A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

We live in exciting times as unprecedented access to knowledge, research, and effective strategies at our fingertips can assist educators in creating meaningful experiences for students that align with both needs and strengths. One thing is for certain: learning is not linear. There is not one best or right way to personalize.

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Neo LMS

JUNE 28, 2022

It helps them find a balance between frontal lessons and individual study, interaction and reflection, formal evaluation and self-assessment. . Today’s educational technology makes it easier to support student autonomy in the classroom and beyond it. They don’t only help educators teach and assess students.

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

, which Dweck associates with a false growth mindset, won’t help them achieve their learning goals, at least not in the long run. Educators need to be consistent with the messages they send and incorporate a growth mindset in what they do, including technology — or especially in the way they use technology to teach.

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Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Students with special educational needs and/or disabilities are often overlooked in the grand scheme of education. 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.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

As personalized learning continues to gain momentum across the U.S., more states, districts and schools are moving toward a competency-based education system that focuses on individualized learning and classroom equity. Students advance upon demonstrated mastery, not based on time.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2023

Education policy should be top of mind as state policymakers continue their legislative work this spring. After unprecedented learning loss, growing disparities in educational outcomes and overall public dissatisfaction, the time is right for an education overhaul. We should ask no less of ourselves.

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Turning Learning On Its Head

MARCH 13, 2016

During the 2007-2008 school year, Aaron Sams and I pioneered the flipped class model of education. 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.

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Neo LMS

MAY 18, 2021

Innovation in education is a must if we want to keep up with technology and global advancements. There has to be a paradigm shift in our approach to education. Teaching needs to be student-centered, but most of all, it should be based on the graduate profile. Read more: The PROs and CONs of competency-based learning.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 23, 2017

Thus, many educators, including myself, now refer to these as essential skills. Over time they have evolved beyond just communication, collaboration, creativity, and global awareness to include entrepreneurship and emerging technological proficiency. Success in a digital world will rely on much more than skills.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Mastery learning (also called competency-based learning) 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. Dell Black Friday and Year Long Education Deals.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 12, 2020

14 Examples Of Innovation In Higher Education. I don’t follow higher education very closely, so this is all from 20 feet away. Six Common Examples Of Innovation In Higher Education. Competency-Based Learning. by Terry Heick. That’s good.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2017

The term “grades” has become almost taboo among some educators in New Hampshire, where seven elementary schools are slowly ditching the word altogether through a program known as. The program—short for “no grades, no grades”—is hallmarked by the schools shifting to a more competency-based assessment structure and removal of grade levels.

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Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2023

Now, the institution that developed the time-based standard more than a century ago that is used throughout education is calling for the creation of a different way to quantify academic progress. Like the reality that it takes different students different amounts of time to acquire 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. In fact, in so many ways, it brings common sense back to education.

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Edsurge

MAY 31, 2017

Consider the implications this has for the nature of education in childhood. Children will need to master skills and competencies relevant to this emerging world of work. We often think about competency-based learning as an input—a method of instruction that is mastery based and not time-based.

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 8, 2019

What schools used to teach students, the skills needed in the past and their applicability in real life are no longer suitable in a scientifically and technologically developing world. 9 Characteristics of authentic learning. With authentic learning there is no predetermined outcome. Well, that’s not enough anymore!

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Digital Promise

APRIL 8, 2016

Enter micro-credentials : competency-based recognition for educator learning that is supported by digital badges. Four recent developments have set the stage for micro-credentials: #1 – Competency-based learning for students. 3 – Research base for a new approach to professional learning.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Brent Maddin is the Provost at the Relay Graduate School of Education, Director of TeacherSquared, and a member of the Digital Promise Micro-credential Advisory Board. Micro-credentials, which provide recognition for these concrete competencies in the form of digital badges, could help facilitate this shift.

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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? Ideally, integration with our assessments. For those who may not know that concept, what is your elevator pitch for mastery learning? How is that part going? We need training.

