Competencies vs. Seat Time: How Do You Measure Student Achievement?
A major component of competency-based education revolves around the idea of measuring student achievement by mastery of a skill, not how long they've spent in a classroom. So, if seat time, or even number grades, are not being used, how is a student's success actually measured in competency-based education? The key is in competencies. [...]
Competency Ed Encourages ‘Employability Skills’
What are 'Employability Skills?' In short, employability skills are just what they sound like. Real world skills that will help you get a job. Some students may feel like that the things they are learning are useless, that the only skills they are developing are how to efficiently work the system to get grades. [...]
NEW FEATURE: Mass Update for Student Password
Now an admin can give all students the same password. Go to Settings, Manage Students and click the Advanced button. This will re-direct you to a page where you can manage student self scheduling, and now, set the same password for all students. This is to enable all students to log in to their [...]
NEW FEATURE: Tardy Report
A new report is available under the Analysis page. It's found under the Attendance section and is labeled Tardy Students. This lists students that were marked as tardy for the provided date range. I will list the student's name, the date they were scheduled, the period, and course they were scheduled for. You may [...]
NEW FEATURE: Manage Student Requests
Your school may enable its students to request an appointment to see a teacher. You can view student requests on the Requests page, which you can get to by selecting Requests in the navigation logged into your Enriching Students account. In addition, if you have any new student requests, a notification will appear at [...]
Why PLCs are Key to Student Success
Does your school have a Professional Learning Community? If you do, what does this look like? More importantly… Is it something you look forward to? Even if you do not have one at your school, likely you’ve heard of them. Professional Learning Communities. What are they? Is this just a fancy name for a [...]