eSpark

AUGUST 4, 2021

Our team submitted evidence to Digital Promise confirming a link between eSpark’s curriculum design and established research on how students learn. The seven elements of eSpark’s Theory of Learning are each backed by rigorous educational studies to ensure academic growth and retention for every student. “At

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2020

Avery Bencal is a fourth grader at Winthrop Elementary School in Melrose, Massachusetts. Her teacher has embraced competency-based learning, which asks students to take more control in the classroom. If a student was particularly interested in a topic not offered in an existing course, she suggested an independent study.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

By thinking about educators more inclusively than classroom teachers, we can frame pedagogical competencies in ways that are as meaningful to high school physics teachers as museum educators working with groups of elementary students.

Digital Badges 120

Digital Badges Education Competency Based Learning Assessment 120

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

By thinking about educators more inclusively than classroom teachers, we can frame pedagogical competencies in ways that are as meaningful to high school physics teachers as museum educators working with groups of elementary students.

Digital Badges 120

Digital Badges Competency Based Learning Education Assessment 120

Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2021

From elementary school through high school and college, these tracks often become “ traps ” that reinforce systemic inequalities in our society. Often as early as fourth or fifth grade students are sorted into different “tracks” for math with different paces, levels of depth, and unspoken expectations of student long term success.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2017

Does competency-based education hold the key to providing an equitable learning opportunity to every student? As she puts it, competency-based learning “gives students the chance. Our students and staff embrace, study, and promote social justice and protect the rights of others. social justice.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2017

In my visits to elementary, middle, and high schools around the country this past academic year, here are five tips I took away for how educators can get beyond the buzz to implementation. My visit to Maple Hill Elementary School in the Enlarged City School District of Middletown, NY blew that notion to shreds.

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Blended Learning Competency Based Learning Elementary Course 113

Tech Helpful

APRIL 29, 2016

Today as the elementary school ended its field day with the ever famous grade level four way tug-of-war, like always I played my obligatory role of chief encourager of a team. I find myself being more and more challenged to create learning environments like that. This year it was team green. You can do it!" "Dig Dig in" etc.

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Competency Based Learning Assessment Elementary Study 44

Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

But at Memorial Elementary School , one of two elementary schools in New Hampshire’s Sanborn Regional School District , administrators and teachers are given the freedom to experiment with cutting-edge ideas not in spite of district and state guidelines, but because of them. They dubbed the behaviors “Work-Study Practices” (WSP).

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Assessment Elementary System Academic Standards 82

The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 13, 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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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 18, 2015

Again, although I am no expert, the research suggests that a strong foundation of knowledge is critical for future learning and meaningful participation in and contribution to society (but it’s also not sufficient, which is why developing deeper skills and dispositions are so important—a false either-or from which we need to move away).

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Personalized Learning Learning Education Competency Based Learning 40

techlearning

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Other features and functionality include interactive puzzles, word-free block based programming, different stages for all learners, and more. Users can also use the NEO advanced features such as automation, gamification, learning paths, and competency-based learning directly from the Windows App.

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Tools PresenceLearning Edmodo Blackboard 71

Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2017

Inside Higher Ed reports that “ National University is working to create a personalized education platform that combines three of the buzziest innovations in higher education – adaptive learning, competency-based learning and predictive analytics for student retention.”

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Khan Academy Elsevier Education MOOC 46