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Neo LMS

JUNE 21, 2022

Academic achievement is the final goal of a student’s educational journey. However, to reach optimal results, students need several skills such as critical thinking, planning, self-monitoring, and problem-solving that they develop throughout their educational process. Working memory. – Cathi Allen”.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Brent Maddin is the Provost at the Relay Graduate School of Education, Director of TeacherSquared, and a member of the Digital Promise Micro-credential Advisory Board. Micro-credentials, which provide recognition for these concrete competencies in the form of digital badges, could help facilitate this shift.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 25, 2018

A 2018 study conducted by the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) highlights schools in 9 states that have already started to implement interoperable systems with promising results. Expand Educational Resources to Student Toolkits. Transfer Student Data Seamlessly Across Academic Careers.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 30, 2016

As more adults than ever before enroll in postsecondary education programs and a variety of players—from bootcamps to online and mobile course providers—offer options tailored to match adults’ work and family circumstance, traditional colleges and universities have struggled to keep pace.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 20, 2020

Of course, a grading overhaul like this requires a huge shift in a school’s approach to teaching and assessment. In any configuration, the setup and preparation take time, but educators report that the effort is worthwhile. Waterford uses Edulastic to create standards-tied assessments and track student progress.

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EdTechTeacher

APRIL 20, 2019

This practice is often coupled with the overarching philosophy of mastery learning, sometimes referred to as competency-based education. One of the most effective ways to personalize the path and pace of student learning is to build a strong foundation of competency based learning in your classroom or institution.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2021

As educators reflect on the disruptions of the past two academic years, they’re increasingly gravitating toward the kind of personalized, “move on when you’re ready” learning being practiced at Parker-Varney. Related: Vermont’s ‘all over the map’ effort to switch schools to proficiency-based learning. And Daniel A.

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Edsurge

MAY 2, 2018

Educators shifting to competency-based models often tout to the power of allowing students to master a topic by taking a test again and again until they do well, rather than failing them if they bomb the first time. The philosophy is that such repeated testing will make sure they get to a level where the material truly sinks in.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

In the summer of 2016, a community of educators, research design partners, and over 150 teens and young adults in Colorado engaged in a bold experiment to rethink how quality and impact might be measured in a modernized system of learning. In this relatively small, short-cycle prototype, the lessons we learned were significant.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The model also helped students and educators weather the pandemic’s ups and downs more easily than other districts in the country. While the pandemic still took its toll, adapting to online learning was smoother in Lindsay due to its preexisting infrastructure and history of adaptation. What is competency-based education?

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Edsurge

JULY 13, 2016

But what has been left unsaid is how our current system of education works systematically against instilling these skills in students, and how we could naturally embed the development of grit in students—in a way that doesn’t talk explicitly about grit—by moving to a competency-based learning system.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

It’s a novel idea to consider what teachers want in this time of disruption and corporate education reform, which have by most measures failed our public schools. The list I have compiled below is a must read for school boards, parents, grandparents and anyone who cares about having a well-educated society.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

The Los Angeles Unified School District is back in the news for its use of technology, this time for its online credit-recovery courses. With rigorous, competency-based learning, effort is all but guaranteed since students must keep working until they truly master material.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2016

One of the challenges in trying out new learning strategies, including those that embrace technology, is that schools have a tough time finding out which new methods work best – which ones actually help kids learn. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter. They work together to solve problems.

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2018

In recent years, technology has played a significant role in reshaping the landscape of college teaching, and it will surely continue to do so. In this context, educators must be especially mindful that our uses of technology do not undermine meaningful learning.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

In my role as the Chief Culture Officer at Valor Collegiate Academy , I’ve been wrestling lately with how to quantify, develop, and measure competencies like vulnerability in children (and adults) so that experiences like Jamal’s can become the rule rather than the exception. can quantify elation? what kind of equation.

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Edsurge

APRIL 14, 2017

There’s an old joke that the original form of distance education is sitting in the back of a large lecture course. Education technology researcher George Siemens and a colleague hope that personalized learning approaches can help better connect professors and students in large classes.

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Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2020

Thirty-eight percent of first-time students transfer schools within their first six years, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. In an education world driven more by inputs than learning outcomes, it’s hard to prove the case one way or the other. But as they move, their credits don’t always follow.

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