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New OECD study finds that U.S. adults rank low on literacy and numeracy, with dire implications for the future
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Radical personalization is the core innovation of the Big Picture school model--it was flex before we knew what to call it. Their approach to internships remains a best practice. Twenty years afte...
As Littky describes in The Big Picture, a 2004 ASCD book, the innovative interest-based school model is focused on educating one student at a time. Students are “assessed on their performance, on exhibitions and demonstrations of achievement, on motivation, and on the habits of mind, hand, heart, and behavior that they display – reflecting the real world evaluations and assessments that all of us face in our everyday lives.”
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As Littky describes in The Big Picture, a 2004 ASCD book, the innovative interest-based school model is focused on ===> educating one student at a time. <=== Students are “assessed on their performance, on exhibitions and demonstrations of achievement, on motivation, and on the habits of mind, hand, heart, and behavior that they display – reflecting the real world evaluations and assessments that all of us face in our everyday lives.” Learn more: - http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?tag=Competency
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The flipped classroom model generated a lot of excitement initially, but more recently some educators -- even those who were initial advocates -- have express
“One of the most important skills that any student can learn is where to go for information and resources,” Sams said. Instead of following a rigid curriculum, the two teachers decided on the key learning objectives of the class — the things they felt their students really needed to know –and structured the class around those.
Then they offered students a menu of resources that included instructional video, some sort of practice and links to the corresponding section of a textbook. The teachers became resources and helped provide benchmarks to keep students on track.
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“One of the most important skills that any student can learn is where to go for information and resources,” Sams said. Instead of following a rigid curriculum, the two teachers decided on the key learning objectives of the class — the things they felt their students really needed to know –and structured the class around those.
Then they offered students a menu of resources that included instructional video, some sort of practice and links to the corresponding section of a textbook. The teachers became resources and helped provide benchmarks to keep students on track.
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Ask an educator about what it's like teaching a room full of students, and you'll likely hear a similar refrain: No two kids learn the same way or grasp concepts at the exact same time.As a result, educators often say they resort to “teaching to the middle.”
More schools are starting to question whether traditional age-based classrooms are the best way to go, and to change the dynamic of teaching to the middle, they’re experimenting withcompetency-based learning, a system that moves kids along at different paces once they’ve shown they can grasp a key concept of a unit.
Kim Carter, executive director of QED Foundation, is a big supporter of competency-based learning.
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A chemist with no formal security training has become the latest self-taught high achiever to win the UK Cyber Security Challenge, fending off thousands of rivals in a series of competitions run over the last year.
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Competency matters!!!
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In Summary Author and educator, William Arthur Ward, once said,
===> “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” <====
More than ever we need our teachers to inspire our students each and every day. They need to lead by example. At the dojo, each class starts with the karate instructor taking a moment to recite their instructor pledge in front of the class. “I will teach this class as if it is the most important class I will ever teach. I am patient and enthusiastic.
===> I lead by example. <===
Their pledge sums up their personal and instructional goals and what they will do to promote the core beliefs and values of the school that day. Perhaps we need a daily pledge at our school too. I wonder if we can just steal the one from the karate school because they seem to have all the bases covered that we need to move forward.
====> Remember, it’s always about the kids. <===
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====> Remember, it’s always about the kids. <===
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"Competency-based learning" (CBL) is one of the newest buzz-phrases showing up on education blogs and in many legislative changes in education policy. New
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August 15, 2013 10:40 PM
Often the complaint or stopping point in the development for community level competency training at the industry endorsed level ... "We can't check competency online!".
There are really plenty of options though, from "selfie" videos of presentation delivery or skill demonstration, web-conference with video, Skype, FaceTime, YouTube upload, viewing and selecting the correct/incorrect video from a list ... the simple fact that creating video for distribution/sharing is almost too easy - a simple Press Here to publish online sometimes - means there really shoudn't be any need not to progress the online competency assessment model.
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Recently, I participated in two excellent Twitter chats on the #21stedchat hashtag. The first was about Assessing 21st Century Competencies and the second explored Marks and Grades in the 21st Cent...
