Competency: Foster Student-Led Learning

CBL: From Educator-Designed to Co-Designed

CBL: From Educator-Designed to Co-Designed is a self-paced course that supports teachers in rethinking their role as a classroom leader and content expert and making shifts to adopt the stance of a coach and facilitator. One of the goals of competency-based learning is to support student agency. Making the shift from educator-designed to co-designed experiences is integral to creating a culturally responsive learning environment that empowers our students to become purposeful, self-directed learners. This is the fifth in a series of five courses about practical and purposeful shifts that educators can make in their classrooms. This course is self-paced and open for one year to participate.

CBL: From Grading to Feedback

CBL: From Grading to Feedback is a self-paced course which will explore key elements of feedback that drive student learning. Feedback is foundational to a CBL approach: students must receive specific, actionable feedback aligned to competencies and learning outcomes throughout their learning processes. In this course, we will explore key elements of feedback that drive student learning, taking into consideration that when we live and teach in a grades-based system — as many of us do — we want to ensure that our grading practices align with and prioritize good and equitable feedback practices too. This course is self-paced and open for one year to participate.

Redesign: Portfolios

How might we redesign portfolios in a way that empowers students to develop ownership over their own learning and to prioritize learning processes? In this short experience, you’ll shift portfolios from a teacher-directed collection of summative, product-based assessments to a student-led curation of artifacts of learning-in-progress. Designed to move you from understanding to action in just a few hours, this self-paced, fully asynchronous course provides highly curated resources, examples, and action steps for redesigning how you create and use portfolios. You’ll leave with a framework for designing a student-led process portfolio that provides students with choice and voice in how they show and share their learning. This course is self-paced and open for one year to participate.