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USA
1960’s typical classroom – teacher-centered, fragmented
curriculum, students working in isolation, memorizing facts. |
A San
Francisco architectural firm establishes an alternative
school providing internships for high school students. A
perfect example of real-life, relevant, project-based 21st
century education.
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Time-based |
Outcome-based
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Focus:
memorization of discrete facts |
Focus: what
students Know, Can Do and Are Like after all the details are
forgotten.
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Lessons focus on
the lower level of Bloom’s Taxonomy – knowledge,
comprehension and application. |
Learning is
designed on upper levels of Blooms’ – synthesis, analysis
and evaluation (and include lower levels as curriculum is
designed down from the top.)
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Textbook-driven |
Research-driven
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Passive learning
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Active Learning
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Learners work in
isolation – classroom within 4 walls |
Learners work
collaboratively with classmates and others around the world
– the Global Classroom
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Teacher-centered: teacher is center of attention and
provider of information
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Student-centered: teacher is facilitator/coach |
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Little to no
student freedom |
Great deal of
student freedom
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“Discipline
problems – educators do not trust students and vice versa.
No student motivation. |
No “discipline
problems” – students and teaches have mutually respectful
relationship as co-learners; students are highly motivated.
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Fragmented
curriculum |
Integrated and
Interdisciplinary curriculum
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Grades averaged |
Grades based on
what was learned
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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.
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Teacher is
judge. No one else sees student work. |
Self, Peer and
Other assessments. Public audience, authentic assessments.
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Curriculum/School
is irrelevant and meaningless to the students. |
Curriculum is
connected to students’ interests, experiences, talents and
the real world.
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Print is the
primary vehicle of learning and assessment. |
Performances,
projects and multiple forms of media are used for learning
and assessment
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Diversity in
students is ignored. |
Curriculum and
instruction address student diversity
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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.
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Factory model, based upon the
needs of employers for the Industrial Age of the 19th
century. Scientific management. |
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Driven by the NCLB and
standardized testing mania. |
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