Competencies
A real life example of a person demonstrating Competency-Based learning and growth over time.
The 3 Graphs of Mastery Learning
Have you experienced this in your life?
Do you want your children to master their passions, skills, and abilities?
Do you want them to be able to tackle the challenges of life after secondary education?
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Definition of competency-based learning?
Students are empowered daily to make important decisions about their learning experiences, how they will create and apply knowledge, and how they will demonstrate their learning.
Assessment is a meaningful, positive, and empowering learning experience for students that yields timely, relevant, and actionable evidence.
Students receive timely, differentiated support based on their individual learning needs.
Students progress based on evidence of mastery, not seat time.
Students learn actively using different pathways and varied pacing.
Strategies to ensure equity for all students are embedded in the culture, structure, and pedagogy of schools and education systems.
Rigorous, common expectations for learning (knowledge, skills, and dispositions) are explicit, transparent, measurable, and transferable.
Source: Aurora Institute
Competencies at LLA
Subject Areas
These are the categories of classes and subjects at Liberty Launch Academy.
Competencies within each of the subject areas
These are the competencies within each of the categories above. Your children will be given opportunities to master each one of these competencies. We will teach and assess these with flexible content and assessments.
Over the lifespan of an enrolled student at LLA, we will be able to track a student's mastery of these competencies and show the growth progression of each child.
Skills within each Competency
Reading Critically
Choose and apply reading strategies
Evaluate the main ideas or themes
Analyze context, point of view, and purpose
Analyze craft
Expressing Ideas
Identify a core message and audience
Develop and organize the message
Prepare the medium
Finalize, practice and/or prepare
Engage and respond
Writing Evidence-based Arguments
Introduce claims
Use evidence to develop claims and counterclaims
Use words and transitions to create cohesion
Use a formal style, objective tone, and advanced vocabulary
Provide a compelling conclusion
Strengthen writing through revision
Writing Informational Texts
Introduce the topic
Develop the main idea with key points
Use words and transitions to create cohesion
Use a formal style, objective tone, and advanced vocabulary
Provide a compelling conclusion
Strengthen writing through revision
Writing Narrative Texts
Engage and orient the reader in the opening
Develop the story and characters
Use words and phrases, details, and sensory language
Use words and transitions to create cohesion
Provide a compelling conclusion
Strengthen writing through revision
Evidence-based Discussion
Demonstrate preparedness and responsibility
Engage in academic discussion with others
Pose and respond to questions
Conducting Research
Construct a research question
Identify and select credible, diverse sources to gather evidence
Use systems to organize information gathered
Synthesize multiple sources
Apply Knowledge of Health Concepts
Analyze the four dimensions of health
Explain causes of health problems and solutions for prevention and reduction
Analyze key factors that impact health
Analyze developmental stages of life
Analyze Health Promotion and Risk Reduction
Evaluate health information, products, and services
Demonstrate healthy practices and behaviors
Demonstrate health risk reduction practices and behaviors
Evaluate the impact of cultural norms, public policy, and government regulation impact health
Evaluate the impact of technology on health
Engage in Health Advocacy
Demonstrate effective communication skills to promote health
Influence and support others in healthy decision-making
Enhance personal health through positive decision-making
Develop and analyze a personal health plan
Effective Effort
Take on challenges
Learn from mistakes
Accept feedback and criticism
Practice and apply strategies
Persevere
Ask Questions
Take Risks
Responsible Decision-making
Identify the decision
Choose and apply decision making process
Take responsibility and determine consequences
Communicate my decision
Social Awareness and Healthy Relationships
Recognize feelings and perspectives of others
Communicate effectively with others
Manage conflicts
Use strategies to resolve conflicts
Practice compassion towards others
Evaluate the impact of technology
Self-Awareness and Self-Management
Recognize my feelings and boundaries
