Proficiency-based, Customized Learning

Mike’s Experience

• Helped co-design and implement Auburn’s Customized Learning initiative.
• Designed the Phases of Implementing Customized Learning model.
• Proficiency-based Learning Specialist for GEAR UP Maine.
• Conducted the “Where are we with PBE?” Study and “Do just 3 things” study to inform GEAR UP Maine supports and schools getting started with PBE.
• Designed and led numerous workshops on getting started with PBE, competency-based instruction and learning activity design, and formative feedback and assessment of learning targets.

Some of Mike’s Writing on the Topic

• 10 Key Components of Customized Learning
• Not All At Once: The Phases of Implementing Customized Learning
• Don’t Play Blind Golf: Formative Feedback
  
• Moving Towards Standards-Based Grading
  
• The Problem With Grades Based on Averages
• Keeping Track of Student Learning (Part 1; Part 2)
• If It Sounds Crazy, That’s Probably Not How They’re Doing It
• Modeling of Customized Learning (Paradigm Shifting)