…solid guidelines around proficiencies. The journey began in community living rooms This school has a special relationship with its community. Through the school, students and families can access some level…
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…growth mindset and deep learning. Let’s look at each element in turn. 1. Focus on a few proficiencies only Grace starts by planning the proficiencies she’s going to tackle during…
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…with your teaching team or administrators, how can you see proficiencies finding a way to capture out-of-school learning that encompasses real world skills? Read more about knitting and algebra For…
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…example, Sam and his colleagues derive all of their target proficiencies from the cross-curricular Vermont Transferable Skills.) Perhaps even more crucial is how the proficiencies are addressed. This is where…
Read more…have identified and prioritized the standards and proficiencies that guide my instruction. I develop learning goals connected to proficiencies, standards, and performance indicators I develop learning goals that Are derived…
Read more3 ways Schoology supports sustainable Proficiency-Based Learning A learning management system (LMS) can be used to manage classroom workflow, create self-paced differentiated units, and collaborate within or across classrooms and…
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…that we use to get to more transferable skills level proficiencies rather than just content level proficiencies.” Listening to Principal Young, it’s obvious that he has an innovator’s mindset with…
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…by starting with educator proficiencies. Proficiencies help you build your own skillsets. Educator proficiencies for remote & hybrid teaching practices Here’s what they all look like as a rubric: Proficiency…
Read more…district is working with for proficiencies, in the form of a Google site: How is your school grappling with proficiencies? What are some of the challenges that have come up?…
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…School. For her, this project was a great fit for the engineering and physics proficiencies she teaches to 8th graders. Rose Scavotto has been working on more project-based learning units…
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…(I am doing some air quotes here) need to teach, right? Like whether you think of that as covering content or staying on course, with proficiencies and curriculum? How do…
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…with schedule/assessment/instruction changes to meet proficiencies. Unlimited retakes for assignments below the 80% standard “At the school, you pass with a sixty,” explains educator Sarah Wright. “But that’s not enough….
Read more…Proficiency-Based Learning to clarify any misunderstandings, unpack assumptions, and be certain all included in this work share a common understanding. Helpful in looking for common ground to start from! Proficiencies…
Read more…teacher at Crossett Brook Middle School in Waterbury, Vermont, is revising her units one by one. She does so every year, but this year she is looking specifically at proficiencies…
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…proficiencies in whatever they choose to study. Between the two systems — flexible pathways and proficiency-based learning — students negotiate a curriculum that keeps them engaged and satisfies their curiosity…
Read more…Extreme explains the shift in assessment practices taking place this year. Think Three Pillars. Think transferable skills, think mastery tracking of proficiencies, think student self-assessment, think the power of data…
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…proficiencies, the how and what parts can be led by students. Check out this newly created PBL continuum and ponder, how can I move toward more the student centered end…
Read more…all the teachers who worked with their students. And they wanted all students to access the curriculum at the ambitious levels of their district’s cross-curricular proficiencies. Based on their priorities,…
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…teach specific proficiencies or standards or transferable skills through that process. Jeanie: I have real, genuine curiosity about this as I work with schools. Sometimes I hear teachers who want…
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…we’re seeing how proficiencies work naturally in the classroom? And fit so many of the good practices that teachers have? Just like you were saying, students may say that they…
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…to the curriculum, tying it to standards and proficiencies. So, she gives us these four curricular elements of local learning, and she talks about how the boundaries of these are…
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…them in learning in real-world ways. And students can demonstrate proficiencies in learning, instead of the traditional grading scale. How does this relate to climate change? Deanna: The personalized learning…
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…Stan Williams and Emily Rinkema co-authored a new book on proficiencies, titled The Standards-Based Classroom: Make Learning the Goal. They’re also the facilitators of the Think Tank course at CVU…
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…Uncover what scaffolds are needed What will students create as an end product? What knowledge, skills, proficiencies will students meet? For literacy, these proficiencies have already been identified. What else?…
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…Goal, and have been working on implementing and assessing proficiencies at Champlain Valley Union High School, in Hinesburg Vermont. Proficiency-based education is something of a hot topic in Vermont. In…
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…legislatively on Standards Based Grading. “For schools where there was a big pushback on proficiencies, we found that letter grades were the thing that broke it. Some schools changed practices…
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…the student do? And what’s their next step for learning? Kathleen: To me, that goes back to this idea of, if your proficiencies themselves are not based in equitable thinking,…
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…reading and there are real positives. And one of the positives for me is that Dueck breaks down how we can take standards or proficiencies and break them into learning…
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…to be vibrant and emergent in a way that would be impossible to completely preplan. With this in mind, the team decided to use Transferable Skills (cross curricular proficiencies) to…
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…interesting, because if you go down to where they talk about reading proficiencies. I don’t even care about change over time right now. I want to talk about” Reading Achievement”…
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…students to plan and execute a bike trip from the Canadian border to the southern edge of Vermont. Along the way, students would meet Vermont educational proficiencies focusing on local…
Read more…better yet hosting one. JITL is essential to life-long learning, particularly as graduation proficiencies emphasize collaboration, community service and engagement, and authentic problem-solving. I suspect that EdCamp, like the Middle…
Read more…personalize learning, utilize assessments, and track student progress. Schoology Enterprise offers tracking by the teacher, a powerful tool and one that shifts assessment toward being certain all students meet proficiencies….
