A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 5, 2023

Whether you lead a district, organization, school, or classroom, you should always strive to get better. During the spring of 2022, I met Nicki Slaugh , who serves as principal, and many of her staff at a school system where we were all there to facilitate professional learning on Personalized Competency-Based Learning (PCBL).

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Turning Learning On Its Head

MARCH 13, 2016

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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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

It’s that a student who earns 60 percent on a test—whether online or in a physical classroom—has not demonstrated that he or she has mastered the course material. The newspaper cites the NCAA requirement that credit-recovery courses be comparable in “length, content and rigor” to those taught in classrooms.

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Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2023

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.

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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. Jon Bergmann is one of the pioneers of the Flipped Classroom.

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Neo LMS

MAY 18, 2021

Also referred to as competency-based , student-centered , proficiency-based , or performance-based learning , mastery-based learning (MBL) has similar features and principles with all these approaches. The 6 principles of mastery-based learning. in your classroom.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 25, 2018

What has changed, however, is the need and increased capacity to personalize learning, including: A workforce that demands significantly more than mastery of the 3 Rs; 2. Growth in learner variability and complexity in classrooms nationwide; 3. Click here to read our new report.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

In classrooms, educators continue to grapple with the impacts this is having on both remote and hybrid learning models. They include a dynamic combination of abilities, attitudes, behaviors, and knowledge that is fundamental to the use of a skill aligned to a learning outcome.

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Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

One of the benefits of using an LMS for online teaching is that it makes teachers’ lives easier when it comes to tracking student progress and learning outcomes. If you’re using an LMS, you may already have tapped into its competency-based learning features. NEO Guide: Competency-based learning.

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Edsurge

MAY 31, 2017

Specifically, they will need to understand how to reflect on their learning choices, which in turn inform their passions, which in turn trigger motivation, desire, and effort. 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

In most schools across the globe, students leave their classrooms only with the tools teachers provide them, and with the knowledge and skills they acquire throughout their development. Read more: Practical applications of Constructivism in the online classroom. 9 Characteristics of authentic learning. Open-ended inquiry.

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MindShift

JULY 9, 2015

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.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2022

As challenging as the last two years have been, academically and on the mental health of teachers and students , some schools have worked collectively, distributing devices, developing new health and safety protocols and shifting to virtual classrooms. They also allow learners to master new skills at their own pace, in their own way.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Teachers shoulder the stress and try our best to ensure that true best practices are used in our classrooms, while at the same time we are often forced to sip the Kool-Aid of the highly-paid consultants du jour in lieu of designing our own professional development. You may be surprised by this list if you aren’t a classroom teacher.

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EdNews Daily

MAY 29, 2017

The delivery method including video platforms, in-services, self-determined learning, and PD Communities require ongoing validation to ensure a greater return on investment (ROI). Professional Learning (skills, knowledge, theory). Professional Learning is moving toward a competency based approach.

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eSchool News

MARCH 24, 2020

Across classrooms and campuses, teaching and learning may be the core activity observable to the naked eye. Given the myriad ways in which networks shape access to opportunity, the connections students forge in the course of learning experiences are assets we should be paying attention to. Competency-based learning.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

. — 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.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Sarah never smiled in my classroom. We can begin with the shared high expectation that all students in our classroom have the ability to achieve mastery of foundational mathematical skills and habits of mind. We can make mastery the outcome of learning and not a given amount of time in a classroom.

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Edsurge

MAY 2, 2018

Implications For Educators Lai says that she is not sure whether this finding is a result of a flawed product design or if the way the app was used in in the classroom was ineffective. For example, they may want to encourage their students to do more practice questions before taking QuizMe for learning objectives.”

