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Competency Based Learning: How Flipped Mastery Makes CBL Possible

Turning Learning On Its Head

During the 2007-2008 school year, Aaron Sams and I pioneered the flipped class model of education. Though the flipped class model proved to be an effective strategy in which we saw increases in student achievement and engagement, we only did the traditional flipped classroom for one year. These five points resonate with me.

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14 Examples Of Innovation In Higher Education

TeachThought - Learn better.

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. Video Streaming/ Flipped Classroom/eLearning Trends. Six Common Examples Of Innovation In Higher Education. We shall see.

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Steps to Help Schools Transform to Competency-Based Learning

MindShift

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.

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Teacher shortages bring to mind the saying ‘necessity is the mother of invention’

eSchool News

As Mallory Dwinal wrote in 2015 when she explored the opportunity for innovating where there are teacher shortages, states could also help by allowing these experiences to move away from seat-time requirements to mastery- or competency-based learning and giving districts some resources to evaluate and select the appropriate learning models.

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What Public School Teachers Want: Less Disruption

Edsurge

Teachers shoulder the stress and try our best to ensure that true best practices are used in our classrooms, while at the same time we are often forced to sip the Kool-Aid of the highly-paid consultants du jour in lieu of designing our own professional development. Since the 2008 Time magazine cover story on Washington, D.C.

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New Colorado Innovation Program Will Unleash Innovation

ExcelinEd

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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Not Just Buzzwords: How Teachers Bring Big Ideas, Innovative Practices to Life

Edsurge

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. I could never tell whether I was in a classroom with struggling or accelerated students.