A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 5, 2023

A standout example of this is Quest Academy Junior High School in Utah. 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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Neo LMS

JUNE 28, 2022

Learn how your school LMS can empower students and help them become efficient autonomous learners. . For example, an independent student will be better equipped to face personal and professional challenges without constantly relying on others. . At the same time, each student has a different learning pace. Flipped classes.

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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. So for example, actually I had a big AHA when writing the book.

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Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2021

to offer students who take online college courses a physical space to study and interact. Instead of tests and essays, competency-based education assigns students projects inspired by “real-world” scenarios drawn directly from work environments, Trent says. In Denver, there’s a suite in an office complex.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2023

After unprecedented learning loss, growing disparities in educational outcomes and overall public dissatisfaction, the time is right for an education overhaul. A decade ago, barely half of all states had policies in place that allowed for personalized, competency-based learning. We should ask no less of ourselves.

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Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

For example, if most of your students spend too much time on a particular section compared to others, then maybe the content within that section is too hard for them. This is an excellent way of identifying if there are any sections that students might be struggling with, for example, an assessment that they can’t get past.

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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

Nonetheless, self-evaluation is equally or more important since it allows students to properly assess their strengths and weaknesses and pinpoint the needed course of action. This is important since working memory impacts the way students complete learning tasks, especially since it can affect how students work with information.

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Neo LMS

MAY 21, 2019

Of course, we don’t live in an ideal world where it is possible to communicate with parents at all times. For example, if you need to communicate factual information , do it via email. For example, a student can be praised for their reading progress and given suggestions for improvement on their equations. Consistency.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The other lever I think we have is working with the system itself, where we move to a competency-based world. I view competency-based learning as a form of mastery learning. Mastery learning tends to apply to the individual skills or small sets of skills, while competency is, do you know algebra now?

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

As reporter Linda Jacobson noted in the article, online learning has long been used in schools for subjects they couldn’t otherwise offer. Calculus and Latin as examples. But even courses we think of as fundamental—physics, for example—have long been glaring areas where schools haven’t had qualified teachers.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2020

Since the 1990s and the rise of online video conferencing, though, it has been possible for educators to choose which activities in their distance-education courses to conduct synchronously and which to leave as asynchronous. Mike Caulfield is one of the people stressing the value of minimalist online course construction at this time.

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Edsurge

MAY 2, 2018

Emily Lai, Director of Formative Assessment and Feedback at Pearson But new, externally audited, efficacy research from Pearson about one of the company’s third-party apps shows a significant correlation between increased retesting and lower overall course performance. It is normally used to help lagging students build math skills.

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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. Time, place, path and pace are one set of examples. Deeper Learning.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2023

EdSurge: When you arrived at Southern New Hampshire back in 2003, there were some online courses but just a few. SNHU had these satellite sites on Navy bases. It was changing the way we were doing courses. We want to learn about the good things they do. Or read a partial transcript, edited for clarity, below.

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Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2018

Back then, the Chinese language program at Latin had begun piloting a proficiency-based model, which is structured differently from a traditional grade-based model. The transition raised multiple challenges including course placement, grading, and community communications. On that front, we were lucky to have the school’s back.

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Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2020

Because schools stitch their majors and requirements together in proprietary, sometimes idiosyncratic ways, Econ 101 at one institution may in fact be quite different from the same course taught at another institution. In an education world driven more by inputs than learning outcomes, it’s hard to prove the case one way or the other.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Now, with learning back in person in many places in the country, Lindsay’s experience keeping kids mostly on track, even during the most chaotic of times, offers lessons to other districts. With about a day planning, [teachers] shift right into distance learning,” Rooney said. Students on a break at Lindsay High School.

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Turning Learning On Its Head

AUGUST 10, 2021

Yet the more I think about education and the more I chat with educators from around the world, the more convinced I am that one of the great needs in education is to move to a Mastery/Competency Based learning model. How the Course Will Operate. In a mastery course, your goal is to master the content, not earn a grade.

