Digital Promise

DECEMBER 4, 2014

When I landed in New Hampshire, I was eager to see competency-based education in action at the secondary level. Interestingly, what I saw were classrooms that on the surface looked quite traditional, with students working on the same lesson or exercise.

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Competency Based Learning Blended Learning Education Blackboard 186

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. Photo: James Leynse/Corbis via Getty Images. CAMBRIDGE, Mass.

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Competency Based Learning Training Secondary Report 95

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

A growing number of states and local communities are examining how to shift to student-centered, competency-based learning systems. Generation Teach : gives college and college-bound students summer teaching fellowships with the hope that they develop skills for success in the classroom and pursue teaching careers in Denver.

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System Competency Based Learning Education Assessment 60

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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Competency Based Learning Training System Report 39

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 31, 2018

Paid registration is required [link] About the Summit In a time of increased cultural diversity, global connectivity, and polarization of perspectives, how can leaders in classrooms, schools, districts, and education policy arenas support students with the competencies to thrive in college, careers, and as citizens in diverse communities?

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Advocacy Competency Based Learning Study Policies 49

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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Learning System Report Outcomes 85

Edsurge

JANUARY 29, 2018

In one day—in the same classroom—we can dissect an elephant, weld a beam, take apart a car, and dissect a human. EdSurge: How have AR and VR impacted students and learning in your district? In one day—in the same classroom—we can dissect an elephant, weld a beam, take apart a car, and dissect a human. Are engines her thing?

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Robotics Secondary Industry Case Study 163