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What is Competency Education? Why Competency Education The time for competency education has come. It is vitally important for our country to move away from the…
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In college:
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- My preferred #quote: “If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't #understand it yourself.” Albert Einstein #education #edchat
- The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done. - #quote The whole object of #education is...to develop the mind. The#mind should be a thing that works. Sherwood Anderson (1876–1941)
- #quote “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.” (Seneca the Younger) - #Learning2Learn: A good #TimeManagement = ALSO less #stress + BETTER #Learning! #Education #edchat #edtech #teachers#educators - The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher. Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) American author #quote
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If you're looking for some conflict resolution tips to use in school and the classroom, these are some of the best you can find.
Read more, very interesting...: http://edudemic.com/2012/11/conflict-resolution-tips/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
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Making Mastery Work: A Close-up View of Competence Education looks at the lessons learned by eleven schools that have taken part in the Proficiency-Based Pathways Project.
Read more, a MUST: http://www.educationnews.org/k-12-schools/competency-based-education-shows-promise-in-new-england/
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If you drop out of college or choose not to attend, it doesn't necessarily mean you don't have a bright future. With creativity, innovation, hard work and dedication, you may still become the next big name in business, the arts, or politics.
Gust MEES: it's not ONLY diplomas, but COMPETENCY ALSO who matters...
- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?q=competency
- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?tag=Competency
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The typical student is not who you think. They may be older, distance, and more advanced than expected. That's where competency-based learning shines.
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A guest post from Brent Capriotti, Curriculum Consultant for Pearson, looks at competency based learning and the idea of the 'mastery over minutes' concept.
CBL courses are personalized for students based on their incoming competency and areas of need. Students can focus on higher order thinking skills and higher value outcomes can be applied. They also have the freedom to accelerate their coursework and program completion. In many cases, curriculum is customizable to fit specific areas of student competency, versus “one size fits all” courses, directly altering the development and execution of the course. Course and topic level outcome data, or data rolled up to higher levels such as program and institutional outcomes, gives institutions detailed information for institutional assessment and improvement efforts. The data is timely, relevant and actionable, at the course or program level.
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CBL courses are personalized for students based on their incoming competency and areas of need. Students can focus on higher order thinking skills and higher value outcomes can be applied. They also have the freedom to accelerate their coursework and program completion. In many cases, curriculum is customizable to fit specific areas of student competency, versus “one size fits all” courses, directly altering the development and execution of the course. Course and topic level outcome data, or data rolled up to higher levels such as program and institutional outcomes, gives institutions detailed information for institutional assessment and improvement efforts. The data is timely, relevant and actionable, at the course or program level. Learn more: - http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?tag=Competency
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In order to implement modern technology in your classroom, you better know about the important skills modern teachers must have in order to succeed. Via Ana Cristina Pratas
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There’s been a lot of talk about 21st century learners, 21st century teachers, and connected classrooms. There’s a daily influx of new technology into your inbox and your classroom feels woefully behind the times even if you’re flipping your 1:1 iPad classroom that’s already online and part of a MOOC. What are modern teachers to do with all this jargon and techno-babble being thrown at them all day long? Simple. Take a step back. Breathe. And pick out just a small number of things you want to try in your classroom. Whether you’re itching to try a BYOD classroom or simply integrating a HyFlex model, it’s easy to take one digital step at a time, right? No need to try and revolutionize your classroom in one afternoon. That’s a recipe for failure. In my experience, I’ve seen teachers attempt to integrate 30 iPads into their classroom by handing them out and then trying to figure out which apps are worth using. Integrating something as powerful as the iPad takes months of preparation, professional development, and buy-in by the students. If they just think ‘hey a way for me to play Angry Birds during class!’ then you have a steep hill to climb. So that’s why I’d encourage you, the modern teacher, to tackle each modern method one at a time.
