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

Edsurge

Principal Chris Huckans believes that competency-based education (CBE) is one of the keys to the school’s success. Huckans says that Bishop Hall’s use of the Brightspace learning management system provides students with highly personalized learning pathways, which “allow them to innovate and experiment.”

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What If We Measured Learning Through Skills Gained, Not Time Spent in the Classroom?

Edsurge

For more than 100 years, high schools and colleges have relied on the same stalwart tool to measure teaching and learning: the clock. That’s because earning credit toward a diploma or degree typically requires students to spend a minimum number of hours receiving instruction in the classroom. Embracing Flexibility?

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Competency Based Learning: How Flipped Mastery Makes CBL Possible

Turning Learning On Its Head

Though the flipped class model proved to be an effective strategy in which we saw increases in student achievement and engagement, we only did the traditional flipped classroom for one year. In 2011, a group of educators met at the Competency Based Learning Summit. These five points resonate with me. And you know what?

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How to do online learning well? A California district has some answers.

The Hechinger Report

On a morning this fall at Washington Elementary, a young boy, sitting at a table with five of his peers, held a tablet while he built a digital snowman — a cool proposition given the 85-degree heat just outside his air-conditioned classroom. Teachers rarely stand at the front of the classroom. LINDSAY, Calif. —

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Why Middle Schoolers Thrive in a Self-Paced Classroom

Edsurge

Last summer, we, along with other members of the sixth grade teaching staff at our school, adopted the Modern Classrooms model. Similar to the flipped classroom, the model is an approach based on blended learning, self-paced instruction, and mastery-based grading. Capitalize on peer obsessions in a positive way.

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Are Your Students as Far Behind as Mine?

EdTechTeacher

Some are encouraging students to take summer school while others are working on systems where there is ongoing tutoring. In 2007 I helped pioneer the flipped classroom model and that model laid the groundwork for what I am doing now in my classroom. And it is not terribly difficult to implement in the average teachers classroom.

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Are Your Students as Far Behind as Mine?

Turning Learning On Its Head

Some are encouraging students to take summer school, while others are working on systems where there is ongoing tutoring. In 2007 I helped pioneer the flipped classroom model and that model laid the groundwork for what I am doing now in my classroom. Below are a few statements from students in mastery learning classrooms.

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