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Based on our discussion and the materials related to the topics, answer the following questions:

1. Why did competence-based education become so important at the beginning of 21 st century?


- With competency-based learning experience, students continue to work on the skill until they
demonstrate mastery over it through an authentic assessment, proving that they have a deep
understanding of it and are able to perform the skill in a “real world” context. The teachers are
tailoring their instruction to respond to exactly where students are at in their learning.
Skills such as critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, communication, and information
technology literacy are in high demand.
2. How do you understand the need for ‘measurable outcomes of education’?
- Measurable learning objectives provide students with what is expected of them within a
course. They clarify what a student is expected to learn after engaging with instructors, peers,
course content and assignments
3. How is the idea of competence linked to life-long learning?
- There are many definitions of life-long learning, some consider life-long learning as beyond the
traditional formal education, some consider lifelong learning as self-motivated learning that is
focused on personal development.
Lifelong learning competence requires an active and constant usage of knowledge.
4. How do you understand the empowering role of competence?
- Competence refers to the skills and characteristics that enable you to perform a job. If
someone can perform a required task at a targeted level of proficiency, they are competent. To
be competent, you must be able to react to a situation and follow behaviors you have found to
succeed in the past. To do this, you must have a repertoire of possible actions to take and
training in them. Competency grows with experience and training.
5. What are the main approaches to defying competence?
- Behavioural approach: Competence as a set of abilities that ensure
productivity in the labour market.
- Functional or generic approach: Competence as the knowledge, skills, and aptitudes that make
people able to solve a task under set conditions. It seeks to identify abilities and features that
explain variation in performance in specific contexts.
- Constructivist-holistic approach: Competence as the knowledge about how to mobilize the
elements of the competence in order to solve a task satisfactorily; to want, to have personal
motivation; and to be able to do, thanks to a context and conditions that make the solution of
the task possible.
6. What are the component parts of each key competence and how are they interrelated?
- Meaningful contexts- For learning to take place it is recommended that educators create or
look for meaningful contexts in which learner will experience the relevance and the meaning of
the competences to be acquired in a natural way.
- Room for initiative and creativity- In order to acquire competence(s) it is required that the
learners are given room to take initiatives.
- Constructive learning- Learning is conceived as a process of constructing one’s own knowledge
in interaction with one’s environment, rather than as a process of absorbing the knowledge
others try to transmit.
- Cooperative, interactive learning- The basic idea behind competence-based education is to help
learners develop and construct their own knowledge and seek ways to make optimal use of
other people’s competence in their own learning itinerary.
- Discovery learning- Open learning processes require learning that may be characterized as
active discovery as opposed to receptive learning. It means that the way of acquiring this
knowledge or these competences, cannot be just a process of providing information, but should
always be embedded in a discovery-based approach.
- Reflective learning- Competence based learning requires, apart from a focus on the key
competences, also an emphasis on the learning processes as such. By reflecting on one’s own
needs, motivation, approach, progress, results etc. one develops learning
competences/strategies
- Personal learning- In the competence-oriented theories learning is conceived as a process of
constructing one’s own personal knowledge and competences. In education this implies that
learners need to be able to identify with the contexts, the people, the situations and interests
which are included in the learning domains involved.

7. What is the main difference between subject knowledge-based and competence-based teaching
and learning?
- Gaining knowledge and putting it into practice is fundamental to learning, and the most
effective way to learn is to build upon what you already know. Traditionally, education has
followed the path to greater knowledge, but as skill gaps emerge, teachers must find new ways
to address them. Knowledge is the theoretical understanding of something, which is acquired
through lectures and textbooks. Knowledge-based learning, therefore, refers to reading,
listening, and watching to obtain the information needed before progressing to the next stage of
learning.

8. Choose one of the competence-oriented approaches to teaching and explain its main benefits
for learners.
-In a competence-oriented approach we focus more on improving a person's actual performance
in an actual situation. We focus on providing the feedback and inputs needed to help the person
raise his/her level of performance.
The idea is that adult learners need to be actively involved in the learning situation. They learn
best in meaningful contexts, and in co-operation and interaction with others and with their
environment. Thus, they enable themselves to acquire knowledge, construe knowledge, and
check and cross-check their newly constructed ideas with those of others. Of course, this implies
no denial of the importance of teaching; it emphasises the necessity of teaching in a highly
responsive and learner-centred way without neglecting the obligation of showing learners new
horizons and perspectives, and enthusiasm for things they may never yet have heard of.
Competence based learning requires an approach to education that differs from the traditional
approaches to teaching.

9. How can educational staff be supported in implementing competence-based education?


- There are a few teps to develop a competency-based curriculum
Development or identification of general competencies.
Organizing competencies into specific themes.
Establishing criteria for performance.
Creating learning experiences.
Assessing competency.
Evaluating the effectiveness of the curriculum.

10. Explain the nature of transversal skills and their relation to 21st century skills.

- Transversal skills are increasingly in high demand for learners to successfully adapt to changes and
to lead meaningful and productive lives. There are a lot of important Transversal skills like: Digital-
Age literacy; Inventive thinking; Effective communication; High productivity; using tools interactively;
Each skill cluster is further broken down into representative skill sets, which offer guidance on
recognizing student performance in developing the 21st Century Skills. These Transversal key
competences enables us to have a positive impact on the development of students’ key
competencies through building teachers’ capacity on competence-oriented education.

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