“If I ran our school system...”
Students will have technology devices
(laptops,
Ipads, phones, internet, digital cameras,
smart
boards, printers, projectors and Skype)
AVAILABLE
EVERYDAY, ALL DAY.
Students will continue to focus
on Literacy, Mathematics, Writing, Science, Social Studies, Arts, Music and
Healthy Living/Recreation to understand how all these areas apply to life
outside of school and beyond. In a time when students can
connect to the world through unlimited access, I need to provide a window to
all that is available.
At times, I may not be the
only teacher in the “room”.
At times we may be watching,
listening, and observing real life situations through Skype from a business or
in another classroom across the wires.
The “teachers” will be young
and old, where students and teachers can experience the many opportunities to reach
out and explore the world.
The students, no matter what
age,
encourage, guide, push, challenge,
question and validate their learning,
so they can continue to reach a
deeper
understanding in all content
areas. Assessments
will be delivered
through standards based assessments,
calculating accomplishment
of a
standard by an online data
management collection system.
Teachers, parents and students will have
continuous access to student progress,
assignments and resources which support their continuous growth and learning. My school will be technology
literate and reach all styles of learners and
all learners will continuously work through the Taxonomy for Thinking daily or weekly in multiple content areas.
Angela - you posted quite a bit about having students work much higher in Bloom's Taxonomy (the Higher Order Thinking Skills). I agree with doing that, and wonder if a large section of our educators are ready to move away from traditional remember and regurgitate classrooms to ones full of inquiry based learning and emphasis on the HOTS? I know I want to see that happen more often than I do, but wonder about the transition to get there.
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