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A Close Look at Competency-Based Learning

Cult of Pedagogy

Example 1: A Classroom in a Competency-Based School One unit Messer teaches is a 9-week seminar called Global Zoo. It’s framed around this driving question: How are humans impacting the Earth from an environmental biology perspective? “And then additionally, they’re building their research skills.

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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

Everywhere we looked, we saw questions of values: The wisdom of environmental engineering toward human wants, the need for electrical power in a northern climate, the mutual desires of each country. My students were starting to figure things out, using their critical thinking skills. This process begins in our first-year programs.

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