Today, Juana Arias-Dominguez, an AP Spanish teacher at Union City High School in New Jersey, shares how to develop oral competency in students learning a language. As a past program leader for the ...

The traditional approach to formal education ties students to classrooms. Degrees are earned based on accumulated credits, a system developed in 1906 as an attempt to measure how much time a student ...

The Ethiopian Journal of Education, Vol. 22, No. 1 (June 2002), pp. 85-109 (25 pages) This study endeavored to explore the competency beliefs, teaching confidence in teaching practice, and teaching ...

Language programs in the 21 st century must help students gain the language and literacy proficiency they will need to succeed in the real world. This means that relying only on traditional ways of ...

Sean Ryan, President of McGraw Hill School Group, breaks down the elements of Competency-Based Education (CBE) in education and how its implementation can transform teaching and learning. CBE ...

Advocates for competency-based learning, and for new approaches to teacher education, can chalk up another victory: the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education approved the Woodrow Wilson Academy of ...

Many instructors begin the course-development process by asking themselves what they want students to have learned when the semester ends. Nina Morel, dean and professor of professional studies at ...

My college roommate Chris was notorious for a few things. Chris looked vaguely Nordic and enjoyed putting on a Viking helmet, taking off all his clothes, and venturing out to Cross Campus Lawn to ask ...