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MAY 12, 2020

14 Examples Of Innovation In Higher Education. Today, I’m going back and updating the post with some new thinking, examples of innovation, a revised order, some links for context, and excerpts from longer papers on innovation at the university level. Six Common Examples Of Innovation In Higher Education. An example?

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Learning increases when lessons are concluded in a manner that helps students organize and remember the point of the lesson. At the time, this model was both a practical and effective means for planning direct instruction and was readily embraced as this was the primary strategy used in classrooms. Don’t reinvent the wheel.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 5, 2023

Whether you lead a district, organization, school, or classroom, you should always strive to get better. A standout example of this is Quest Academy Junior High School in Utah. In typical fashion, I moved from ideas and concepts to concrete examples of evidence from my other coaching projects to illustrate practicality and efficacy.

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Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

For example, in an accessible online learning environment, you can add subtitles to all educational videos you present to students, including your pre-recorded lectures. In the typical classroom environment, this is an enormous and often insurmountable challenge. Competency-based learning. Conclusion.

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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. Jon Bergmann is one of the pioneers of the Flipped Classroom.

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Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

For example, if most of your students spend too much time on a particular section compared to others, then maybe the content within that section is too hard for them. This is an excellent way of identifying if there are any sections that students might be struggling with, for example, an assessment that they can’t get past.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 6, 2023

Some districts seek to expand their LMS use, while others evaluating whether tools like Google Classroom or Seesaw are sufficient to meet their community’s needs. The COVID-19 pandemic offers an apt example of this mentality. As schools plan for the future, many administrators are now focusing on their district’s LMS strategy.

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 9, 2022

English Year 10/2022-2023 with an orange color scheme and a specific image is a good example of how to organize your classes easier even when you have two or three classes on the same subject and level. Read more: Positive student-teacher relationships: 8 Ways to build stronger connections in the classroom. Check classroom technology

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Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2023

For more than 100 years, high schools and colleges have relied on the same stalwart tool to measure teaching and learning: the clock. That’s because earning credit toward a diploma or degree typically requires students to spend a minimum number of hours receiving instruction in the classroom.

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Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2020

Last summer, we, along with other members of the sixth grade teaching staff at our school, adopted the Modern Classrooms model. Similar to the flipped classroom, the model is an approach based on blended learning, self-paced instruction, and mastery-based grading. Example of a sixth grade pacing tracker.

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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. Help their minds get ready to learn using mindful practices.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 8, 2022

It’s the philosophical core of Khan Academy, and decades of research shows that mastery learning works. The nationally representative survey of teachers shows that the majority of teachers are using mastery learning or would like to. For example: 53% of teachers use mastery learning in their classrooms.

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Neo LMS

JUNE 21, 2022

This is important since working memory impacts the way students complete learning tasks, especially since it can affect how students work with information. For example, a student who constantly struggles with solving a multi-step problem or following more complex directions may have working memory issues. Regulating emotions.

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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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Edsurge

DECEMBER 1, 2021

So the system will know, okay, student A is part of teacher B's classroom. And so with one teacher and 30 kids in a classroom, how do you navigate that logistically? And that's where Khan Academy can be valuable—because now the students can learn and master at their own time and pace. And that's valuable. Can you write well?

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2022

As challenging as the last two years have been, academically and on the mental health of teachers and students , some schools have worked collectively, distributing devices, developing new health and safety protocols and shifting to virtual classrooms. Tools powered by artificial intelligence will also help.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

As reporter Linda Jacobson noted in the article, online learning has long been used in schools for subjects they couldn’t otherwise offer. Calculus and Latin as examples. But even courses we think of as fundamental—physics, for example—have long been glaring areas where schools haven’t had qualified teachers. She cited A.P.

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Edsurge

JULY 13, 2016

In Paul Tough’s new book, he writes that the people who are best at engendering “noncognitive”—or character—abilities like grit in students hardly ever mention these skills in the classroom. In today’s system, time is held as a constant and each student’s learning is variable. As a result, they develop major holes in their learning.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2017

Rather than focus on “personalized learning” as a specific thing, the framework it has developed is designed to measure the degree of personalization in the classroom along four dimensions: learner connected, learner focused, learner demonstrated, and learner led. Time, place, path and pace are one set of examples.

