Fearless Teachers

Category: competency-based education

  • Motivation Without Grades

    Motivation Without Grades

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    Gabrielle
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    The second misconception that caught my eye in the opinion piece entitled Proficiency-based Overreach by Curtis Hier (the same one I referenced in this previous post) from The Burlington Free Press is that students will no longer be motivated in a proficiency-based system because there won’t be traditional grading. The first assumption that is problematic…

  • Competency-Based Education Is Not About Grading

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    Gabrielle
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    I recently read an opinion piece in The Burlington Free Press that was fraught with misconceptions and inaccuracies about proficiency-based (competency-based) education. I think I’ll take them one at a time over several blog posts. In the first sentence of the opinion piece, Curtis Hier states “The Vermont Agency of Education is pushing a practice…