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Competency Based Learning: How Flipped Mastery Makes CBL Possible

Turning Learning On Its Head

But as I thought about it, I had a library of videos which this student could watch and she could work independently of the other students. In 2011, a group of educators met at the Competency Based Learning Summit. Competencies include explicit, measurable, transferable learning objectives that empower students.

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

Neo LMS

Use the syllabus to explain the competencies students have to attain, whether or not they’ll receive a completion certificate, and add any books or other materials they’ll need to study for the class. . Add competencies for each class . Competency-based learning helps you track student progress and identify learning gaps.

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Are Your Students as Far Behind as Mine?

EdTechTeacher

The Brookings Institute did a study and found that math and reading scores dropped significantly and that this disproportionately impacted students from marginalized communities. . I am not flipping my class per se anymore, but rather I am teaching using Mastery/Competency-Based Learning in my class. .

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Are Your Students as Far Behind as Mine?

Turning Learning On Its Head

The Brookings Institute did a study and found that math and reading scores dropped significantly and that this disproportionately impacted students from marginalized communities. I am not flipping my class per se anymore, but rather I am teaching using Mastery/Competency-Based Learning in my class.

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Why Continuing Education Programs Are Poised to Become Hubs of Innovation

Edsurge

In Wisconsin in 1912, Charles McCarthy, the founder of the Legislative Reference Library and a strong advocate of Extension education, wrote glowingly of his experiences with the Wisconsin Extension Division and deliberately contrasted it with the “aristocratic” tendencies of traditional higher education.

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Amazing Grace Adkins – my 89 year old learning lab director and the most amazing woman I know

The CoolCatTeacher

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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Vermont’s ‘all over the map’ effort to switch schools to proficiency-based learning

The Hechinger Report

. — Remi Savard is one of the last students at Montpelier High School who remembers what class was like before the school switched to a proficiency-based model three years ago. “If If you brought a pencil to class or not, that would be factored into your grade,” the high school senior said during a study period in the library.