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Competency-Based Learning Puts Students at the Center. It’s Perfect for Now.

Edsurge

One solution my district is beginning to explore is a competency-based learning system, and I am on a team of teachers and administrators working for the change. For various reasons, school districts have been slow to shift from the traditional seat-time systems of education to a more modern model that heralds personal learning.

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New to Competency-Based Learning? Here're Five Ways to Assess It

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He adds, “Kids are allowed to learn at their own pace, and can learn experientially.” When a competency-based approach to assessment is in place, students must show what they know as well as what they can do. Below are five ways to approach competency-based learning assessment.

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Unlocking the Spectrum of Learning: The Multi-Faceted Magic of Personalization

A Principal's Reflections

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. Case in point. The rest is now history.

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How does an intelligent learning platform help teachers create a truly personalized learning environment?

Neo LMS

If you’re looking for a definition of personalized learning in the Glossary of Educational Reform, you’ll learn that: Personalized learning means addressing the distinct learning needs of each student with the help of different instructional approaches, educational programs, and learning strategies and experiences. .

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Your Ticket to More Effective Lessons

A Principal's Reflections

Her Instructional Theory into Practice (ITIP) model helped me identify the strategies I would use on a daily basis to help my students learn. These included the anticipatory set (hook), reviewing prior learning, checking for understanding, forms of practice, and closure. Herein lies the main disadvantage of ITIP.

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4 Digital learning trends for Higher Education

Neo LMS

So let’s explore a few online learning trends that I think are currently shaping how colleges and universities will prepare students for the future. Competency-based learning. Students have unique learning needs, and they also have different background knowledge. Change is inevitable. Digital credentials.

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8 LMS features that support student autonomy in the classroom and beyond

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It helps them find a balance between frontal lessons and individual study, interaction and reflection, formal evaluation and self-assessment. . One of the most popular tools that achieve this goal is the learning management system (LMS). Here are a few common strategies that support student autonomy. . Flipped classes.

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