Turning Learning On Its Head

MARCH 13, 2016

During the 2007-2008 school year, Aaron Sams and I pioneered the flipped class model of education. In 2011, a group of educators met at the Competency Based Learning Summit. During that Summit, the leaders identified five key tenets of Competency Based Learning (CBL): Students advance upon mastery.

Competency Based Learning 40

Competency Based Learning Flipped Classroom Learning Assessment 40

TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 12, 2020

Competency-Based Learning. Competency-Based Education is something I’m hearing more and more about, which is neither bad nor good, but worth understanding more carefully. MOOCs are great ideas, but assessment and feedback loops and certification are among the many issues holding them back.

Examples 141

Examples MOOC Education Competency Based Learning 141

MindShift

JULY 9, 2015

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.

Competency Based Learning 28

Competency Based Learning Learning System Assessment 28

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Since the 2008 Time magazine cover story on Washington, D.C. That made fiscal and pedagogical sense. Under the ed reform push to get public money in private hands, some very powerful people want teachers to shut up and do as we are told. What do teachers want?

Competency Based Learning 205

Competency Based Learning Data Outcomes Professional Learning 205

Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Ten years ago two Colorado chemistry teachers unleashed a brash concept on a K-12 landscape where few questioned the age-old formula of lecture, homework, assess, repeat. By 2008 it had its own conference, FlipCon (which closed in 2016). I said, ‘Look, here’s what I expect you to learn, and here’s everything you need to learn it.

Flipped Classroom 132

Flipped Classroom Khan Academy Learning Video 132

eSchool News

MARCH 4, 2024

They’ve shrunk because there are fewer students thanks to a broader demographic decline in new births that began in 2008 and hasn’t changed. Portrait of a graduate and rethinking assessment An increasing number of states have moved to create portraits of a graduate —what they believe students should know and be able to do upon graduation.

Trends 113

Trends Assessment Competency Based Learning Outcomes 113

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

After clawing his way through college, however, he had a distinguished career in education — first as a middle school science teacher (where he and Bette met), then as a long-time member and chair of New Hampshire’s state board of education, and now as president of the nonprofit National Center for Competency-Based Learning.

Education 0

Education Course Laptops Blended Learning 0