EdNews Daily

MAY 29, 2017

We can be hopeful that the connection between teacher training and student learning seems to be realized and now what’s needed is to find the right formula for improving this crucial component of school culture. Professional Learning (skills, knowledge, theory). Organizational Mandates (required trainings).

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 21, 2018

Maria Montessori created a curriculum for individualized, competency-based learning a century before any of these terms became buzzwords. Please respect the essence of the Montessori classroom. And, of course, please buy the classrooms science kits! I think I get it. It is used to asses and inform instruction.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

. — On a morning this fall at Washington Elementary, a young boy, sitting at a table with five of his peers, held a tablet while he built a digital snowman — a cool proposition given the 85-degree heat just outside his air-conditioned classroom. Teachers rarely stand at the front of the classroom. Training the teachers.

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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. And just as universities haven’t been ‘job training facilities,’ more immediately, neither has K-12. We shall see.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 22, 2019

Because learning is student-driven rather than teacher-driven, learner-paced rather than unit-paced, technology is critical to the rollout of this approach. That means not only digital devices but infrastructure and teacher training. When I read this article about it, I got pretty excited. What is MBL. What does it look like?

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 26, 2015

For the 2014-15 school year, Piedmont Middle School, in rural northeast Alabama, reimagined how its students learn by letting them progress based on their mastery of skills and standards. Despite a full year of planning and training, teachers didn’t feel comfortable giving up so much control to students.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2021

State leaders from Utah to Michigan to North Carolina are getting more involved in figuring out how to support the expansion of personalized, competency-based learning, she said, although it’s too early to decipher how much of the stimulus money flowing to school districts will go toward these efforts. The response?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2018

The “Great Dome” on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which is hosting an experimental program to recruit physicists, engineers, chemists, linguists, biologists, neuroscientists and other experts and train them to be primary and secondary school teachers. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter.

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Tom Murray

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

I’ve been able to see firsthand how school leaders are implementing exciting innovations that are accelerating high quality teaching and learning—things such as Open Education Resources (OER) , repurposing their spaces , completely overhauling how they assess a child’s growth by shifting to a competency-based learning model , among other things.

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Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2017

No one wants to feel like a cog in the wheel, especially not when it comes to something as personal as learning. EdSurge: I wanted to talk about your Humanizing Online Learning training course. Pacansky-Brock: With learning, we focus so much on [the content they learned]. That's part of learning too.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2017

It became know as the flipped classroom—a modern, video-based version of a model pioneered by a handful of higher ed professors during the 1990s. But notably, a cohesive opposition movement has failed to materialize, in part because research on its impact in the classroom has generally been positive (or at least neutral ).

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 1, 2016

Student learner pathways are customized based on students’ strengths, weaknesses and goals; and learning experiences vary. Competency based learning allows students to increase ownership and responsibility in their learning and choice in their pacing. They collaborate on white boards around the classroom.

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2017

Cederick Ellis and Summit Elementary School principal Lakya Taylor-Washington, the bigger asset in going personalized comes down to removing arbitrary grade level assignments and creating “learning labs,” a style of competency-based learning that Summit has been experimenting with since 2015.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

A growing number of states and local communities are examining how to shift to student-centered, competency-based learning systems. Generation Teach : gives college and college-bound students summer teaching fellowships with the hope that they develop skills for success in the classroom and pursue teaching careers in Denver.

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eSchool News

JUNE 8, 2015

Gooru’s enhanced, free K-12 content will support a variety of innovative educational models and facilitate the growth of competency-based learning.”. Teachers and students using Gooru can now adapt these high-quality resources for their classrooms. Material from a press release was used in this report.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Across the country, schools are adopting new approaches to teaching and learning in order to prepare students for life in a technology-rich world. She explains, “We have a diverse group of learners, and this allows everyone on the team to collaborate and learn from one another.” Why is this important?

