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10 Reasons for Competency Based Learning
We might conclude, that education and qualification needs to respond to that observation and cover the broad range of experience, attitudes, book-knowledge and skills that one has and needs for his or her active and autonomously shaped life.
10 Reasons for Competency Based Learning
- Competency based facilitation gives learners ownership over their learning and is a cooperative social process – real and authentic empowerment.
- It takes takes strengths, needs, and abilities of learners for serious. Be more often surprised by the abilities and strengths of your learners.
- It appreciates the diversity of perspectives and learning styles in a group as a potential (instead of trying to even these qualities).
- Competency based facilitation encourages creativity, because it shapes new connections between topics, people, concepts.
- It stimulates a sense of initiative and leads to self-efficacy when learners experience a gain of competencies by successful applying their knowledge.
- It's relevant, because it allows learners to apply their abilities in a lot of different social roles and situations.
- It's more flexible, because it understands learning as a process instead of subordinating it under the regime of a too linear curriculum.
- It allows you to focus more on social processes and communication skills, because competency learning is a social process.
- You are more free from unrealistic learning goals or unreal assumptions regarding the needs and abilities of your learners, because mainly the learners abilities are in the focus of competency based learning.
- Thanks to competency based learning you know better, how cooperation with different fields of education, social engagement or non-formal education increases the quality of education. Because such cooperation allows your learners to apply the learned better under real life conditions.
...and 5 Wrong Practices
Beyond all missionary words we need to acknowledge, that competency based learning is not always easy to implement. It is often a disruptive element in the learning culture of a school, of an academy or an organization. Changes are never easy and dilemmas appear between old proven and new risky ways of educating and unclarity how they might go together. For instance:
What Competency-centered Learning Should Not Be
- Bureaucracy: It's intended to give learners and teachers more freedom instead more reglementation. It's appreciating the learner and requires flexible teachers or facilitators in supporting them.
- Tailoristic: It's not the modern response to the old education for the workbench but with a similar attitude. Some promoters of competencies misunderstand competency-learning as only emphasizing on skills and skill-gaps. It aims to support autonomy, not usability.
- Autonomy terror: It's not a self-optimization tool for assessing the fittest or making people competitive. Nor is competency-centered education the rationalization of Western ideology. Competencies are neutral – which does not necessarily exclude ideological imprintings of certain competency frameworks.
- Stupidity: Competence-centered learning involves knowledge, attitude and skills. But that does not support some criticism, that knowledge and reflection of cognitively gained knowledge is less relevant. Competence means even more reflection. All dimensions of experience play a role, need to be strengthend and considered in the methodological concepts.
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DEFINITION:
"A competency is more than just knowledge and skills. It involves the ability to meet complex demands, by drawing on and mobilizing psychosocial resources (including skills and attitudes) in a particular context."
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