This School Focuses On Teaching Students Happiness, Not Math - 0 views
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Rather than following a standard curriculum, students will decide what they want to learn themselves, and pursue learning through experience.
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The school will focus on teaching students how to learn about a subject or skill that interests them–and exposing them to a broad range of subjects–rather than imparting a particular set of information.
The Case For Competency-Based Education | Getting Smart - 0 views
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transformed schools that feature tasks and projects that challenge young people in authentic ways to build design, collaboration, and communication skills that prepare young people for navigating new and complex situations.
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Quality preparation. Much of the corporate training world has shifted from participation to demonstrated skills in order to improve job readiness.
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Equity. If gap-closing equity is a stated goal, then structures, schedules, and supports can be aimed at struggling learners that need more time and assistance to accelerate their learning
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Meet the school with no classes, no classrooms and no curriculum - 0 views
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their entire approach is centred around projects. This is a school focused on learning, not teaching.
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Our teachers work five days, four days with kids, and on the fifth day I don’t allow them to work with kids, they have to observe other teachers and give them feedback.
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And if they do that enough I say ‘get out of the school’, go to a museum, go to a laboratory, go to a business and tell us what you found there.
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Elmo, We Need to Talk - Education Reimagined - Education Reimagined - 0 views
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We can and should do more to make school more reflective of home values and more representative of a greater society in which identity and personal agency matter.
The Forest School - 1 views
Following the lessons of learning science in schools isn't convenient - The Hechinger R... - 0 views
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Following the lessons of learning science in schools isn’t convenient
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“The mind is a sheet of paper for a professor to write on.” But that’s the wrong way to think about education, he said. The right way, he argued, is to think of a human as a plant to which educators offer fertilizer and water and sunlight when it needs it, or wants it, most. “This is a very different model,” Sarma said, “but it’s so inconvenient we ignore it.”
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cognitive load theory posits that working memory is limited. Students who hear new information store it first in working memory, but this is short-term memory, and all short-term memories will be forgotten. There’s no way around it. The key, according to Sarma, is reinforcing that information and getting it into long-term memory, where it will last. Students can only focus on new information for eight to 14 minutes before their minds start to wander, Sarma said, so the best method of instruction is to offer such new information in bite-sized chunks.
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3 Principles to Follow for Competency-Based Education | GOA - 1 views
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When it comes to competency-based learning (CBL), we must tend to our school cultures as deeply and thoughtfully as we tend to our classrooms.
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Adopting CBL means more than a shift in pedagogy; it means committing to a mindset and system that prioritize learning over time, skills over content, and relevant, holistic assessment over high-stakes testing.
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To build this culture, they focus on three essential elements.
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Kids, Would You Please Start Fighting? - The New York Times - 0 views
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The skill to get hot without getting mad — to have a good argument that doesn’t become personal — is critical in life.
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Yet if kids never get exposed to disagreement, we’ll end up limiting their creativity.
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Our legal system is based on the idea that arguments are necessary for justice. For our society to remain free and open, kids need to learn the value of open disagreement.
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Equipping Young Leaders to Take on the 32 Most Important Issues of Our Time - Vander Ar... - 0 views
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If we take citizenship preparation seriously, we should be encouraging young people to engage with the world’s most important issues by helping them frame projects around these goals. Here are six reasons:
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Extended and integrated challenges are the best way to promote deeper learning and develop readiness for the automation economy. The goals include interesting and timely causes that many young people will find motivating. Making a contribution toward a goal they care about may be the best way to develop student agency. Goal focused projects get kids into the community and connected with local resources (see #PlaceBasedEd) It’s also a chance to shift the paradigm from “prepare for a career 10 years from now” to “make a difference right here, right now.” Taking on real challenges will promote creative and effective uses of technology from collaboration to production.
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Integrate projects into existing courses. The Global Goals site has useful project resources for 16 of these goals. Plan an integrated unit between two courses. Most of the goals combine science, sociology, research, problem-solving and writing. Capstone projects in the last two years of high school are a good place to start. Each academy at Reynoldsburg High School in Ohio and Chavez Schools in Washington, D.C., engage in a capstone project. Students at Singapore American School are required to conduct a capstone project.
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Want to Assess Noncognitive Competencies? Examine Student Work | GOA - 1 views
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we should deeply examine student work, and this must include robust student self-assessment.
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Unfortunately, many transcripts or report cards simply give course titles and grades. We should have transcripts and final reporting mechanisms that show the whole child, beyond their grades and their work in typical cognitive domains.
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Using noncognitive competencies as assessment tools in courses and student projects is often something that teachers don’t have much expertise in. Many teachers have been hired for their content expertise and they are much more invested in, and/or have been trained in, the assessment and reporting of cognitive competencies.
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