EDU 491/591 Competency-Based Education (CBE) / Proficiency-Based Education (PBE)
Personalizing Learning with Competency-Based Education
In April 2021, the Montana Legislature approved funding to strengthen the preparation of the state’s educators to understand and implement proficiency-based/competency-based education. One of the ways we worked to accomplish this was by offering undergraduate and graduate level courses at NO COST.
EDU 491/591 Competency-Based Education, Instructor: Dr. Jeannie Chipps, jeanette.chipps@montana.edu
EDU 591 Competency-Based Education, Instructor: Dr. Hailey Hancock, haileyhancock@montana.edu
Course Description
A multitude of schools, districts, and entire states, such as New Hampshire, are shifting away from the traditional, time-based, Carnegie model of instruction. These innovators, including some rural schools in Montana, are developing and implementing what the Federal Department of Education identifies as Competency-Based Education (CBE). CBE includes personalized, mastery, project-based, and blended and/or virtual teaching/learning. This course will introduce future and practicing educators to these various teaching/learning modalities and prepare educators to compete for employment in these schools and districts or prepare educators to implement these modalities in their own classes/districts. If you are interested in seeing a sample syllabus, please email the course instructors.
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EDU 491 (designed for undergraduate pre-service teachers) |
EDU 591 (designed for in-service teachers, & school leaders) |
Course Outcomes By the end of this course, students will also be able to: |
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Content of the Course Learners will: |
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Course Findings
Where did our learners come from?
Our learners represented a variety of locations within Montana (and some additional learners intending to teach in other states/countries). This map shows the self-reported location that our learners intended to teach in the school year following our course.
What information did we learn in designing and delivering this course?
This brief one-page description of what we found from course polls describes some of the main takeaways from students in the course.
EDU 491_591 course outcome snapshot by J Chipps
How often was this offered?
EDU 491/591 was offered:
Summer 2022 - | 4 week course (June 13 - July 8) with daily expectations for learning |
Summer 2022 - | 4 week course (July 11 - Aug 5) with daily expectations for learning |
Fall 2022 - | 8 week course (Oct 17 - Dec 15) |
Spring 2023 - | 8 week course (March 13 - May 11) |
Summer 2023 - | 6 week course (June 26 - Aug 4) |
Fall 2023 - | first 8 weeks (Aug 23 - Oct 15) |
Fall 2023 - |
second 8 weeks (Oct 16 - Dec 14) |
For the follow-up EDU 492/592 which focuses on completing an action research project in a classroom of your choosing, using the techniques and strategies learned in EDU 491/591.
EDU 492/592 was offered:
Fall 2022- | 16 week course |
Spring 2023- | 16 week course |
Fall 2023 | 16 week course |
Proficiency/Competency-Based Summer Institute
For more information on the proficiency-based learning project, be sure to check out our new webpage and learn more about what we have been working on!