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MC2 STEM High School is an unusual year-round public school of about 270 students, located in Cleveland, Ohio. The school emphasizes integrated project-based learning, partnerships with business professionals, and real-world internship experiences ===> to help students understand the crucial link between academic achievement and their future economic success. <===
We visited their school and spent time with the dedicated adults and enthusiastic students who have helped create the school’s success. Take a look at this video for a glimpse into three students’ experiences there.
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“There’s no competitive advantage today in knowing more than the person next to you. The world doesn’t care what you know. What the world cares about is what you can do with what you know.”
- Tony Wagner
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From very early in my life, possibly in my elementary school years, but certainly by the time I was in high school, I've felt that the age-based grouping of children for education was ineffective, holding some students back, while forcing others ahead before they were ready. Even without digital learning techniques, I believe that students, all students, benefit from a system that takes each individual's learning styles and needs into account, recognizing mastery (or competency, as it's referred to in this infographic) as the basis for placement in each subject. The advent of digital learning systems provides the means for making such a process easier and more cost-effective than ever before, and I hope that our schools, regardless of whether they are brick & mortar or via the Internet, will continue to explore ways to help every child learn in the way that works best for them. 
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July 27, 2015 4:57 PM
I don't think about competency in exactly this way...but this conversation is a fabulous one to be in.
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“The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is now.” This ancient Chinese proverb sums up my view on why just three years ago it was time for my school, Sanborn Region...
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Should we be teaching children how to learn as well as what to learn? Well, duh! as the children say.
This task they struggle with, despite prompts from the teacher. ‘Haven’t you learnt anything??’ The student perception that nothing is learnt at school is a telling indictment of our content-driven curriculum which turns a budding 11 year old learner into a passive, spoon-fed test taker by 16.
Little wonder that we despair of our post-16 student’s ability to think for themselves at AS level.
The idea for the ‘learning to learn’ lessons developed from early work with raising standards groups in Year 11 where accelerated learning techniques and learning style strategies seemed to improve confidence and performance. My theory was why don’t we catch them before the rot sets in?
Trying to create a ‘learning’ school at a successful well-established comprehensive with a stable staff profile has been fascinating and a truly ‘learning’ experience. We have made some progress, we have had some resistance from staff but, most importantly, the students have really enjoyed the experience.
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Lexique du management des compétences...
Le lexique sur le management des compétences a été réalisé à partir des définitions et réflexions du ministère de l’Equipement et par la compilation de glossaires repérés sur Internet. Celui-ci décrit les principaux termes utilisés dans son domaine de compétences et certains mots contiennent des liens vers d’autres lexiques sur des thèmes annexes gérés par d’autres sites.
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Acquérir et transmettre des compétences Et Si on se formait au travail ? : un guide pratique pour passer d'une démarche de formation à une démarche de professionnalisation.
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Heutagogy and lifelong learning: A review of heutagogical practice and self-determined learning...
Heutagogy, a form of self-determined learning with practices and principles rooted in andragogy, has recently resurfaced as a learning approach after a decade of limited attention. In a heutagogical approach to teaching and learning, learners are highly autonomous and self-determined and emphasis is placed on development of learner capacity and capability with the goal of producing learners who are well-prepared for the complexities of today’s workplace. The approach has been proposed as a theory for applying to emerging technologies in distance education and for guiding distance education practice and the ways in which distance educators develop and deliver instruction using newer technologies such as social media.
Keywords: Lifelong learning; heutagogy; self-determined learning; andragogy; self-directed learning; social media; capability; competency; double-loop learning; reflection
Read more, very interesting...: http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/1076/2087
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Current research showing Americans are becoming less literate and mathematical with each generation. Can we turn this trend around?
New OECD study finds that U.S. adults rank low on literacy and numeracy, However the economy and innovation capability in the United States are still very competitive.
One reason could be that American labor market is good at attracting talented foreigners, offering them more money than they could make elsewhere., This comment comes from Andreas Schleicher, the O.E.C.D, deputy director for education and skills in an article recently published in the New York Times: Stubborn Skills Gap in America’s Work Force Published: October 8, 2013