Sentences with phrase «toward learning competencies»

If we can move away from seat time and toward learning competencies, we can accelerate their accumulation of credit and speed up or slow down based on their interests and abilities.

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This points to a desperate need to move toward a competency - based learning system that measures and rewards individual student growth, as well as an underlying shared learning infrastructure that allows the country to identify each unique student in a consistent way — so that when he or she moves geographies, the student's record does as well — and to keep track of what that student knows and can do in a consistent way across geographies.

The online training program's diverse assessment system and its flexibility should help us move toward a competency - based learning system in which time is variable but learning is constant.

Otherwise an innovative drive toward «competency - based learning» devolves into fraudulent online credit recovery.

Specific trends include: personalized learning; large - scale initiatives such as Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and 1:1, makerspaces; digital badging / microcredentials as a move toward competency based learning; a redefinition of learning spaces; and the integration of academies and smaller learning communities (schools within a school) to provide more rigorous pathways that cater to the diverse interests of students.

This article is adapted from two reports authored by Freeland and published by the institute in 2014: «From policy to practice: How competency - based education is evolving in New Hampshire» and «Blending toward competency: Early patterns of blended learning and competency - based education in New Hampshire.»

When designing a competency, you keep both academic and 21st century skills in mind so that the competency moves toward applied learning of multiple learning objectives.

The experience supports a twofold foundation for instructional design: the learning theoretical concept of Etienne Wenger (1998) and an orientation toward participant cultures in terms of experiences and competencies, in order to facilitate collaborative knowledge building online.

Companies are moving away from traditional models and more toward competency - based training and performance support, and learning management systems are evolving to better support both MOOCs and mobile learning.

All Students have individual learning plans (ILPs) tailored to their specific needs and outlining the competencies and learning objectives that each student will work toward.

The relevance of the humanities rests on a broader understanding of humanism, an orientation toward teaching and learning that goes beyond workforce competency and credentialing to encompass personal and civic dimensions of life.

Henry County Schools, as part of its district vision and as a Next Generation Systems Initiative participant, is redesigning all 50 of its schools toward a personalized, competency - based model of learning.

Many universities are moving quickly toward competency based learning, following the lead of Western Governors University, Capella, and others.

Learning Objective: Assessment / Evaluation of Competencies Participants will recognize the importance of the assessment and evaluations processes as described in the NSLS that measure progress toward competency for learners, school librarians, and the school library.

Two kinds of prevention programs designed to promote the social and emotional competencies of preschool children have shown positive impacts: universal programs, which are usually teacher - taught and directed toward the entire classroom to promote social learning and positive peer relations; and indicated programs, which focus on remediating skill deficits and reducing existing behavioural problems that may lead to peer difficulties in some children.