A Comparison Chart - which one describes your classroom or school?

20th Century Classrooms	21st Century Classrooms
Time-based	Outcome-based
Focus on memorization of discrete facts	Focus on what students KNOW, CAN DO and ARE LIKE after all the details are forgotten
Lessons focus on lower level of Bloom’s Taxonomy – knowledge, comprehension and application	Learning is designed on upper levels of Bloom’s – synthesis, analysis and evaluation
Textbook-driven	Research-driven
Passive learning	Active learning
Learners work in isolation – classroom within 4 walls	Learners work collaboratively with classmates and others around the world – the Global Classroom
Teacher-centered:  teacher is center of attention and provider of information	Student-centered:  teacher is facilitator/coach
Little or no student freedom	Great deal of student freedom
“Discipline problems” – educators do not trust students and vice versa. No student motivation.	No “discipline problems” – students and teacher have mutually respectful relationship as co-learners;  students are motivated.
Fragmented curriculum	Integrated and Interdisciplinary curriculum
Grades averaged	Grades are based on what was learned
Low expectations	High expectations – “If it isn’t good, it isn’t done”  We expect, and ensure, that all students succeed in learning at high levels.  Some may go higher – we get out of their way to let them do that.
Teacher is judge.  No one else sees student work.	Self, Peer and Other assessments.  Public audience, authentic assessments.
Curriculum/School is irrelevant and meaningless to the students.	Curriculum is connected to students’ interests, experiences, talents and the real world.
Print is the primary vehicle of learning and assessment.	Performances, projects and multiple forms of media are used for learning and assessment.
Diversity in students is ignored.	Curriculum and instruction address student diversity.
Literacy is the 3 R’s – reading, writing and math	Multiple literacies of the 21st century – aligned to living and working in a globalized new millennium.