{"id":1371,"date":"2018-02-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/blog\/what-do-teachers-need-to-know-and-be-able-to-do-to-succeed-in-personalized-competency-based-learning-environments\/"},"modified":"2022-11-04T16:46:15","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T20:46:15","slug":"what-do-teachers-need-to-know-and-be-able-to-do-to-succeed-in-personalized-competency-based-learning-environments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/blog\/what-do-teachers-need-to-know-and-be-able-to-do-to-succeed-in-personalized-competency-based-learning-environments\/","title":{"rendered":"What Do Teachers Need to Know and Be Able to Do to Succeed in Personalized, Competency-Based Learning Environments?"},"content":{"rendered":"
The previous blog post, Five State Policy Action Steps to Modernize Educator Preparation and Development Systems<\/em><\/a>, explored the need to transform educator preparation and development systems to build educator capacity to transform the K-12 education system to student-centered learning. <\/span><\/p>\n This blog post will highlight and explain the first of four essential strategies for states and school districts to transform educator workforce systems: Identifying clear, specific educator competencies needed for student-centered learning models.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n A competency-based system of educator preparation and development would provide a seamless continuum in which aspiring educators:<\/span><\/p>\n States could build coherent and aligned systems around what educators need to know and be able to do to succeed in student-centered learning environments. Clear, specific educator competencies, developed collaboratively with education stakeholders, can be a powerful tool to drive coherence in pre-service training, credentialing requirements, recruitment, induction, professional development, evaluation and career pathways along a continuum of professional growth.<\/span><\/p>\n One example of an effort to define <\/span>educator competencies<\/span><\/a> for student-centered learning was led by the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) and Jobs for the Future (JFF). These educator competencies are based on four domains, as depicted in the following graphic:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n These competencies represent some of the knowledge, habits, mindsets, and skills educators need to possess in order to foster personalized, competency-based learning.<\/span><\/p>\n The instructional competencies CCSSO and JFF highlight include:<\/span><\/p>\n Examples of competencies from the other three domains (cognitive, intrapersonal and interpersonal), include:<\/span><\/p>\n Additionally, Margaret Heritage outlines some of the knowledge and skills teachers need for effective formative assessment\u00a0\u2014 an important tool to determine where students are in their learning and how to help them progress \u2014 in her research, \u201c<\/span>Formative Assessment: What Do Teachers Need to Know and Do?<\/span><\/a>\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n These include:<\/span><\/p>\n Heritage continues, \u201cTeachers need the skills to translate their interpretations of the assessment results into instructional actions that are matched to the learning needs of their students. This involves selecting the learning experiences that will place appropriate demands on the student and ordering these experiences so that each successive element leads the student toward realizing the desired outcome.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Today, in our current educator preparation and development systems, few are focusing on the core skill of assessment literacy. Thus, few American educators are prepared to apply the knowledge and skills needed for effective implementation of performance tasks and assessments for learning. Heritage states, \u201cIf formative assessment is to be an integral part of professional practice, there needs to be a major investment made in teachers. This investment must begin with changes in preservice training. No teacher should exit a professional training program without the knowledge to assess student learning.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n These are only a few of the skills and competencies educators need to successfully implement future education systems designed with equity in mind. State policymakers could host a task force or commission to collaborate with educators, school and local leaders, institutions of higher education and experts in the field of competency-based education to identify educator competencies for student-centered learning to drive coherence and alignment in their state\u2019s educator preparation and development systems. Designating an appropriate group of educators to identify the educator competencies needed for modern learning environments is crucial and an important first step. <\/span><\/p>\n The next blog post in this series will highlight and explain three additional, critical strategies for states and school districts to transform educator workforce systems:<\/span><\/p>\n This is the twelfth <\/span>article in the <\/span>Current to Future State<\/span><\/i> series <\/span>that explores the ideas in the iNACOL report titled: <\/span>Current to Future State: Issues and Action Steps for State Policy to Support Personalized, Competency-Based Learning<\/a>. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n The previous blog post, Five State Policy Action Steps to Modernize Educator Preparation and Development Systems, explored…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"issue":[377,392],"location":[],"class_list":["post-1371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","issue-state-policy","issue-develop-educator-capacity"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nIdentifying Clear, Specific Educator Competencies for Personalized, Competency-Based Learning Environments<\/h3>\n
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