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A Close Look at Competency-Based Learning

Cult of Pedagogy

My goal here is to inspire all teachers regardless of your setting to think about how this kind of teaching might be possible in your classroom. Example 1: A Classroom in a Competency-Based School One unit Messer teaches is a 9-week seminar called Global Zoo. Then they bring their research together.

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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

Lawrence Seaway and Power Project” that I had joined with an environmental historian to teach. During the second semester of the program, each student takes a seminar structured around a major research project, sometimes with one of the same professors, sometimes not. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

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