By the Author of WANTED: Eight Critical Skills You Need To Succeed!
Competency-Based Learning transitions students away from seat time in favor of a structure that creates flexibility, allowing them to progress as they demonstrate mastery of academic content, regardless of time, place, or pace of learning. Competency-based strategies provide flexibility in the way that credit can be earned or awarded, and provide students with personalized learning […]
Read More…This is worth a read . . . . and some thought. Has your mind been hijacked by your political convictions, i.e., you’re prone to rationalization, or do you fail to exercise your critical faculties, i.e., are you mentally lazy? Or is it something else?? Think about it! Gordon Pennycook and David Rand penned an interesting article in the New York Times. You can read the article by clicking HERE.
Read More…In this episode, Charlie Jett discusses Field Studies in depth. Field Studies were highlighted by the Secretary’s Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS) report, “Teaching the SCANS Competencies” as an effective means of teaching the Critical skills. Field Studies are conducted by a team of students and focus on issues identified by local area businesses […]
Read More…Authentic Assessment is hard to do – but it’s the way assessment of skills SHOULD be done! Authentic assessment refers to assessment tasks that resemble reading and writing in the real world and in school (Hiebert, Valencia & Afflerbach, 1994; Wiggins, 1993). Its aim is to assess many different kinds of literacy abilities in contexts […]
Read More…Stephane Kasriel, Upwork CEO, pens a nice commentary about a recent survey, ‘Freelancing in America.’ You can read the article by clicking HERE. The results of the survey aren’t surprising. According to the survey Freelancing in America 2018, released Wednesday, freelancers put more value on skills training: 93 percent of freelancers with a four-year college degree […]
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