Who would have thought the terms “competency” and “mastery” would elicit the sort of reactions they do in higher education? To some, the word competency is a threat to education itself, a way to ...

Competency-based education is slowly catching on, with the help of policies that give permission for schools in every state to adopt it. But the learning model—a series of non-traditional approaches ...

Welcome to our live Web chat on recruiting and retaining teachers--obviously an extremely pressing issue in K-12 education today. The Vancouver, Wash., school district says it has tackled the problem ...

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The emergence of artificial intelligence as a tool in education presents both opportunities and challenges for aspiring teachers. Generative AI has the potential to transform teaching practices, ...

Competency models are used to define which characteristics and performance requirements are needed to meet a certain expectation. A competency is essentially being adept and capable at a certain skill ...

In recent years, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and other international initiatives have advanced the global assessment ...

Manitoba’s independent education commissioner will have new powers to field and probe complaints about teacher performance in time for back-to-school season. Following a mid-summer consultation ...

From 12th to 15th August 2025, a four-day workshop was held at Hotel Rumi, Dushanbe, gathering 40 participants including STEM teachers from pilot schools, in-service teacher trainers and mentors, ...

Doha: The Ministry of Education and Higher Education (MoEHE) has launched a project to assess teacher competency in the three compulsory subjects (Arabic, Islamic, and Qatari history) in private ...