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Brainless Sameness: The Demise of One-Size-Fits-All Instruction and the Rise of Competency Based Learning

Brainless Sameness: The Demise of One-Size-Fits-All Instruction and the Rise of Competency Based Learning


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This book offers a careful look at how we came to have our traditional education system, and how it met the needs of a different time. By looking back at the past we can take on the task of change without casting blame, but with understanding. We will consider the systems design of the curriculum driven one-size-fits-all educational model, why it no longer meets our needs, and how to devise a system which can deliver a better future for our children and for ourselves as educators.

Table of Contents:
Introduction Chapter One: Time for Disruptive Innovation in Our Schools Chapter Two: Our Moment of Opportunity Chapter Three: Hasn’t Worked Can’t Work Won’t Work Chapter Four: Designing Student Learning for the 21st Century Chapter Five: Personalized Competency Based Learning in Elementary and Preschool Chapter Six: Personalized Competency Based Learning in Secondary Schools Chapter Seven: Personalized Competency Based Learning in Higher Education Chapter Eight: How to Suck Innovation Out of the American Education System Chapter Nine: Leading to Innovation Chapter Ten: The Equity Agenda Chapter Eleven: Bring Back the Joy Chapter Twelve: We Need Leaders Like You Chapter Thirteen: A Call to Action Chapter Fourteen: Which System Do You Want for Your Children? Appendix

About the Author :
Bob Sornson is a best-selling author and international consultant to schools and communities. His work focuses on competency based learning, early learning success, and parent engagement. Bob’s books include Over-Tested and Under-Prepared: Using Competency Based Learning to Transform Our Schools, Essential Math Skills, The Juice Box Bully, and many others.

Review :
In his new book Brainless Sameness, Bob Sornson nails his heartfelt, profound, and powerful thesis squarely on the doors of the education establishment. My sincere hope is that this book will be widely read by everyone involved in contemporary education K-16. As required by his task, Sornson pulls no punches in this book, being clear about the reasons for so called education reform’s failure, while also offering an inspired vision for helping students and schools fall in love with 21st century learning that really matters—to the learner and to society itself. Teachers have been marginalized during the decades of "school reform'. They are told what to "cover", at what pace, and using which materials. Bob Sornson offers us a much better way. In a personalized competency based instructional system teachers must know their students, maintain data systems so that we absolutely know what students are ready to learn, and find ways to give students high-quality instruction for as long as needed to achieve deep understanding. Instead of cogs in a failing system, we could be professionals again. Do not read this book if you are committed to keeping schools pretty much as they are. But if you want more children to fall in love with learning, build a strong belief that they are capable learners, and build skills for the 21st century, then by all means embrace every word in Brainless Sameness. Let's not look back years from now and say that we wish we had listened more closely to these words from Bob Sornson. Brainless Sameness describes a genuine path to school reform. Sornson helps the reader understand how the underlying design we use for schools, with its emphasis on same-age students learning the same content expectations, is a relic of the past. One-size-fits-all instruction can never produce the outcomes we need for our society, and consistently fails to give vulnerable kids a fair chance to become successful learners. Treasure this book, and use it to re-shape our schools. The transformation of education is grounded in a passionate drive to move beyond the shackles of traditional education. Bob Sornson's new book captures this passion and provides the answer to why we do this work. This book describes the history of competency education while providing the relevance for every educator to think deeply about the pedagogical changes needed to provide high quality education which meets the needs of each child. This is a must-read for educators, professional learning communities and leaders as they embark on their journey in moving to competency based learning. While the demand for innovation accelerates, public education runs the risk of being made irrelevant by clinging to a “one-size-fits-all” standards based curricular model. How can schools survive if they resist personalization, rigor, and the creation of inviting environments for learning? Bob Sornson’s new book Brainless Sameness hits this topic head-on, acknowledging both the need to change our schools and offering a pathway to do so. It’s an aspirational yet altogether practical book that will allow each reader to join this fight—a fight to give students the skills and the power to shape the world we live in today.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781475844870
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
  • Height: 228 mm
  • No of Pages: 160
  • Spine Width: 10 mm
  • Weight: 254 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1475844875
  • Publisher Date: 16 Aug 2018
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: The Demise of One-Size-Fits-All Instruction and the Rise of Competency Based Learning
  • Width: 151 mm


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