CBC is designed with the objective that at the end of each learning cycle, every learner will be competent in the following seven core competency areas: I. Communication and Collaboration II. Self-efficacy III. Creativity and Imagination IV. Digital Literacy V. Critical Thinking and Problem-solving VI. Citizenship VII. Learning to learn
Seven Basic Competencies Guiding the NOBTS Curriculum. NOBTS faculty members realize that all ministers need to develop specific competencies if they are going to have an effective ministry. To increase the likelihood of NOBTS graduates having an effective ministry, the faculty developed a competency-based curriculum after identifying seven ...
The Seven undergraduate competencies are: Critical thinking and problem-solving skills; Agility and Adaptability Skills; Communication Skills; Curiosity and Imagination Skills; Initiative taking and entrepreneurial skills; Collaboration and Leadership Skills; Accessing and Analyzing Information Skill
Guidelines for Seven-Course Breadth. As the foundation of a liberal arts education, breadth courses give students a view into the intellectual life of the University while introducing them to a multitude of perspectives and approaches to research and scholarship. The requirement consists of seven distribution areas (expand below for ...
Energy | Motivating | Adaptability |
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Interviewing | Networking | Vision |
Communication skills (verbal) | Communication skills (written) | Group-oriented leadership |
Customer-oriented | Acting innovatively | Delegating |
Problem analysis | People-driven management | Independence |
To understand and interpret Christian theological heritage and Baptist polity for the church.
To stimulate church health through mobilizing the church for missions, evangelism, discipleship, and church growth.
To perform pastoral care effectively, with skills in communication and conflict management.
To provide moral leadership by modeling and mentoring Christian character and devotion.
Courses that satisfy the Physical Science requirement teach students how to explain natural phenomena starting from first principles, using a combination of reason, experiment, and quantitative analysis.
Perspectives on the human condition and an appreciation of the origins and evolution of the numerous cultures and social orders that have populated the earth. Courses fulfilling this requirement deal primarily with the human events, institutions and activities of the past.
Investigation of the intellectual and ethical motivations that inspire the record of humanity's social and cultural achievement and to ponder the types of questions that will enhance their ability to understand their heritage, their contemporaries, and themselves. Courses fulfilling this requirement include those with a major focus on religion, ethics, legal values, or leading philosophical figures.
As the foundation of a liberal arts education, breadth courses give students a view into the intellectual life of the University while introducing them to a multitude of perspectives and approaches to research and scholarship.
Competencies and learning outcomes are two related educational terms that can create confusion. Competencies and outcomes can be written to describe the learning gained by students in individual courses (course outcomes) or for the program as a whole (program outcomes). They DO NOT mean the same thing.
Competency: A general statement that describes the desired knowledge, skills, and behaviors of a student graduating from a program (or completing a course). Competencies commonly define the applied skills and knowledge that enable people to successfully perform in professional, educational, and other life contexts.
Key Distinction: A true learning outcome is written so that it can be measured or assessed. It focuses on what the student is able to do at end of a program (or course).
Thus, learning outcomes are the basis for an assessment program that focuses on what a student can or should be able to do either upon completion of a course or upon graduation from a program. The term learning outcome is used more commonly in the context ...
Furthermore, they developed an initial classification scheme for the 21st century skills consisting of three broad, but overlapping, clusters of competencies that included cognitive, intrapersonal, and interpersonal domains.
The cognitive domain involves reasoning and memory ; the intrapersonal domain involves the capacity to manage one's behavior and emotions to achieve one's goals; and the interpersonal domain involves expressing ideas, and interpreting and responding to messages from others (NRC 2012).
According to the NRC (NRC 2012), research supports the fact that young people who both apply and develop intertwined cognitive intrapersonal, and interpersonal competencies in the process of deeper learning are better prepared for adult success.
We believe that professionalism is the key to career success. Exhibiting professionalism allows you to engage in behaviors that contribute to a positive, productive, and cohesive work environment. In addition to understanding and applying the basic concepts of communication and problem solving and critical thinking, which are part of the general education literacies above, you will have the opportunity to develop competencies in the areas of teamwork, leadership, personal presentation, and multiculturalism and diversity. Through repeated practice and study throughout your academic program, you will understand and learn to exhibit professionalism in your chosen career. Each outcome will be present in one-quarter of all major requirement courses.
This means you understand and can apply the basic concepts of ethics, critical thinking, research, technology, arts and humanities, communication, mathematics, science, and social science. To help accomplish this goal, general education requirements include six courses within the bachelor's degree programs in communication, mathematics, science, social science, and arts and humanities. A seventh course in professionalism and career development ensures you become a strong, career-focused professional. These courses are designed to introduce you to the basic concepts, terminology, and methodology of each area. Furthermore, each traditional course and each collection of module courses offered at Purdue Global includes a communications assignment and the use of technology, reinforcing the communications and technology literacies. Each traditional course and each collection of module courses also includes a unit of study based on one of the remaining seven literacies. These courses and units of study address practical issues and encourage you to reflect on your personal experience. Through repeated practice and study throughout your program, you will understand the interrelationship of broad fields of human inquiry and how they apply to your personal and professional life.
The primary goal of general education requirements is to help ensure you are literate in each of the general education areas listed below. This means you understand and can apply the basic concepts of ethics, critical thinking, research, technology, arts and humanities, communication, mathematics, science, ...
To help accomplish this goal, general education requirements include six courses within the bachelor's degree programs in communication, mathematics, science, social science, and arts and humanities. A seventh course in professionalism and career development ensures you become a strong, career-focused professional.
One 100/200-level course in mathematics in associate's and bachelor's degree programs. 3 A quarter of the elective courses offered at the University will include a mathematics unit that applies math concepts to the content of the course.
Describe the difference between structure and competency process-based educational programs.
Carraccio C, Wolfsthal SD, Englander R, Ferentz K, Martin C. Shifting paradigms: From Flexner to competencies. Acad Med. 2002;77 (5):361-7.
The author of this section, a faculty member of the WVU School of Dentistry’s Division of Dental Hygiene, was involved in the process of converting their Division’s processed-based curriculum to a competency-based curriculum in preparation for accreditation in Spring 2002.
Competencies are statements of the characteristics that graduating students should demonstrate which indicate they are prepared to perform and function independently in professional practice. Competencies should include more than just facts.
When the Division embarked on the task of converting their process-based curriculum to a competency-based curriculum, all Division faculty members met to identify the minimum characteristics the ideal graduate should reasonably possess to be able to practice their profession competently in their chosen setting.
Next, each faculty member was given a grid for each of the fourteen program competencies. Each faculty member was instructed to list on each labeled competency grid the courses they taught and the course objectives which contributed knowledge, skills, attitudes or values to the attainment of that competency.
At this stage, the faculty was feeling good about their curriculum development accomplishments! But how would the Division be able to document that the design for developing a competent practitioner was successful? The faculty met to identify the benchmarks (criteria) of success for each program competency and the sources of that information.