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.
Edsurge
MAY 16, 2017
“[NG2] tackles long-standing educational barriers to personalized learning. Those barriers include “(1) student assessments that don't accurately reflect students’ true understandings and skills and (2) methods for grouping students (by age) that often poorly align to their true needs as learners.”.
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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. The reform model is known by several different names, including proficiency-based education. The state’s boomerang confirmed for many critics that proficiency-based education was a failure. MELROSE, Mass.
Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
From 2011 - 2015, 2Rev shifted their work to focus on assisting schools, districts and states with building future of learning models and helping those models succeed and scale. Since 2012, all of 2Rev’s offerings provide a blended experience, including face-to-face sessions as well as online learning opportunities.
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. Further, authentic learning has the potential to make students more engaged. ” Challenge 3: Fostering deeper learning. A total of 276 people participated in the survey.
Edsurge
JULY 16, 2019
He’s started working with more schools and districts—instead of reaching students mainly at home—and has partnered with assessment groups, such as the College Board and, most recently, the NWEA for personalized test prep materials. The latter group administers the MAP Assessment—a test designed to measure growth in reading and math.
Edsurge
OCTOBER 3, 2017
Early this decade there was perhaps no one person—not even Bergmann or Sams—more associated with flipping the classroom than Sal Khan, due in no small part to the more than 140 million views his Khan Academy videos had racked up by 2012. I said, ‘Look, here’s what I expect you to learn, and here’s everything you need to learn it.
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