
Deeper Learning Pathway: Curriculum & Instruction
Monthly Learning: Surface, Deep, Transfer: Redefining Rigor to move towards Competency Based Learning
Intended Audience: Leaders of SRSN Districts and State and Regional Organizations, Principals, Instructional Coaches, Teachers
Description: This session provides an overview of the rigorous learning that underscores a Competency Based System. It provides an overview of learning complexity, the core instructional, assessment, and learning habits that are required to meet rigorous learning expectations, as well as the learner qualities or dispositions that enable students to leverage competency based education to be assessment capable learners. In addition, this session provides an overview of the organizational leadership that is necessary to engage and sustain a competency based learning approach in their schools and systems. MO Framework CBL Elements to be discussed:
1. 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.
4. Students progress based on evidence of mastery, not seat time.
5. Students learn actively using different pathways and varied pacing.
7. Rigorous, common expectations for learning (knowledge, skills, and dispositions) are explicit, transparent, measurable, and transferable.
8.Students engage in Real World Learning experiences that support high school, college, career and workplace readiness.
Session 1: Building and Sustaining Professional Learning within Competency Based Learning
Intended Audience: Leaders of SRSN Districts and State and Regional Organizations, Principals, Instructional Coaches, Teachers
Description: This session illustrates concrete actions system and site leaders can ensure that the professional learning programs and practices meet the change management needs of a competency based learning approach. MO Framework CBL Elements to be discussed:
2. Assessment is a meaningful, positive, and empowering learning experience for students that yields timely, relevant, and actionable evidence.
3.Students receive timely, differentiated support based on their individual learning needs.
4. Students progress based on evidence of mastery, not seat time.
5. Students learn actively using different pathways and varied pacing.
8. Students engage in Real World Learning experiences that support high school, college, career and workplace readiness.
Session 2: Structuring Competency Based Systems
Intended Audience: Leaders of SRSN Districts and State and Regional Organizations, Principals, Instructional Coaches, Teachers
Description: This session provides an overview of recommended steps to ensure the right structures are in place to ensure a competency based learning approach can flourish within and across district contexts. MO Framework CBL Elements to be discussed:
5. Students learn actively using different pathways and varied pacing.
6. Strategies to ensure equity for all students are embedded in the culture, structure, and pedagogy of schools and education systems.
7. Rigorous, common expectations for learning (knowledge, skills, and dispositions) are explicit, transparent, measurable, and transferable.
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