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MindShift

JANUARY 18, 2018

And by putting other talents first, it’s also a closely watched reversal of the conventional approach to training them. “We In addition to the familiar student teaching routine, for instance, it uses virtual reality avatars to simulate classroom situations and crises. Army War College. There is a lot of pressure on this program.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2016

And it lacks the enthusiasm—as well as the desire to help kids own and engage in their learning—that defines us as innovative educators. With transformative digital changes happening in classrooms today, basic learning management systems now deliver the answers to most of those well worn questions on parent portals.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 16, 2019

The learning model Dr. Martin presented is known as Competency-Based Learning, and one key aspect is that learners “articulate” their own progress toward competencies. This started with the campus leaders and included book studies and regional trainings with campus teams. Kimberly Hatten, Ed.D.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 31, 2018

Paid registration is required [link] About the Summit In a time of increased cultural diversity, global connectivity, and polarization of perspectives, how can leaders in classrooms, schools, districts, and education policy arenas support students with the competencies to thrive in college, careers, and as citizens in diverse communities?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

When school leadership made this announcement in August during our staff training, I immediately felt overwhelmed and confused. Beginning that very first year in my Algebra classroom, I've strived to make it easier for educators to design their own curriculum. You’ve got time to plan ahead.”

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

Schools used their professional development budgets, and were able to use federal money, for teacher training to support work toward the switch. Graduation from Montpelier no longer depends on hours logged in a classroom; instead students now need to check off a certain number of proficiency-based credits in subjects like English and math.

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MindShift

MARCH 25, 2015

A CompetencyWorks report, “Maximizing Competency Education and Blended Learning: Insights from Experts,” looks at ways that the movement for personalization dovetails with blended learning and competency-based learning to achieve a more student-centered approach to school. LEADERSHIP. ACCOUNTABILITY RULES.

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Redesigning Learning Spaces: Panelists identified changing learning spaces as a trend that educators and district leaders have embraced for quite some time and which is likely to continue. Technology could be a productive part of this shift by changing where and how students engage with learning.

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 2, 2018

The organisation’s other major contribution is the development of the ISTE standards, a framework that enables educators to continue striving for innovation and technological enhancements in their classrooms. Main themes that can be found in their work include personalized and competency based learning, blended and online learning.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 29, 2018

In one day—in the same classroom—we can dissect an elephant, weld a beam, take apart a car, and dissect a human. EdSurge: How have AR and VR impacted students and learning in your district? In one day—in the same classroom—we can dissect an elephant, weld a beam, take apart a car, and dissect a human. Are engines her thing?

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 26, 2017

We talked at NNSTOY about training that inspires and helps teachers change. FlexPath – only at Capella University – lets teachers work at their own pace to earn their MEd in a competency-based learning format. Dyane: So, my passion really is to see how we can create professional learning that engages teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

Moheeb is part of a new program that is challenging the way teachers and students think about academics, and his school is one of hundreds that have done away with traditional letter grades inside their classrooms. The strategy looks different in every classroom, as does the material that students must master. The students at M.S.

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Turning Learning On Its Head

APRIL 3, 2016

Lately I have been thinking about how flipped learning, mastery learning, and competency based learning (CBL) intersect. I believe that implementing a Flipped Mastery approach is a practical way to personalize learning for each kid. Ara was reading a book about learning and we struck up a conversation.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Paid registration is required [link] About the Summit In a time of increased cultural diversity, global connectivity, and polarization of perspectives, how can leaders in classrooms, schools, districts, and education policy arenas support students with the competencies to thrive in college, careers, and as citizens in diverse communities?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

The only students here now are in photos, like the one of a VLACS graduation ceremony that hangs in a classroom turned conference room. Rando noticed when his daughter, Olivia, a middle school student and a black belt in karate, enrolled in VLACS to accommodate training and competition. They’re proactive about it.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 12, 2018

There’s more on the GED, that very old competency-based learning exam, in the research section below. The Business of Job Training. Good thing no school would be stupid enough to put one of these devices in a classroom or dorm. Go, School Sports Team! ” Contests and Conferences.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Perhaps the district didn’t know what New York City learned when it audited its old data portal : it found that less than 3% of parents had ever logged in. There are a variety of reasons for this: language barriers, lack of Internet access, incompatible devices, lack of training. The Flipped Classroom". WTF is Unizin ?!

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