Competency based learning emphasizes students demonstrating their understanding of what they have learned, and what they are expected to learn as they progress through their schooling. Each article or video had its own focus of competency-based learning. I learned that there are many different ways for the students to show competency in a normal classroom. My classroom is not normal however. In my classroom, my kids are little and we are a physical education class. So, most of our time is spent running around and doing movement activities. When I was going through the list of activities that my kiddos can use specifically in my class, there wasn’t much. They can do games, Kahoot! (first grade only), and possibly show & tell! Most of the time they show competency to me by demonstrating what they know through partner work or I pull them aside and have them show me the specific skill. I have found there are a couple ways I can include technology to do assessment, however I would most likely have to go over it with the students in some way especially with Kindergarten. 1st grade has a better understanding of technology and we could get around that and test using their iPads. From this I have learned that I do have some options to be able to use both formative and summative assessments in my class.
