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How to support your students’ executive functioning skills with the help of your LMS

Neo LMS

Nonetheless, self-evaluation is equally or more important since it allows students to properly assess their strengths and weaknesses and pinpoint the needed course of action. Done inadequately, self-assessment and monitoring can lead to serious issues that can impact students’ well-being. Working memory. Organization.

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Why a high-performing district is changing everything with competency-based learning

The Hechinger Report

Her teacher has embraced competency-based learning, which asks students to take more control in the classroom. Competency-based education is Taymore’s way of injecting more self-directed learning, communication and problem-solving into Melrose classrooms. MELROSE, Mass.

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Why Flipped Learning Is Still Going Strong 10 Years Later

Edsurge

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. It became know as the flipped classroom—a modern, video-based version of a model pioneered by a handful of higher ed professors during the 1990s. Flipped OS.

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Curriculum Design is Emotional Work—This Teacher Makes It Easier

Edsurge

Beginning that very first year in my Algebra classroom, I've strived to make it easier for educators to design their own curriculum. competency-based (a.k.a. standards-based) school for at-risk youth, pre-packaged curriculum and assessments offered very little flexibility for personalization or modification.

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Mastery Simplified: Five Tips to Make Mastery a Reality

Turning Learning On Its Head

Recently I have been helping a number of teachers move from a flipped classroom to the Flipped Mastery classroom. A mastery classroom is difficult to implement because students are not all learning the same thing at the same time. What is a Flipped Mastery Classroom? This is not a new idea.

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What the Shortcomings of EdTech Mean for Improving Distance Learning and Schools

MindShift

Despite all the promises of education technology in transforming how students learn, change has been, at best, incremental. Bold claims have been made in the past decade about personalized learning, automated assessments and massive open online courses (MOOCs).

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

The Hechinger Report

At Montpelier High School, in Vermont’s capital city, teachers spent years defining the school’s “proficiencies” and rewriting their lesson plans to highlight those core objectives in the lead-up to the transition in 2016, when all grades and classes switched to a proficiency-based model at once. Michael Dougherty for The Hechinger Report.