Manage my emotions
Identify and use self-management strategies
Advocate for myself
Practice positivity and gratitude
Self-Reflect
Manage time on technology
Lead Scientific Investigations
Ask a scientific question
Formulate a hypothesis
Define and analyze variables
Plan and organize an investigation
Organize & strengthen plan
Carry out the experiment
Iterate using results
Analyze and Interpret Data
Make meaning of data collected
Represent data
Develop and Use Models
Create a model to represent a system
Use the model to communicate ideas
Evaluate and refine models
Create Visual Art
Generate ideas for a visual art project
Organize and develop a project plan
Demonstrate understanding of the responsibilities that come with the freedom to create
Refine and improve the work
Present Visual Art
Analyze, interpret, and select artistic work for presentation
Use artistic techniques to present artwork effectively
Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work
Personal Work Habits
Manage tasks and deadlines
Organized and prepared
Staying focused and on task
Improve my work
Independent Learning
Monitor and manage my learning
Set goals and create action plans
Building Networks
Build Relationships
Seek support and resources
Nuture and sustain relationships
Create and maintain a positive digital/online footprint
Lead like a Champion
Build a shared purpose and clarity
Mobilize the team to work effectively
Manage challenging issues
Reflect and Debrief
Reflect on process / work
Reflect on decision
Mathematical Problem Solving
Gather and organize information
Analyzing and interpreting data
Model and represent mathematical information
Choose and apply strategies
Test possible solutions
Construct explanations
Make meaning of data collected
Mathematical Argumentation
State and defend my solution
Critique mathematical reasoning
Using Math Modeling to Solve Problems
Gather and organize information
Model the problem
Generate, interpret, and evaluate results
Communicate and defend my solution
Reflect on my process and solution
Project Quality
Create a project plan
Create a high quality project
Solve a real-world problem
Use technology
Presentation
Introduce presentation
Present findings and supporting evidence
Customize the presentation for the specific purpose, context, and audience
Use presentation aids
Use language and body movement effectively
Give an effective conclusion
Collaboration
Interact and participate effectively with others
Complete my part of the work
Manage and resolve conflicts
Written Communication in the Workplace
Clear Purpose, Topic, and Background Information
Structure
Context, Format and Audience
Quality
Design
Define a design problem or challenge
Research the problem
Generate and validate ideas
Build a prototype or model
Test and iterate
Financial Literacy
Practice short-term and long-term personal budgeting
Navigate financial tools, opportunities, and practices
Demonstrate effective decision-making involving risk and reward
Analyze Physical Fitness Activities and Outcomes
Use fitness data to establish personal health goals
Develop and implement a fitness plan
Track and analyze progress toward fitness goals
Demonstrate Personal and Social Skills
Demonstrate collaboration skills during physical activities
Demonstrate responsible behavior during physical activities
Evaluate impacts on safety during physical activities
Advance Health and Movement Performance
Improve movement performance
Develop and strengthen motor skills
Apply knowledge of the impacts of exercise
Analyzing Events
Evaluate context and causes
Analyze intended and unintended outcomes
Analyze outcomes as either change, continuity, or both
Analyzing People and Perspectives
Analyze historical sources
Analyze multiple perspectives
Evaluate the importance of people's actions in shaping outcomes
Making an Impact
Examine Enduring Problems
Build Civic Knowledge
Take Action
Analyzing Geographic Representations
and Human-Environmental Interactions
Display and explain spatial patterns
Apply geographic tools
Analyze relationships between human and environmental systems
Evaluate the impacts of human activity on environmental systems
Communicate in Languages Other Than English
Engage in Conversations
Present to an Audience of Listeners and Viewers
Present to an Audience of Readers and Viewers
Interpret Spoken Language
Interpret Written Language
Develop Insight into the Nature of Language and Culture
Compare the Language Studied and Your Own
Compare the Culture Studied and Your Own
Data Sharing with Students and Parents
The image below shows a myriad of data for achievement and growth. This data can be impactful if also used at home.
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