Personalized Competency-Based Education
Students learn at different paces, need different supports, and have different life goals. Personalized competency-based education approaches help educators to tailor teaching and learning in ways that maximize students’ strengths and engage their interests. Such approaches also help cultivate student agency and allow students the time and supports they need to master high standards. Just as each student will create an individualized learning pathway within a personalized competency-based model, each system that seeks to create an approach that works for its students will have many questions to answer, and each decision influences the next. We can help you examine these questions and develop solutions that work.
What’s New in Personalized Competency-Based Education
Personalizing Education in Your Classroom or School
You already know that individual students in your classroom or school respond differently to different types of learning and subject matter. Whether students prefer remote learning, individual learning, [...]
North Dakota’s Investment in Innovation Yields Early Dividends
For the last several years, REL Central at Marzano Research and the North Dakota Department of Public Instruction (NDDPI) have worked together on multiple projects supporting innovative ways to [...]
Summer 2020 for Educators—Catch Your Breath and Strategize
Relax. Breathe. The spring semester has been completed. It wasn’t easy, but you made it to the finish line of a marathon that felt like a sprint. Whew. [...]
Meet a Few of Our Experts
Jennifer Norford
Chief Program Officer
Marc Brodersen
Managing Senior Researcher
David Yanoski
Researcher
How We Can Help
We offer a wide range of consulting and research supports to ensure your personalized competency-based system is working for you and your students. We can help you
- Ensure you are using the latest evidence and strategies to design and implement your competency-based education system
- Evaluate the effectiveness of your competency-based practices on student outcomes
- Facilitate data analysis and sensemaking sessions to identify strengths and challenges in your system and with your students
