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Your Ticket to More Effective Lessons

A Principal's Reflections

Her Instructional Theory into Practice (ITIP) model helped me identify the strategies I would use on a daily basis to help my students learn. These included the anticipatory set (hook), reviewing prior learning, checking for understanding, forms of practice, and closure. Herein lies the main disadvantage of ITIP.

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How does an intelligent learning platform help teachers create a truly personalized learning environment?

Neo LMS

If you’re looking for a definition of personalized learning in the Glossary of Educational Reform, you’ll learn that: Personalized learning means addressing the distinct learning needs of each student with the help of different instructional approaches, educational programs, and learning strategies and experiences. .

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

Edsurge

Below are five ways to approach competency-based learning assessment. When teachers use formative assessments to measure that knowledge, they gather information necessary to adjust teaching and learning as needed.

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Improvement is a Never-Ending Process

A Principal's Reflections

During my first coaching visit at the school two years ago, I questioned how I could help get them to the next level as I saw firsthand the best scalable implementation of competency-based learning in the country. When it is all said and done, I have learned so much from them and I hope the feeling is mutual.

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Competency Based Learning: How Flipped Mastery Makes CBL Possible

Turning Learning On Its Head

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. You can get more information about the series HERE.

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8 LMS features that support student autonomy in the classroom and beyond

Neo LMS

Students need to be able to learn at their own pace to better grasp and retain information Self-paced, personalized learning allows them to gradually accumulate knowledge and competencies according to their needs and level. . Here are a few common strategies that support student autonomy. . Flipped classes.

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The 6 principles of mastery-based learning

Neo LMS

Read more: The PROs and CONs of competency-based learning. Mastery-based learning aims to clarify and inform everyone involved on evaluation standards and expectations. Formative assessments help teachers understand when and where to adjust their teaching strategies.

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