Read more…student self-assessment of proficiencies earned both in and out of the school walls. Where is the PD? My current lens: I look at each section and think how to structure…
Read more…evidence of proficiencies, and share reflections upon learning. Parents can keep their eyes on the big picture and look for noticeable areas of growth or improvement. Schedule a follow-up At…
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…around SMART goals and proficiencies, and this will be the journey we continue on for the rest of the school year. Anybody else who’s been wrestling with the same questions…
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…to their programs, and to collaboratively identify proficiencies addressed by their programming. For institutions that do not function within the Vermont educational discourse context, and especially those institutions without a…
Read more…unit? And now, these are some screenshots Abby’s been kind enough to share with us from her PLP. It’s set up with a space to demonstrate Vermont proficiencies, but also…
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…which is just like a very starting thing. But this year for like, since Roundtables are bigger, this year throughout the year we’ve had a thing to add proficiencies, in…
Read more…using proficiencies: What I most appreciate about the EL Education approach is that they situate student-led conferences as a form of student-engaged assessment. If we focus on the student-led…
Read more…Emory from Stowe Middle School and Ryan Farran from Lamoille Union Middle School presented their approaches to increasing personalization through proficiencies and pacing in their respective math classrooms at Dynamic…
Read more…McReynolds assess student proficiency, it also provides students with timely, detailed, ubiquitous guidelines around those proficiencies. Shifts in teaching & learning Several shifts in the teaching and learning partnership have…
Read moreLessons learned from a film festival Every year, I watch in awe as students take ownership of their films and are challenged to exercise new skills and proficiencies: self direction,…
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…What could they build? Models of buildings! Lego villages. Robotic hands. Consider the math proficiencies you are after– and then use inquiry and a driving question to launch kids into…
Read more…Middle School sharing their PLPs, and how proficiencies intersect: https://twitter.com/hennesss/status/867019058662842368 And so many more. A huge THANK YOU to those students! Plus: Student instructors https://twitter.com/dsmacdonald/status/867027820018634754 As usual, the Dynamic Landscapes…
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…and thematic. Let the content happen organically in the project, with some defined proficiencies in mind. Grab coffee with another teacher on your team. Do they see a place their…
Read more…learning opportunities, including academic and experiential components, which build and assess attainment of identified proficiencies and lead to secondary school completion, civic engagement, and postsecondary readiness. Flexible pathways allow students…
Read more…way, everyone involved understood the goals and could set their sights on proficiencies. And because of this, everyone attending the Exhibition night had the opportunity to provide feedback on these…
Read more…settings that are becoming increasingly personalized? How is personalized learning similar to, yet distinct from, differentiated instruction? How do proficiencies, personal learning plans, and flexible pathways contribute to getting…
Read more…you continue to grow. We ask our students to meet proficiencies, track growth over time, and reflect on artifacts and evidence of that growth. Let’s adopt the same standard of…
Read more…— as a cross-country journey: proficiencies provide clear destination targets; the Personal Learning Plan is the On-Star or Mapquest Overview; and flexible pathways become the alternate routes available. One way…
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…They are also more likely to want to show off what they have learned. A well-crafted final reflection can synthesize learning and connect it to academic objectives such as proficiencies….
Read more…homework, but think about it! The next time you talk about or work on proficiencies, ponder the following questions as they relate to your work: Are your PBGRs written will…
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…and implement proficiencies, provide flexible learning opportunities, and personalize learning for all students. In order for this to happen, teachers are learning (and unlearning!) what school can be. Three GM…
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…Teachers or students can design learning experiences, tag proficiencies, link resources, and share with team members all in one place. Cabot Leads is open on LaunchPad, meaning anyone can access…
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…learning? Ultimately, the teachers settled on using Vermont’s transferable skills, as well as several social studies proficiencies across the projects. With student projects slated for spring, teachers took the winter…
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…we know what we’re aiming for (those big ideas and enduring understandings, coupled with any standards or proficiencies being targeted), how will we know when we get there (assessments), and…
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…is becoming a little glaring. Now here we are. We talking about all these proficiencies and yet we put you in this room for 45 minutes. “These are the things…
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…learning in his guitar class as a move from the hardest class he used to teach to the easiest and most effective in helping all students meet proficiencies. These two…
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…feel real to students. Kathleen: Absolutely. It goes back to the choice and voice and allowing them to advocate for approaching the proficiencies or learning outcomes, learning targets, however, you’re…
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…combination of high-quality expanded learning opportunities, including academic and experiential components, which build and assess attainment of identified proficiencies and lead to secondary school completion, civic engagement and postsecondary readiness….
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…C3 standards and Transferable Skill proficiencies. And it connected her with resources. She could access resources from Teaching Tolerance such as this PD module on the website or a PD…
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…school day create opportunities for personalization and help students meet their graduation proficiencies?”*Alena Digen & Sarah Marcus “How can we increase student voice and extend opportunities for personalization through project-based…
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…seeing more kids meeting proficiencies because it’s content that excites them. It’s stuff that they’re already doing. I mean, how many kids are out there doing exactly what Silas is…
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