Cool Cat Teacher

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Mastery learning (also called competency-based learning) is being used in some classes and schools. Jon Bergmann, author of the Mastery Learning Handbook talks about how he uses mastery learning in his chemistry and physics classrooms. 28 years teaching, Jon, that is so awesome.

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ED Surge

MARCH 28, 2022

Schools are confronting vast achievement gaps among students and an exhausted teaching force. Some say it’s time to finally commit to scalable personalized learning. So many bright educators love teaching and love kids, but they're physically and emotionally exhausted.

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STEM Discovery Education

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Keep reading for highlights of our key sessions , which led to open, honest conversations on topics like equity in education, funding, and competency-based learning systems. Marzano noted, competency-based learning systems “can be quite the paradigm shift, but we’re standing at the cusp of real change.”

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

At the University of Central Oklahoma, the Student Transformative Learning Record (STLR) serves as a second transcript that, like UGA’s CLR, helps students track growth in core areas that resonate with employers and graduate schools.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 19, 2023

He plans to focus on a new effort at Southern New Hampshire to explore how to reshape college teaching through the use of new generative AI tools like ChatGPT. SNHU had these satellite sites on Navy bases. Navy, and you would have adjunct faculty who would drive to the base and they get their pass and they go in and they teach classes.

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STEM Discovery Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

This framework, based on 40 years of educational research, defines five progressive levels of performance that a school must master to become a high reliability school—where all students learn the content and skills they need for success in college, careers, and beyond. If so, is your current structure designed for that?”

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ED Surge

APRIL 18, 2023

For more than 100 years, high schools and colleges have relied on the same stalwart tool to measure teaching and learning: the clock. Now, the institution that developed the time-based standard more than a century ago that is used throughout education is calling for the creation of a different way to quantify academic progress.

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