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Edsurge

APRIL 14, 2017

There’s an old joke that the original form of distance education is sitting in the back of a large lecture course. Education technology researcher George Siemens and a colleague hope that personalized learning approaches can help better connect professors and students in large classes.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 30, 2016

As more adults than ever before enroll in postsecondary education programs and a variety of players—from bootcamps to online and mobile course providers—offer options tailored to match adults’ work and family circumstance, traditional colleges and universities have struggled to keep pace.

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Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2023

That’s one reason why the foundation has been pondering whether and how to revise its time-based learning standard for a few years now. For example, the University of Delaware recently announced plans to extend classes by five minutes to comply with federal requirements built around credit hours.

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Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2020

These three key practices—blended learning, self-pacing, and mastery-based grading—not only support each student at their specific level, but also prevent misunderstandings or absences from compounding over the course of the year. Example of a sixth grade pacing tracker.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Take] nurses, for example. And you do have K-12 systems including here in my home state of New Hampshire that are moving to competency-based frameworks. So the other thing this allows of course, are kids to move faster or slower through the system. If I'm hiring somebody and I say, ‘Oh, you took managerial accounting.’

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2018

AI will have its place in teaching and learning, but transparency will be one of the key attributes of its effective application. For example, some students could benefit from a personal assistant who reminds them of upcoming due dates, asks if they need help using a particular tool or feature in an online class, and provides study tips.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

FlexPath – only at Capella University – lets teachers work at their own pace to earn their MEd in a competency-based learning format. This subscription-based tuition model doesn’t limit the number of courses you can complete during each 12-week period, enrolling in up to two courses at once, for one flat tuition rate.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2017

Blended learning in credit-recovery courses and alternative schools—areas where students would often have no brick-and-mortar options—has gotten a bad rap because of questions about the rigor of the online learning experience. The school’s graduating class this summer had an 89.8

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2017

On top of all these challenges, higher education itself is, of course, seeing a variety of potential disrupters emerge, all powered at least in part through online learning. degree programs that specialize in training students for careers that combine elements from law, business and government—in international trade, for example.

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Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2017

For those teaching online courses, professors at California State University at Channel Islands have some advice: don’t be a robot. No one wants to feel like a cog in the wheel, especially not when it comes to something as personal as learning. EdSurge: I wanted to talk about your Humanizing Online Learning training course.

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techlearning

MAY 29, 2018

In addition, we are one of 10 high school districts in Illinois that has started to move to competency-based learning. We started by marrying the traditional, content-driven course work with performance-based assessment.

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 6, 2019

The new paradigm allows for students to be placed at appropriate points for them on the predetermined highways of learning, with customization byways as needed. This breaks up the traditional age/grade groupings to make way for dynamic groupings based on individual progress. Auto-Cohorting.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 20, 2020

Of course, a grading overhaul like this requires a huge shift in a school’s approach to teaching and assessment. But now, they’re really responsible for every bit of what they need to learn in their grade level.” For that reason, SBG takes on many different forms across the country. “But

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2018

One of the more radical departures is its rejection of a fixed course schedule, organized by credit hours or semesters; students advance as soon as they can demonstrate they’ve mastered the material. The International Association for K-12 Online Learning urged in December that competency-based learning be expanded.

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Neo LMS

APRIL 5, 2022

For example, they can use gamification in their classroom to boost engagement. . Intelligent learning platform benefits for Higher Ed institutions. For example, the university can add alumni accounts for former students who specialize in different fields. A more personalized learning experience. Yet, this is not all. .

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 18, 2015

If Loveless had kept up with our writing (not that I blame him for not) or read Disrupting Class with a bit more of a nuanced eye, he would have seen that we didn’t pin our argument on multiple intelligences or learning styles per se—we were quite up front that we are not experts in the learning sciences by any means.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 7, 2019

What it means is that the system is helping you to learn what you need, when you need it, in a way that makes sense to you, as opposed to a typical education environment where maybe at school everyone of a certain age goes through the same course, at the same time and, as most of us know, is not really the best thing.

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Regardless of the type, students should be able to set their own learning goals within the platform, have them set by their teachers or mentors or have them suggested by the platform itself. Here are a few examples: Master Photosynthesis — This is a very specific goal.

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