The world of education and learning is always changing and evolving! Throughout my years as an educator I have experienced many of these changes. Yet, in the position I currently hold, as in intervention teacher, I don’t see very much change anymore.
Competency-based learning and personalized learning seems to be where education is heading. It is quite different from the traditional direct teacher instruction. I am excited about the idea of students taking ownership of their learning and participating in their own improvement. As an intervention teacher, the curriculum we utilize to support our struggling readers is quite scripted and involves a great deal of direct teacher instruction as well as completely guided lessons. I feel like there is no buy-in from the students because they cannot see a clearly defined goal aside from having to improve their reading scores. I believe Educational Technology can support CBL and personalized learning a great deal. Not only can technology increase student engagement, but it can also assist teachers in being able to make learning more meaningful to students. Technology can open the doors to a completely different educational environment for students of all ages. It would be interesting to see how educational technology could be incorporated more in intervention groups in order to assist our struggling readers.
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Madeleine
1/23/2018 07:56:31 am
Hi Theresa! Its really too bad that the curriculum your using doesn't allow for competency based learning because it seems like a small group intervention class would be a great place to try this out. I wonder if you could incorporate just the goal making aspect as a way to increase their engagement with the material. I have found that students are more motivated just by a better understanding of standards, and what they are expected to learn in a certain amount of time.
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Mayra Cindy De la Torre
1/23/2018 08:43:38 am
I completely agree, we don't have the "time" to do more CBL. However, with the GLAD training we are doing I believe it will be a huge step forward to starting CBL. Education has changed so much over the years and now with technology as a big part students can achieve so much more.
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Scott Marsden
1/23/2018 05:33:22 pm
Teresa,
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