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. Assessments are competency-based and referenced to school learning criteria.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2021

The pandemic unleashed “tremendous interest” in revisiting assessments, said Jean-Claude Brizard, president and chief executive officer of Digital Promise, a nonprofit organization that promotes innovation in education. The vehicle that drives this is student engagement, not ‘Learn or I’ll hurt you,’ ” he added. And Daniel A.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 30, 2016

Competency-based education has become a hot trend in recent years, and it is no coincidence that one of the few direct assessment programs that the Department of Education has approved is at a continuing education school. The good news is that many continuing education programs are building on their legacies and stepping up.

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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. Open Curriculum.

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Edsurge

JULY 1, 2016

Competency-based learning has received widespread recognition as a way to better align higher education to careers. On a flight from Kuala Lumpur to New York in 2011 LeBlanc wrote “a little white paper” that set the stage for SNHU’s foray into direct-assessment programs. That’s a competency. earlier this month.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The result was the adoption of “a learner centered, personalized, competency-based” approach that allows students to meet learning goals on their own terms, Rooney said. Related: Why a high-performing district is changing everything with competency-based learning. Training the teachers. Does it work?

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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. Can you tell us about the online training course you teach for professors? To me, that's not what learning is about.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2022

For decades, advocates of competency-based education have been arguing that colleges should award credits based on assessing what students know rather than how many hours they’ve spent in class. Illinois, meanwhile, is setting up a statewide CBE effort to train early-childhood educators. AMELIA ISLAND, FLA. —

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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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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Our collective goal was to begin to rethink quality assurance in an educational system with an array of learning providers. Framework for the Future of Learning. Our current approach of summative assessments has few fans. It is burdensome and takes big chunks of time away from learning. Source: ReSchool).

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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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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.”. In addition, Gooru offers a wiki-assessment system with millions of questions teachers can use to assess student learning.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 2, 2015

It was during a panel discussion on Competency Based Learning, where he explained the research for the prioritized competencies began with “federal skills databases.” Competency-based education makes it simpler to prioritize specific content. ” This sounds innocent enough. Even efficient.

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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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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

When school leadership made this announcement in August during our staff training, I immediately felt overwhelmed and confused. competency-based (a.k.a. standards-based) school for at-risk youth, pre-packaged curriculum and assessments offered very little flexibility for personalization or modification.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Ten years ago two Colorado chemistry teachers unleashed a brash concept on a K-12 landscape where few questioned the age-old formula of lecture, homework, assess, repeat. Through examinations of classroom surveys such as Project Tomorrow’s Speak Up , the Flipped Learning Global Initiative estimates that around 16 percent of U.S.

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MindShift

JANUARY 18, 2018

So he’s joined a pioneering program based at MIT to take people like him, with experience in high-demand fields such as engineering, physics, math, languages, biology and neuroscience, and transform them into teachers. And by putting other talents first, it’s also a closely watched reversal of the conventional approach to training them. “We

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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. The rubrics and learning targets are now fixtures in each Montpelier classroom. Related: Documenting Maine’s failure to implement proficiency-based education.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

They get frequent updates on which skills they’ve learned and which ones they need to acquire. Mastery-based learning, also known as proficiency-based or competency-based learning, is taking hold across the country. Ten school districts in Illinois, including Chicago, are piloting the approach.

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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. Students also have the ability to work at their own pace.

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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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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. Brain Training. Wedge Tailed Green Pigeon.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

Rando noticed when his daughter, Olivia, a middle school student and a black belt in karate, enrolled in VLACS to accommodate training and competition. During the interview, Bramante sat beside her laptop, awaiting an upcoming “discussion-based assessment” with one of her students. They’re proactive about it.

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