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

Edsurge

According to a 2016 report by iNACOL, 36 states are currently investigating policy surrounding competency-based education. And as interest in this approach to teaching and learning increases, so does the need for assessments to support it. Below are five ways to approach competency-based learning assessment.

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#inacol15 Session 1 – Personalizing PD: Creating a Competency-based Learning System for Teachers @LearningAccel

techieMusings

Some major resources shared: iNACOL Blended Learning Teacher Competency Framework. Making Competency-Based Learning Real for Educators. Full session notes storified here…

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K–12 Departments Work Collaboratively to Support New Pedagogies

EdTech Magazine

Indeed, the concept has been conflated with other educational and ­instructional approaches that integrate technology : adaptive learning, blended ­learning , ­competency-based learning and differentiated learning, to name just a few. K–12 Departments Must Find Common Ground. by David Hutchins.

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7 must-knows from blended learning’s early adopters

eSchool News

Earlier this year, the Highlander Institute, The Learning Accelerator and The Christensen Institute teamed up to bring together a conference on blended and personalized learning in Providence, R.I. 2 Go Slow to Go Fast When Implementing Competency-Based Models. 3 Make Students Agents of Their Learning.

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What is Mastery Learning and How Do You Implement It Effectively?

The CoolCatTeacher

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. Resources Mentioned in This Podcast. Stream by clicking here.

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

eSchool News

Instead, schools ought to be taking these opportunities to do what Heather Staker and I described in Blended —offering a la carte online courses with great digital curriculum mixed with elements of the Flex or Individual Rotation models of blended learning that match the path and pace of each individual’s students’ learning needs.

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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.