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OPINION: We need more problem solvers and critical thinkers for an increasingly complex world

The Hechinger Report

They want step-by-step guidance on how to tackle challenges. That’s why I’m a fan of personalized and competency-based learning environments, in which young people do learn these skills. One professor reached out to tell me how impressed he was by the self-advocacy that students from our district demonstrated.

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New to Competency-Based Learning? Here're Five Ways to Assess It

Edsurge

According to a 2016 report by iNACOL, 36 states are currently investigating policy surrounding competency-based education. And as interest in this approach to teaching and learning increases, so does the need for assessments to support it. Below are five ways to approach competency-based learning assessment.

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15 Edtech items to include in your back-to-school checklist for teachers

Neo LMS

English Year 10/2022-2023 with an orange color scheme and a specific image is a good example of how to organize your classes easier even when you have two or three classes on the same subject and level. This way, everybody knows what to expect and how to behave online and offline. Organize LMS classes by name and color codes.

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Steps to Help Schools Transform to Competency-Based Learning

MindShift

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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OPINION: The time has come to stop assigning letter and number grades

The Hechinger Report

How can we maintain the same or a similar grading metric during times of unprecedented challenge? As educators, we have a responsibility to reimagine our habitual mindsets about how to evaluate student progress. there is already talk about changing grading policies. In some of the 16,800 school districts across the U.S.,

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OPINION: Let’s use the pandemic as a dress-rehearsal for much-needed digital transformation

The Hechinger Report

Related: How to plan for a future of education where disruption is the norm. And the digital transformation will honor learning that occurs outside of the classroom, allowing a shift to competency-based learning, perhaps using microcredentials and badges.

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Does the future of schooling look like Candy Land?

The Hechinger Report

They argue that challenging students to demonstrate competency on critical concepts only after they are prepared is a better and more motivating way to measure learning, and allows educators to address gaps before they grow over time. The pandemic really changed the policy conversation to more systemic shifts.” The response?