency-BasedLearning. Competency-basedlearning is one of these.
It turns out young adolescents are extremely capable of engaging in self-paced, blendedlearning. Similar to the flipped classroom, the model is an approach based on blendedlearning, self-paced instruction, and mastery-based grading. In other words, how students are learning and how they can improve.
The result was the adoption of “a learner centered, personalized, competency-based” approach that allows students to meet learning goals on their own terms, Rooney said. Related: Why a high-performing district is changing everything with competency-basedlearning. Does it work?
Asynchronous Can Still Be Interactive If instructors get creative, they can build personalized interactions into asynchronous teaching, argues Michelle Eaton, director of virtual and blendedlearning for a school district in Indianapolis. Start with the skills for lifelong learning and learn those.”
How to integrate social emotional learning —plus a guide to SEL. How to implement blendedlearning —plus a guide to blendedlearning. Curriculum development for self-paced instruction. Three student-centered strategies. Edtech requires student buy-in too. Full size image here.
That’s why we’re working with these six districts: to follow along and share what they learn about piloting learning technology tools in classrooms. That’s also why we are crowdsourcing ideas from the many outstanding schools and districts across the country on how to run results-based ed-tech pilots.
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-basedlearning, on the other hand, insists on mastery of subjects and provides students the time to learn; the students are not marched past failure.
This entry is an attempt to compile a useful -- but by no means exhaustive -- list of CBE related books that I personally feel have been either extremely illuminating in pragmatic ways (detailed models, insightful anecdotes, clear "how to's") or it inspired me to stay the course. Often the same book did both! Stack and Jonathan G.
They have a Personalized Learning Implementation Framework that guides users through 25 key areas of personalized learning. It helps schools and districts assess their needs, recognize their strengths and how to work with those, and map out a plan. The framework is strong and has many success stories associated with it.
Discover The purpose of the discover phase of this project was to help leaders and educators from the Colorado Department of Education and the Colorado Education Initiative develop an understanding of competency-basedlearning. Colorado eventually adopted the InspirED platform, calling it Colorado ConnectEd.
A growing number of states and local communities are examining how to shift to student-centered, competency-basedlearning systems. The Every Student Succeeds Act begins to create room for states to use a more expansive set of learning providers and to report student success in a variety of ways.
This past week, we traveled to the Golden, Colorado to attend the Conference of Online and BlendedLearning (COBL), put on by the iLearn Collaborative. To address the issue, Hanover said educators from Roots will be attending a workshop this week on how to support students with trauma in a personalized learning approach.
A CompetencyWorks report, “Maximizing Competency Education and BlendedLearning: Insights from Experts,” looks at ways that the movement for personalization dovetails with blendedlearning and competency-basedlearning to achieve a more student-centered approach to school. ACCOUNTABILITY RULES.
Rethinking How Schools Work: Another trend educators have long talked about is the need to make learning more interdisciplinary, interactive and student-driven. Technology could be a productive part of this shift by changing where and how students engage with learning.
Related: Rhode Island’s lively experiment in blendedlearning. During these introductory sessions, by phone or web chat, Kent explains course logistics — for example, how she and the student will meet (virtually) at least once a month and how to upload weekly assignments. Read more about BlendedLearning.
We organize all of the trending information in your field so you don't have to. Join 34,000+ users and stay up to date on the latest articles your peers are reading.
You know about us, now we want to get to know you!
Let's personalize your content
Let's get even more personalized
We recognize your account from another site in our network, please click 'Send Email' below to continue with verifying your account and setting a password.
Let's personalize your content