A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 16, 2022

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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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 8, 2023

Over the years, the state of Utah has provided me with a plethora of opportunities to work with schools on Personalized Competency-Based Learning ( PCBL ). I am always fascinated by how high-agency strategies can unlock the potential of learners.

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Neo LMS

JULY 15, 2021

So let’s explore a few online learning trends that I think are currently shaping how colleges and universities will prepare students for the future. Competency-based learning. Students have unique learning needs, and they also have different background knowledge. Change is inevitable. Digital credentials.

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Turning Learning On Its Head

MARCH 13, 2016

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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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

It’s no longer what happens in the learning environment, but what happens when edtech comes into the mix and how we can enrich that environment. Here are a few ideas on using edtech to promote growth mindset: Showing progress through competency-based learning. Read more: The PROs and CONs of competency-based learning.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 6, 2020

School districts are seeing the value of embedding micro-credentials in existing professional learning pathways to promote educator agency, recognize educators developing their practice, and expand competency-based learning practices with students.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2020

For all parents, learning how to find an appropriate work-family balance is of paramount importance. For years, we have made it our mission to help educators reimagine their schools and classrooms with a model known as competency-based learning. Competency education differs from the way that most of us learned in school.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 5, 2023

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). The strategies Eric has given my teachers have been invaluable.

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Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

As an educator and Executive Director at the Inclusive Higher Education Certificate Program ( IHECP ), I can honestly say that my students have experienced a smooth transition to the online learning environment. As schools and universities reopen their gates, there’s great hope that there will soon be more in-person learning.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 6, 2023

At the height of COVID-19, many schools weren’t able to undertake the full process of selecting and implementing a learning management system (LMS), even if they knew that this step would be foundational to achieving their vision for student learning.

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Neo LMS

JUNE 28, 2022

Here are a few common strategies that support student autonomy. . The flipped classroom allows students to acquire new concepts at home via engaging videos, online courses, or even game-based learning. Competency-based learning and automation . It’s also connected to competency-based learning.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 19, 2017

One of the biggest reasons for my growth as an educator has been competency-based learning. A growth mindset allowed me to learn that failure can be productive and growth comes from ongoing reflection and practice, not a one-and-done attempt. What an incredible way for teachers to learn and grow professionally.

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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. 00;06;31;21 – 00;06;53;08 Jon Bergmann A couple of strategies.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 7, 2019

And another reason is just the lack of awareness of the various strategies and also how to implement gamification in an effective way. Graham: In those kinds of conversations the first thing I would ask them is “Is that based on empirical evidence or just what you think is going to happen?” Competency-based learning.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 25, 2018

The rapid development of more sophisticated and available technology that teachers can use as tools to help meet various learning needs. Despite a tangle of rules and regulations, district-level policies support a school environment that elevates learner voice and choice through personalization.

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Edsurge

MAY 31, 2017

Specifically, they will need to understand how to reflect on their learning choices, which in turn inform their passions, which in turn trigger motivation, desire, and effort. We often think about competency-based learning as an input—a method of instruction that is mastery based and not time-based.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

As the number of districts and states adopting micro-credentials into their professional learning strategy continues to grow, it is critical that stakeholders step back to take a pulse of the ecosystem. The value of shifting to a personalized, competency-based learning model for students and educators is increasingly clear.

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Neo LMS

APRIL 5, 2022

Read more: 8 Strategies for increasing student self-efficacy in online education. The purpose of learning goals and recommended content is to enable competency-based learning , making students more independent and flexible. Lower dropout rates.

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Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

They can also provide timely and constructive feedback so students can learn how to improve, and not dwell on what they perceive as a failure to learn. To develop competence, students can be taught effective strategies for learning. Read more: The PROs and CONs of competency-based learning.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 8, 2016

Enter micro-credentials : competency-based recognition for educator learning that is supported by digital badges. Four recent developments have set the stage for micro-credentials: #1 – Competency-based learning for students. It’s an efficient, productive, and personalized strategy.

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Neo LMS

MAY 18, 2021

Teaching ensures performance, personalized learning , alternative learning pathways, self-paced learning, adjustment of content, and continuous support. Read more: The PROs and CONs of competency-based learning. Summative assessments evaluate learning achievement.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 23, 2021

Since its inception, Digital Promise has been researching and designing approaches, in partnership with school districts across the country, to enable schools and teachers to create and implement strategies to support learner variability , an initiative currently led by our Chief Learning Officer, Vic Vuchic.

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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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Education Elements

AUGUST 19, 2015

Today we have access to more instructional strategies, procedures, and technologies than ever before.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 27, 2017

For many, competency-based learning might have been the first thing to pop in their heads. But others might have considered challenge-based, community-based or even case-based learning. Cator’s organization has tried to brand CBL as challenge-based learning.) Department of Education.

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Edsurge

JULY 13, 2016

But what has been left unsaid is how our current system of education works systematically against instilling these skills in students, and how we could naturally embed the development of grit in students—in a way that doesn’t talk explicitly about grit—by moving to a competency-based learning system.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2017

Slope of Enlightenment: Competency-Based Learning. Alongside personalized learning are a whole heap of concepts that some have declared are a necessary part of personalized learning. Competency-based learning is one of these. But there is a phrase for that: deeper learning.

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

JANUARY 26, 2022

Teachers needed to learn strategies and see good models for student-centered learning; students could not become empowered, confident, and self-directed overnight. In their chapter "Making Shifts in Teaching and Learning Structures," the authors share a table of criteria types to plan performance assessments (Table 3.6,

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2016

One of the challenges in trying out new learning strategies, including those that embrace technology, is that schools have a tough time finding out which new methods work best – which ones actually help kids learn. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter. based nonprofit organization, for five years.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Since we launched the League in 2011, we’ve been proud to recognize over 70 school districts and their superintendents as they work to solve the challenges facing today’s K-12 schools through innovative strategies. In Vancouver, Wash.,

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

With rigorous, competency-based learning, effort is all but guaranteed since students must keep working until they truly master material. If they’ve mastered a course unit, they’re allowed to demonstrate that mastery and move on. They simply can’t move on until they’ve grasped the subject matter.

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

MARCH 10, 2020

I would argue that the principles laid out in the book are critical for moving to competency-based learning, as you need strong, clear, and consistent standards-based grading (SBG) practices to get there. Breaking with Tradition: The Shift to Competency-Based Learning in PLCs at Work by Brian M.

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Neo LMS

JUNE 21, 2022

For example, students can set learning goals such as “Learn fractions” and the platform will automatically show them content recommendations such as “watch this video about fractions.”. Additionally, competency-based learning shows students their progress in achieving goals through self-monitoring features.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Since we launched the League in 2011, we’ve been proud to recognize over 70 school districts and their superintendents as they work to solve the challenges facing today’s K-12 schools through innovative strategies. In Vancouver, Wash.,

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 14, 2022

“Digital Promise’s Research-Based Design Product Certification recognizes the edtech products that incorporate research about learning into their design and development. Congratulations to 95 Percent Group for demonstrating that research informs product design.”.

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Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2018

The proficiency-based model is closely related to competency-based learning, where students are grouped with those who are closest to their language abilities, regardless of age or seat time. Different teachers have different strategies. My mind spun for a moment.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 30, 2016

Universities must view their continuing education schools as a key part of their overall innovation strategy—such that these programs are empowered not only to innovate on the side, but to leverage strategic investments and grow, even if that means displacing traditional university programs in some cases.

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