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ExcelinEd

JANUARY 22, 2020

Professional development has the potential to help millions of hardworking teachers cultivate their instructional practice to improve student outcomes. Yet in many districts, this resource fails to produce positive changes in the classroom, despite substantial investments of money and time.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 10, 2015

That’s why we’re working with these six districts: to follow along and share what they learn about piloting learning technology tools in classrooms. That’s also why we are crowdsourcing ideas from the many outstanding schools and districts across the country on how to run results-based ed-tech pilots.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2019

To date, educators in 61 of the state’s 81 districts have benefitted from the state-led convenings, returning to their districts with practices they can begin using in the classroom and sharing with their peers right away. We’re really grateful to be one of the key investors and partners in the work that’s happening in South Carolina.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2017

Higher education innovation” is no different, though instead of flying cars and Mars colonies, what likely comes to mind first are online and competency-based learning platforms, learning management systems, or electronic whiteboards. But we can’t forget that programs and people are just as important as the tech.

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 6, 2019

The new-school answer to the definition of personalized learning is markedly different. Its biggest divergence has to do with physical structure of where learners and teachers are spending the most time, and the disaggregation of the classroom and modification of the grade groupings. Auto-Cohorting.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2018

In addition to the familiar student teaching routine, for instance, it uses virtual reality avatars to simulate classroom situations and crises. “We This gives them experience with a process, known as competency-based learning, that a growing number of primary and secondary schools where they’ll eventually teach are beginning to adopt.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

A growing number of states and local communities are examining how to shift to student-centered, competency-based learning systems. Denver Public Library Dev Camp : a week-long summer camp where young adults learn the basics of web development, including HTML and CSS, as well as an introduction to JavaScript. .

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2017

Groups are based on skill level, so a student might be working with older peers in math but younger students in English and language arts. They move around to different groups or classrooms throughout the day and follow lessons specifically tailored to their skills and competencies, rather than their ages.

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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. Kimberly Hatten, Ed.D. discussed how the approach had worked successfully in the Futures Academy network of schools.

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MindShift

JANUARY 18, 2018

In addition to the familiar student teaching routine, for instance, it uses virtual reality avatars to simulate classroom situations and crises. This gives them experience with a process, known as competency-based learning, that a growing number of primary and secondary schools where they’ll eventually teach are beginning to adopt.

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Plus, their basic needs are met – perhaps, someone else is responsible for household duties – so they have less distractions from learning and can better practice self-regulation skills. He jokingly sums up the learning outcomes of MOOCs with a simplified observation he calls Reich’s Law: .

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

At Montpelier High School, in Vermont’s capital city, teachers spent years defining the school’s “proficiencies” and rewriting their lesson plans to highlight those core objectives in the lead-up to the transition in 2016, when all grades and classes switched to a proficiency-based model at once. Michael Dougherty for The Hechinger Report.

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

The state of New Hampshire has been gradually shifting toward competency-based education (CBE) for two decades. The changes first impacted high schools, and in the past three years, the model has made its way into K-12 classrooms. The group settled on four practices: communication, creativity, collaboration and self-direction.

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

They flipped their classrooms. Instead of going to class to listen to the teacher’s lecture and then home to do their homework, students in a flipped classroom listen, watch or read by themselves — before they go to school. Flipped learning and Higher Education students. Read more: What is competency-based learning?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2019

Like many school districts at the time, Juab (pronounced Joo-ab) passed out the devices to all its students before really stopping to think about what personalized learning could – or should – mean. At the heart of personalized learning is building a positive relationship with every student, every single day.”.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2016

Regardless of what subject is taught, teachers can create a pathway-independent rubric regarding the standards students should meet, and the students can decide how they will show the accomplishment of the standards—similar to a competency-based learning model. Live Presentation/Demonstration. Radio Show/News Report.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

Moheeb is part of a new program that is challenging the way teachers and students think about academics, and his school is one of hundreds that have done away with traditional letter grades inside their classrooms. The strategy looks different in every classroom, as does the material that students must master. The students at M.S.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

The only students here now are in photos, like the one of a VLACS graduation ceremony that hangs in a classroom turned conference room. And it isn’t looking good in terms of outcomes,” she said. That’s the norm right now. Finally, tutoring is available through four “skills coaches.”. Related: School choice on steroids.

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