Instructional Strategies and Tactics. Teaching Strategies for Indirect Instruction. Learning Theory - What are the established learning theories? Learning Theory - What are the established learning theories? Technology Integration Matrix. A Vision of Students Today. A Must See Chart on SAMR Model and iPad Teaching. Going All In: How to Make Competency-Based Learning Work. Getty Images New Hampshire is the first state to change its education policies to credit high school students — and soon elementary and middle school students, too — for progressing based on what they’ve mastered, not the number of hours they spend in school. Known as a competency-based system, the idea is to define the core skills and concepts students should master and only move them forward once they’ve achieved mastery of every competency rather than their “seat time.”
In traditional schools, students progress if their average grade is high enough, which may leave room for holes in their understanding of concepts they’ll need in future classes. In the most alternative application of a competency-based system, age-based grade levels would disappear and students would move through concepts at their own pace, regardless of age or grade. “What we saw really lacking was the core concept that students would be advancing upon mastery,” Freeland said.