7. Competency-Based Learning
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English - July 04, 2019 04:07 - 26 minutes - 24.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsCourses Education Kids & Family Parenting blendedlearning christenseninstitute classroom digitallearning k12 onlinelearning parenting personalizedlearning studentcenteredlearning teachers Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Time. It's so valuable. Often we feel we don't have enough of it. How can schools make the most of their learners' time? This podcast focuses on competency-based learning, an idea whose time has come.
In a competency-based system, learners move from one level to the next based on their own choices and timing, not based on the school calendar. Over 360 studies show that competency-based learning significantly helps children.
To understand the idea, Heather takes you on a journey through five time periods in education:
1776 - Education in colonial America 1837 - Horace Mann and the Prussian system 1913 - Henry Ford and Industrial America 1984 - Benjamin Bloom's research on mastery learning 2020 - What the future can beLooking to the past, you'll get an overview of why schools operate as they do today and hopefully some new ideas for how to make them even better for tomorrow.