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Path to Competency

-This is a framework that helps us understand and see the stages we go through when we are learning

-This idea favors depth over breathe. Often in schools and educational systems, breathe is prioritized and limits our ability to learn and understand new things at a level in which we become truly competent

- Emotions accompany our learning experiences. If we have a sense of the emotions we’re likely to feel as we move through the learning process, we’ll be better equipped to manage them along the journey

- This model highlights the factors that influence our thinking when we learn a new skill, concept or idea

-This is not a linear process, new situations, contexts, people can have us starting from different places even on the same topic

-Most people spend little time in the Unconscious Competence area. Most of us strive to be conscious of our Incompetence and Competence

Path to Competency

Conscious Incompetence

(increasingly Informed)�

We know what we don’t know.

Conscious Competence

(increasingly Informed)

We know what we know

Unconscious Competence

(increasingly Informed)

We have integrated some of what we know

Unconscious Incompetence��(clueless)

We don’t know what we don’t know

Line of Judgement

*adapted from Frances Kendall, 2012