I receive questions along the way from different colleagues, clients and people trying to find their way through personalized, competency-based education. Last week I had a chance to speak with students from Michael Golden’s class at UPenn. Here are some short responses to each of the follow-up questions I received:
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Do students pass from one grade to another based on their mastery level? Does that mean every child would have a different learning journey that would not be based on a fixed time interval? In such a case, do you think that CBE could lead to even more inequity than the current traditional system?….. Read More
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What if a child is unable to reach the mastery level? What do you think can be CBE’s negative impact on a child’s self-efficacy?
These are one of these types of questions where we hold the new shiny bright innovation up to a number of important questions but can easily forget to ask the same of the traditional system…… Read More
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What is the role of summative assessment?
Such a good question. I didn’t have an answer to this until I visited Champlain Valley Unified High School (CVU) on behalf of Mastery Transcript Consortium last fall.
CVU has intentionally and thoughtfully aligned grading policy with the goal of maximizing learning…… Read More
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What countries are implementing competency-based education? Is there any insight into the cultures that are more aligned with it?
This question isn’t easy to answer in that the term “competency education” has slightly different meanings around the world. If the question is, how many countries are advancing towards personalized,….. Read More
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How do teachers manage a community of learners when students are all at different levels?
This is a question that comes up a lot because it is so hard to imagine a different way of doing things.
To start answering this question: remember that teachers already have classrooms where students are at different levels…… Read More
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Competency-based education and its partner, personalized learning, are expanding across the U.S as well as in pockets of innovation around the world.
Below are short case studies from schools in the U.S. and in Aotearoa New Zealand to give you a feel for what a personalized, competency-based approach to education can look like…… Read More
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High school is a lot of things…and one of those things is that it is one long four year old game based on the rules set for grading. Students can get points added or subtracted for behaviors. At some schools they might get more points for taking an AP course…… Read More
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It continues to be a pleasure to read the story of Chugach School District’s journey of transformation described in Delivering on the Promise: The Education Revolution (DeLorenzo, Battino, Schreiber, and Carrio, 2009). Even though the term competency-based education is not mentioned once in the book,….. Read More
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I just heard that Westminster (formerly Adams 50) Public School’s superintendent Pamela Swanson has been picked as the 2020 Superintendent of the Year by the Colorado Association of School Executives. Congrats! It’s wonderful to see Swanson (and her team’s) leadership recognized. They’ve been working at developing a personalized,….. Read More
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All the photos of students actively engaged in learning were used in the original blogs on CompetencyWorks. They are courtesy of Allison Shelley/The Verbatim Agency for American Education: Images of Teachers and Students in Action.
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