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Competency education, an educator-led reform, is taking root in schools and districts across the country. In some states, state leadership has cleared the path with policies to advance competency education, while others are transitioning with little or no supporting policy. At the same time, innovative school models are popping up all over the United States, … 
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Ben Kestner, Middle School Principal at St. John's International School in Belgium, shares how to personalize learning.
Kathleen McClaskey's insight:
Ben shared the curriculum that is experiential, learner-focused and based on these 7 MS competencies:
>> Self-Assessor: in health, mind, spirituality and organization >> Contributor: through empathy and understanding; making a difference to the surrounding world >> Creator: being an innovator, designer and maker of new things >> Communicator: with compassion through oral, written, visual, musical, non-verbal and dance. >> Collaborator: team member, leading and negotiating, sharing >> Explorer: showing curiosity, taking risks and experimenting >> Thinker: creative, critical, analytical, broad minded
They came up with the 3 Big Ideas last year. For one week three times during the year, there are themes where learners self-direct their learning.
Vicki Butler's comment,
May 1, 2013 12:03 PM
These competencies remind me of Gardner's 5 Minds for the Future.
Vicki Butler's curator insight,
May 1, 2013 12:04 PM
These competencies are reflective of Gardner's 5 Minds for the Future and borrowing from Kathleen McClaskey's insights: Kathleen McClaskey's insight:Ben shared the curriculum that is experiential, learner-focused and based on these 7 MS competencies:
>> Self-Assessor: in health, mind, spirituality and organization >> Contributor: through empathy and understanding; making a difference to the surrounding world >> Creator: being an innovator, designer and maker of new things >> Communicator: with compassion through oral, written, visual, musical, non-verbal and dance. >> Collaborator: team member, leading and negotiating, sharing >> Explorer: showing curiosity, taking risks and experimenting >> Thinker: creative, critical, analytical, broad minded
They came up with the 3 Big Ideas last year. For one week three times during the year, there are themes where learners self-direct their learning.
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A Competency-Based system enables students to progress through standards based on their knowledge and skills. Learning can be anytime, anywhere in learning modules.
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"On Thursday, November 3rd, 2011, members of the Metro Vancouver education community from a range of perspectives met to address the big questions around Personalised Learning. As an organization, BCASCD promotes the exemplary practices in curriculum and develops leadership and professional capacity for the success of all learners. As such, a roundtable on Personalised Learning was held. The executive invited educators from a range of districts and on various pathways of their careers in education, including student-teachers, classroom teachers, district support teachers, vice-principals, principals, district principals, post-secondary teacher-educators, and senior administrators.
Four areas around Personalised Learning were discussed, with the intent of creating a working document demonstrating what Personalised Learning may look like at a class, school, district and provincial level."
These areas were:
> Stakeholders: Who are they? What are their needs?
> Competencies/skills/knowledge: What are the ‘must-haves’? What are the ‘would-like-to-haves’?
> Assessment/Reporting: How does Personalised Learning change reporting schedules, assessments (AFL) and student engagement;
> Structures: What are the environmental/space/time requirements.
Read about what ideas emerged from this roundtable discussion as British Columbia embarks on implementing personalised learning in their province.
CompetencyWorks released a new report today: Implementing Competency Education in K-12 Systems: Insights from Local Leaders, authored by Chris Sturgis, Principal of MetisNet. This paper describes effective district implementation strategies to convert traditional, one-size-fits-all models of education into more personalized, competency-based learning environments to meet students' needs.
This paper highlights strategies to engage, motivate, and teach all students to proficiency and mastery; depicts shifts in instruction toward deeper learning and meaningful assessments for learning; while exploring models of distributed leadership and educator empowerment.