1. Competencies and Personalized Learning
Center on innovations in learning
June 2016

2. Personalized learning
Personalization refers to a teacher’s relationships with students and their families and the use of multiple instructional modes to scaffold each student’s learning and enhance the student’s personal competencies [cognitive, metacognitive, motivational, social/emotional]. Personalized learning varies the time, place, and pace of learning for each student, enlists the student in the creation of learning pathways, and utilizes technology to manage and document the learning process and access rich sources of information.
- Twyman & Redding, 2015, p. 3

3. CBE in personalized learning
The essential components of a competency- based approach to personalized learning are (a) an identified cluster of related capabilities (the competencies); (b) variation in the time, place, and pace of learning; and (c) criteria, including demonstrated application, to determine and acknowledge mastery.

4. Types of competencies
1. Academic
2. Career/Occupational
3. Personal

5. Personal Competencies—The roots of learning
Mastery
Knowledge and Skill
Cognitive
Metacognitive
Motivational
Social/Emotional
Personal Competencies

6. MetaAnalysis of Influences on Learning (Rank Order by Effect)
Bold Items are Student Attributes
Classroom Management
Metacognitive Processes
Cognitive Processes
Home Environment/Support
Student-Teacher Social Interactions
Social-Behavioral Attributes
Motivational-Affective Attributes
Peer Group
Quality of Instruction—student engagement
School Culture
Classroom Climate
Classroom Instruction—clear and organized
Curriculum Design
Academic Interactions
Classroom Assessment
(Wang, Haertel, & Walberg, 1993, 1997)

7. Personal Competency Framework
Cognitive
Competency
Context
School Community
School
Classroom
Metacognitive Competency
Mastery
Knowledge
Skill
Learning
Habits
Competency Reinforcement
Motivational Competency
Social/Emotional
Competency
Wang, Haertel, & Walberg