Competency-based learning is not about learning skills instead of content; it’s about learning critical skills that empower learners to seek out and engage with content more deeply, meaningfully, and productively.
What are key shifts in Personalized Learning?
Inquiry-Based Learning Experiences
Explicit Skill and Strategy Instruction
Expanded Discussion
Regular Conferencing
Formative Assessment
Flexible Grouping and Environments
Mindset Shift
Delivery of Knowledge ---> Authentic Academic Experiences
Inquiry is at the heart of powerful academic endeavors. Wondering about something, researching it, developing a point of view, making a case: this is what academic and professional work is all about. Inquiry prioritizes student questions and ideas, which supports their sense of efficacy, their capacity, and their understanding of themselves as agents of their own learning.
How are we doing with Inquiry-Based Learning?
TEACHERS: Inquiry-Based learning experiences, built with thoughtfully chosen resources and driven by student inquiry, create personal pathways toward competency.
LEARNERS: Learners are regularly engaged in inquiry, posing questions, investigating answers and solutions, and sharing their results, while simultaneously and continuously synthesizing and reflecting to build schema.