Teaching and Instruction pages D6 to D9

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Teaching and Instructionpages D-6 to D-9

• How students are taught
• Trying to put it all together
• National Models for School Reform
• No one right way

Presented by Kim Harrison December 2000
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Questioning Traditional Approaches

• Brain Research
• Need for learners to explore material in greater
  depth and make connections

• Multiple Intelligence
• Suggest that students learn through moving around
  and talking to others

• Learning Research
• Students learn through doing, not just hearing
  and seeing

• Re-examination of how teachers teach

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As a result . . .

• Teachers are urged to use a variety of grouping
  strategies

• Teachers are encouraged to continually measure
  student progress and modify instruction to
  improve skills and challenge students

• New technologies can alter how teachers teach and
  students learn

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Teaching Challenges

• Teachers must adapt their approaches to meet the
  needs of the students in the context of their
  school, district, and community

• Teachers are confronted with issues of time and
  grouping (class size reduction)

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New Approaches to Teaching and Learning
Integrated subjects
Emphasis on cooperative learning
Combination of all of these

• Distance learning
• through computers

Multiage classrooms
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School Reform

• California-specific networks have been created

• Local business interests
• Joint Venture Silicon Valley
• LEARN, the Los Angeles Educational Alliance for
  Restructuring Now

• Private Foundations
• Los Angeles Annenberg Metropolitan Project
• Bay Area School Reform Collaborative

• Statewide Government
• CDEs Challenge School District Program

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National Models for School Reform

• The New American Schools Network

• Authentic Teaching, Learning and Assessment for
  All Students (ATLAS)
• Co-NECT Schools
• National Alliance for Restructuring Education

• The Accelerated Schools Project

• The Coalition for Essential Schools

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The New American Schools Network

• Partnership of leading educational organizations,
  school-improvement teams, and communities

• Each New American School has a unique design, but
  shares a commitment to research-based educational
  practices

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New American School Designs

• Authentic Teaching, Learning and Assessment for
  All Students (ATLAS)
• Elementary through high school
• Focus is on collaboration between parents and
  educators

• Co-NECT Schools
• Technology-rich approach to teaching and learning
• Project-based curriculum
• Multiage cluster teams

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New American School Designs

• National Alliance for Restructuring Education
  (Americas Choice Design)

• Partnership between schools, districts, states,
  and national organizations

• Based on five design priorities for change
• Standards and assessment
• Learning and environments
• Community services and supports
• Public engagement
• High performance management

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The Accelerated Schools Project

• Comprehensive enrichment strategy to improve
  learning of at-risk students

• Rich, challenging learning activities usually
  reserved for gifted and talented students

• Began at Stanford University in 1986

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The Coalition for Essential Schools

• Nationwide network of high schools

• Established to improve student learning and
  achievement

• Guided by ideas such as
• student-as-work/teacher-as-coach
• personalized teaching and curriculum
• performance-based assessment

• Based on Theodore Sizers Horaces Compromise
  principles

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No One Right Way

• Changes made in school organization and teaching
  reflect

• Research into how children learn

• Experience regarding the best ways to teach them

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A Collaborative Effort

• One solution isnt right for every school, every
  teacher, or every child

• School leaders must openly discuss school change
  with
• Staff
• Parents and other community members
• Students

• Goals should be agreed upon by all involved

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The Power of Their Ideasby Deborah Meier

• What is the viewpoint toward the issues discussed
  in the text?
• How widely held does this viewpoint seem to be?