Neo LMS

JULY 15, 2021

So let’s explore a few online learning trends that I think are currently shaping how colleges and universities will prepare students for the future. Competency-based learning. Students have unique learning needs, and they also have different background knowledge. Digital credentials. Final thoughts.

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Edsurge

MAY 22, 2017

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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Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

One thing that I’ve been thrilled about is that technology and online learning have really supported these students to continue their education, even though the pandemic disrupted many systems and processes. In the typical classroom environment, this is an enormous and often insurmountable challenge. Competency-based learning.

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Neo LMS

MAY 10, 2022

Other gaps are harder to cope with, especially if they affect many students or the entire classroom. There are different types of learning gaps, but usually, they all fall into one of these five categories: Knowledge gaps stem from a lack of correct and sufficient knowledge; they can be caused by poorly planned teaching activities.

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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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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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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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Digital Promise

MARCH 6, 2023

At the height of COVID-19, many schools weren’t able to undertake the full process of selecting and implementing a learning management system (LMS), even if they knew that this step would be foundational to achieving their vision for student learning. The COVID-19 pandemic offers an apt example of this mentality.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 25, 2018

Growth in learner variability and complexity in classrooms nationwide; 3. The burgeoning field of learning sciences research that addresses learner variability 4 ; and. The rapid development of more sophisticated and available technology that teachers can use as tools to help meet various learning needs.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2015

In a typical Georgia school, kids like Sean Prisk would have to abide by a kind of classroom speed limit, forced to learn at the same pace as others his age. Sean entered Locust Grove Middle School as it was implementing “competency-based” learning, which tailors schooling to each child’s ability.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 1, 2021

But what about CEO and founder Sal Khan’s broader goal of changing the education system, by basing it more on mastery learning, not grades? We need integration with our rostering systems. So the system will know, okay, student A is part of teacher B's classroom. How is that part going? We need training.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Aligning their efforts with the New York State Computer Science and Digital Fluency Standards and the Profile of a North Salem Graduate , the district has developed a Computational Thinking Pathway, which provides CT and CS learning opportunities for all students.

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Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2020

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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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. LAYING THE GROUNDWORK.

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Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

If you’re using an LMS, you may already have tapped into its competency-based learning features. This is a great way to measure students’ learning outcomes and how they’re mastering new subjects and notions. NEO Guide: Competency-based learning. Read more: Teacher tricks: Grading & assessment.

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EdTechTeacher

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

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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EdTechTeacher

APRIL 20, 2019

This practice is often coupled with the overarching philosophy of mastery learning, sometimes referred to as competency-based education. One of the most effective ways to personalize the path and pace of student learning is to build a strong foundation of competency based learning in your classroom or institution.

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Neo LMS

JUNE 21, 2022

That’s why the education system needs to understand that children are not born with these skills. In this article, we’ll discuss executive functioning skills and their importance as well as ways to teach them with the help of your learning management system (LMS). What are the most important executive functioning skills?

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Turning Learning On Its Head

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

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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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. We can also move beyond outdated student records and transcripts.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

In the summer of 2016, a community of educators, research design partners, and over 150 teens and young adults in Colorado engaged in a bold experiment to rethink how quality and impact might be measured in a modernized system of learning. In this relatively small, short-cycle prototype, the lessons we learned were significant.

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 9, 2022

If you teach using a learning management system (LMS) you most likely add all your classes to the platform. Read more: Positive student-teacher relationships: 8 Ways to build stronger connections in the classroom. Competency-based learning helps you track student progress and identify learning gaps.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 4, 2014

I wanted to see teachers guiding their students through individualized learning, units that are unique and cater to the multiple learning styles, and technology-rich classrooms that aided in the whole competency-based approach to 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. You can learn anywhere,” León said.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Unfortunately, most learning opportunities offered are static, prescriptive, or limited (and limiting)—not contextualized, personalized, or responsive. This is among our goals at the Carey Institute for Global Good’s Center for Learning in Practice and is chief among my tasks as the program manager for our Refugee Educator Academy.

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Edsurge

JULY 13, 2016

In Paul Tough’s new book, he writes that the people who are best at engendering “noncognitive”—or character—abilities like grit in students hardly ever mention these skills in the classroom. In today’s system, time is held as a constant and each student’s learning is variable.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2020

This impedes kids from understanding how systems work, how things fit together, how people of different ages interact and how ideas are generated and disseminated. But are those skills and subject-segregated methods still the ones our students need to make sense of interdependent global systems and phenomena that evolve at lightning speed?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2017

Rather than focus on “personalized learning” as a specific thing, the framework it has developed is designed to measure the degree of personalization in the classroom along four dimensions: learner connected, learner focused, learner demonstrated, and learner led. Slope of Enlightenment: Competency-Based Learning.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Sarah never smiled in my classroom. As Sanjay Sarma points out in his book “ Grasp ,” the American education system has long been about “winnowing” down masses of people to those who are deemed deserving of educational investment and those who are not. The current system forces everyone into the same timetable to reach proficiency.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2021

Last year, like many schools, Parker-Varney navigated months of remote learning, in which standardized tests were disrupted and absences soared. Teachers used those colorful pathways in a competency-based system to track what each student had learned — and hadn’t learned — in real time.

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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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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 22, 2019

Mastery-Based Learning is an excellent choice in these situations: If your traditional system of learn the material, take a test, move on isn’t working. If you use a system that spirals learning (like Everyday Math ), or circles back constantly on specific skills. What is MBL.

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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

AUGUST 5, 2021

TerritoriumCLR captures all aspects of learning and activities, in school and in life, into a complete competencies and skills transcript, empowering students to optimize their education and career. “We are thrilled to bring our Comprehensive Learner Record to U.S.

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MindShift

JUNE 21, 2016

Teachers would love to give each student individual attention whenever they need it, but packed classrooms often make that a difficult task. A Teaching Channel video spotlights Geneviève DeBose’s efforts to do a better job supporting diverse learning needs in one large public school classroom.

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ExcelinEd

JANUARY 22, 2020

Yet in many districts, this resource fails to produce positive changes in the classroom, despite substantial investments of money and time. Excel in Ed’s new policy brief, Transforming Professional Learning: Actions for States to Help Teachers Continuously Improve Their Instructional Practices , can help.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2020

It was really in the ‘80s and the ‘90s that the first satellite distance learning programs came up,” she adds, meaning students could sit in classrooms connected via interactive satellite TV. Back then, everything was asynchronous by default. “It At first, such synchronous teaching was expensive and cumbersome.

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