Competence Based Classroom
“It’s good enough” is the motto of most underachieving students. The work place and home are based on competence. You do it well, you do it competently and that is the minimum requirement. My classroom needs to reflect that. I should expect competence from my students and then move up from there. Students should be expected to be competent and then strive for more. But how do I do that? One year I looked at the children’s books, daily ripping pages out and getting the children to repeat work. Quality of work increased, quantity took a dive. That was over a term before I left for New Zealand. Had I continued in that vain maybe the amount of work needing repeating would drop off and the class coverage would increase… maybe something to try in February. Perhaps.
