{"id":4570,"date":"2017-08-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/blog\/cw_post\/reflecting-on-the-field-of-competency-education-part-1\/"},"modified":"2020-02-05T13:03:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T18:03:00","slug":"reflecting-on-the-field-of-competency-education-part-1","status":"publish","type":"cw_post","link":"https:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/cw_post\/reflecting-on-the-field-of-competency-education-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflecting on The Field of Competency Education: Where We Started and Where We Are Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Every summer, the CompetencyWorks team and our advisors reflect on the progress that is being made and the emerging issues that we see developing. This helps us know where to focus our attention in our daily work, and it is a leadership opportunity for all of us to hear from others from around the country and different perspectives about how competency education is advancing.<\/p>\n

This article highlights some of the areas of our reflection and will accompany today\u2019s webinar Competency Education: A Reflection on the Field and Future Directions<\/a>. <\/em>For those of you completely new to competency education, you might want to glance at What is Competency Education<\/a>? as a starting point.<\/p>\n

Where We Started and Where We Are Now<\/strong><\/p>\n

There are different starting points for how we tell the story of where we started. Several valuable reports provide slightly different starting points and critical stepping stones, although almost everyone will recognize Benjamin Bloom\u2019s contribution. It would actually be an interesting project to talk to leading innovators and find out the key advances in education they are building upon. For those of you interested, I suggest the following reports to learn more about the foundation for competency-based education:<\/p>\n