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A Close Look at Competency-Based Learning

Cult of Pedagogy

In schools that belong to the MTC, like Messer’s school, students demonstrate learning through artifacts evidence of their skills and understanding that are collected across content areas. But the means by which students actually attain and master those competencies, those skills, is through the content.”

Artifacts 172
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Defending the liberal arts: How my students took the higher-learning plunge, from the banks of the St. Lawrence

The Hechinger Report

These are questions of a sort every thinking person confronts every day. My students were starting to figure things out, using their critical thinking skills. Our first-year programs examine fundamental human questions; promote collaborative learning; and develop reading, writing, speaking and research skills.

Economics 108