Competency-Based Education: Reflection and Application
This module highlighted the importance of competency-based education (CBE) in helping students achieve specific skills and knowledge at their own pace, with a focus on mastery rather than time spent. CBE promotes a student-centered approach, allowing learners to progress as they demonstrate competency in essential areas, ensuring that each student reaches a defined standard of proficiency before moving forward.
To apply this, I plan to integrate clear, measurable competencies in my curriculum, providing benchmarks that students must meet to advance. This will include practical skills assessments, case-based evaluations, and tailored feedback sessions to ensure students fully grasp each concept. By adopting this method, I can better support students in developing the skills necessary for clinical proficiency and professional success.
Although it can be challenging making scenarios/assessments that incorporate the higher-order thinking skills associated with Bloom's Taxonomy, the result will be a more authentic assessment of the students ability to apply the knowledge and correlate it with real life applications they will experience in their industry.
Competency based education's goal is to connect the student with theory and practice. It is a student-centered educational approach. In nursing this is important because currently the nursing shortage is putting pressure on educational systems to produce competent nurses in half the time. Once Nursing was a four year - three-year nursing program, but currently it has been shortened to eighteen months. It is paramount that skilled nurses are developed with the ability to problem solve, be a critical thinker, and demonstrate interpersonal skills.
Competency is the ability to use knowledge to reflect, analyze, judge resolve, discover, interact, and create
I think this is a good tool
This teaching style contributes to student success.
Its important to motivate the students, give students hands on experience.
Competency based learning is a so required to ones understanding of competencies and standards that are needed to be met in their future career fields.
Using Blooms, is not really a new concept (1956), as with many designs they are created and may not be stressed until they are. The action verbs create a higher level of thinking to promote critical thinking for optimal clinical judgments.
Comment on Laura Hogins's post: Laura I agree and we must review the educational task (lesson) as we develop our curriculum making sure our goals are understood for each task we employ.
As Bloom's Taxonomy is satisfied by the certain lab procedurals, lab has a place in post-secondary education. Lab assignments will often provide students with the opportunity to grow, but only under certain conditions. For example, a Lab assignment with little to no direction will or objective's does little in relation to one with objectives. This is due to the lack of direction a student will experience. The same levels of care must take place in lecture and in lab in order to facilitate an engaging learning experience.
All domains are important, and including elements of all of them will improve student learning and motivation.
When instructing a lab to relate book knowledge to real world applications. Motivate students by promoting an efficient active learning experience.
Learning all the objectives and applying it in real life is essential to the success of each person.
Each instructor has their own way of teaching along with their stronger welding processes as well as the students all have a different way of being able to understand and learn the different proccesses.
All areas need to be used. Each student is different and results will be according to the knowledge base of each individual student.
It is education that focuses of specific skills and knowledge required to adequately perform the specific work in the real-world.
Blooms is what you should build your lessons
Competency-based learning should be focused on knowledge acquisition to support workforce participation and/or be student-centered. The idea of teaching to competencies resonates with me. I've worked in workforce development for years and the need for industry recognized credentials has remained a necessity. As we prepare our students and deliver content, our focus should remain on these outcomes.
The shop/lab environment allows students to have a hand-on approach to learning. This allows students to experiment, model, test, fail and/or succeed, and move on with their learning at their own pace. It is probably the best type of learning because it is naturally more self-paced. The levels of Bloom's Taxonomy can mirror the levels that students are progressing through with their learning.
Use all of the taxonomy to ensure a complete process.
