
Vermont teachers try proficiency-based ed
Vermont teachers are trying to figure out how to meet the state’s mandate for Proficiency-Based Education in grades 7 to 12, writes Math Curmudgeon. In the four years since Act 77 passed, teachers have written “only four modules for our courses because teachers whine ‘We don’t know what you are asking us to do’ and, since the person in charge of PD doesn’t really know what the end goals should be and what PBE looks like in practice, we waste lots of time making empathy maps,