Competence Over Conformity!
Competency Over Conformity
What is Competency-Based Learning?
Competency-based learning is a personalized approach that focuses on students' mastery of skills and knowledge in and out of the classroom. This method ensures that learners are in the driver’s seat by allowing learners to progress at their own pace, ensuring they fully understand and can apply what they've learned before moving forward.
Join TCC’s Competency-Based Learning Cadre! We believe in a transformative approach that places students at the center of their learning journey. Our Competency-Based Learning approach is designed to nurture curiosity, foster resilience, advance agency, and build a lifelong love of learning.
Competency-based learning is a personalized approach that focuses on students' mastery of skills and knowledge in and out of the classroom. This method ensures that learners are in the driver’s seat by allowing learners to progress at their own pace, ensuring they fully understand and can apply what they've learned before moving forward.
Join TCC’s Competency-Based Learning Cadre! We believe in a transformative approach that places students at the center of their learning journey. Our Competency-Based Learning approach is designed to nurture curiosity, foster resilience, advance agency, and build a lifelong love of learning.
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How Does Competency-Based Learning Work?
How Does Competency-Based Learning Work?
Clear Competencies and Outcomes: Defined learning goals and outcomes provide transparency and clarity for students, parents, and educators.
Clear Competencies and Outcomes: Defined learning goals and outcomes provide transparency and clarity for students, parents, and educators.
Ongoing Assessment and Feedback: Continuous assessment and constructive feedback help students stay on track and make informed decisions about their learning.
Ongoing Assessment and Feedback: Continuous assessment and constructive feedback help students stay on track and make informed decisions about their learning.
Competency-Based Grading: Competency-based reporting-grading focuses on assessing students' mastery of specific skills and knowledge, ensuring that each learner achieves mastery before progressing to the next competency.
Competency-Based Grading: Competency-based reporting-grading focuses on assessing students' mastery of specific skills and knowledge, ensuring that each learner achieves mastery before progressing to the next competency.
Dispositional Learning: Essential mindsets like curiosity, patience, perseverance, empathy and self-motivation are crucial for learning transfer.
Dispositional Learning: Essential mindsets like curiosity, patience, perseverance, empathy and self-motivation are crucial for learning transfer.
Culturally Responsive-Sustaining: Competency-based learning is culturally responsive because it recognizes and values diverse cultural backgrounds and experiences, allowing students to demonstrate their knowledge and skills in ways that are meaningful and relevant to their own lives.
Real World Learning: Competency-based learning bridges the gap between education and real-world application by emphasizing the development of practical skills and knowledge that students can directly apply in real-life scenarios, enhancing their readiness for college, career, and everyday challenges.
Technology Integration: Innovative tools and resources enhance the learning experience, providing interactive and engaging ways to demonstrate competence through deliberate practice.
Culturally Responsive-Sustaining: Competency-based learning is culturally responsive because it recognizes and values diverse cultural backgrounds and experiences, allowing students to demonstrate their knowledge and skills in ways that are meaningful and relevant to their own lives.
Real World Learning: Competency-based learning bridges the gap between education and real-world application by emphasizing the development of practical skills and knowledge that students can directly apply in real-life scenarios, enhancing their readiness for college, career, and everyday challenges.
Technology Integration: Innovative tools and resources enhance the learning experience, providing interactive and engaging ways to demonstrate competence through deliberate practice.
4 Tenets of Student-Centered Learning
The 4 Tenets of Student-Centered Learning
Learning is competency-based: Students progress based on their competency.
Students take ownership over their learning: Students are given the agency to choose what they want to learn, how they want to learn it, and when and where they want to learn it.
Learning is personalized: Learning experiences are tailored to the individual needs of students.
Learning happens anytime, anywhere: Learning can take place outside of the classroom, such as in the library or on the playground.
Learning is competency-based: Students progress based on their competency.
Students take ownership over their learning: Students are given the agency to choose what they want to learn, how they want to learn it, and when and where they want to learn it.
Learning is personalized: Learning experiences are tailored to the individual needs of students.
Learning happens anytime, anywhere: Learning can take place outside of the classroom, such as in the library or on the playground.
Competency Based Learning in Action
Leveraging Learning Progressions at PS 5
Goal Setting at LTHS
Student Reflection at Petrides
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