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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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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 22, 2019

Success in an MBL program is defined by the achievement of competencies , not intangible performance measures or student-to-student comparisons. Now, proof of learning requires evidence that the student understood the concepts, achieved the skills, and completed required tasks. What is MBL.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

. — On a morning this fall at Washington Elementary, a young boy, sitting at a table with five of his peers, held a tablet while he built a digital snowman — a cool proposition given the 85-degree heat just outside his air-conditioned classroom. Teachers rarely stand at the front of the classroom.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2020

It was really in the ‘80s and the ‘90s that the first satellite distance learning programs came up,” she adds, meaning students could sit in classrooms connected via interactive satellite TV. Back then, everything was asynchronous by default. “It At first, such synchronous teaching was expensive and cumbersome.

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Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2018

I had just transitioned back into the classroom at Latin School of Chicago from a job in publishing and this was not the kind of question that I had prepared myself to answer. Back then, the Chinese language program at Latin had begun piloting a proficiency-based model, which is structured differently from a traditional grade-based model.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2021

. — At first glance, the binders incorporating a whole year of learning at the Parker-Varney elementary school in Manchester look a little like Candy Land, the beloved game of chance where players navigate a colorful route past delicious landmarks to arrive at a Candy Castle. This story also appeared in The Washington Post. The response?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Teachers shoulder the stress and try our best to ensure that true best practices are used in our classrooms, while at the same time we are often forced to sip the Kool-Aid of the highly-paid consultants du jour in lieu of designing our own professional development. You may be surprised by this list if you aren’t a classroom teacher.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2016

One is an expansion of a coalition of schools that share best practices, called the League of Innovative Schools; the other is a comprehensive report on the ways that competency-based learning initiatives have grown in the six New England states. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter. They test new strategies.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

These two examples highlight some of the key limitations of today’s “seat-time” centric models for teacher professional development. In contrast, imagine a world where educators may be immediately and widely recognized for specific knowledge, skills, and mindsets that they demonstrate in transparent, competency-based ways.

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Digital Badges Education Competency Based Learning Assessment 120

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

These two examples highlight some of the key limitations of today’s “seat-time” centric models for teacher professional development. In contrast, imagine a world where educators may be immediately and widely recognized for specific knowledge, skills, and mindsets that they demonstrate in transparent, competency-based ways.

Digital Badges 120

Digital Badges Competency Based Learning Education Assessment 120

Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Sarah never smiled in my classroom. We can begin with the shared high expectation that all students in our classroom have the ability to achieve mastery of foundational mathematical skills and habits of mind. We can make mastery the outcome of learning and not a given amount of time in a classroom.

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Edsurge

MAY 2, 2018

Implications For Educators Lai says that she is not sure whether this finding is a result of a flawed product design or if the way the app was used in in the classroom was ineffective. For example, they may want to encourage their students to do more practice questions before taking QuizMe for learning objectives.”

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Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2018

With our new focus, we are one of 10 high school districts in Illinois that have started to move to competency-based learning. For us, it starts by marrying the traditional, content-driven coursework with performance-based assessment. For example, one student did an organic gardening activity for a restaurant.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 11, 2017

Through this work, we see powerful examples of innovation across education — from students creating their own virtual reality (VR) films, to researchers working with technology developers to improve edtech efficacy, to educators rethinking their own professional development with the use of micro-credentials.

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2018

AI will have its place in teaching and learning, but transparency will be one of the key attributes of its effective application. For example, some students could benefit from a personal assistant who reminds them of upcoming due dates, asks if they need help using a particular tool or feature in an online class, and provides study tips.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2017

But the Office of Educational Options at BCPS works hard with its teachers to keep standards high so that students are not merely recovering credits to graduate, but also learning. For example, in one English project, teacher ask students to choose a contemporary problem of interest to them. Routines were crisp.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2017

Higher education innovation” is no different, though instead of flying cars and Mars colonies, what likely comes to mind first are online and competency-based learning platforms, learning management systems, or electronic whiteboards. There are two approaches to innovation: stop-gap and future-proof.

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