Learning+&+Teaching+Innovation

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Goals

 * Recast existing lessons
 * What are the core knowledge aims?
 * What the skills-based aims (implicit/explicit)?
 * Are there any connections to other disciplines, students' lives, real world?
 * Redesign lessons and assessments
 * Reinforce how students learn
 * Accentuate student-centered processes
 * Promote student engagement
 * Foster complex mastery of skills
 * Focus on essential capacities and habits of mind(handout)
 * View class time as lab/rehearsal/process/practice/coaching space and interval for student development
 * Incorporate regular, individualized opportunities for students to demonstrate objectives and receive feedback
 * Design inquiry-based, problem-based, and project-based learning and assessments
 * Develop a culture of reflection, flexibility, and collegial dialogue

Resources Related to Specific Topics
I. Longer Class Periods II. Inquiry-based Learning III. Project-based Learning IV. Rubrics V. Learning Innovation Grant Participants and Descriptions VI. How-To Videos VI. Vetted iPad Apps V. Classroom Management Systems

Glossary of Terms