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Characteristics of The 21st Century Classroom

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

When I embarked on my teaching journey back in 2003, the landscape of the classroom was quite different from what we see today. As I ponder these changes, I find it both fascinating and essential to articulate the characteristics that now define a modern classroom. The concept of a 21st-century classroom has evolved significantly.

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Learning Styles: Fact or Fiction? What This Decades-Old Theory Can Teach Us

Waterford

Then, we’ll discuss how to best incorporate what the learning styles theory teaches about individualized learning in the classroom. Measuring learning styles often involves an assessment such as this one from the Georgia Department of Education. How to Shift from Learning Styles to Differentiated Instruction.

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Characteristics of The 21st Century Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

In this latest installment, we turn our focus back to a topic I last discussed in 2011: the characteristics of 21st-century teachers. Collaboration transcends classroom boundaries, involving a myriad of stakeholders – colleagues, students, parents, and the broader educational community. 2011, Nurmi et al., Madda et al.,

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The 7 Key Elements of eSpark’s Theory of Learning

eSpark

These elements are: differentiation, adaptivity, student engagement, direct instruction, practice, formative assessment with immediate feedback and student explanation of learning. 1: Differentiation Keeps Learning Accessible. Research shows that differentiated content leads to greater student reading growth (Reis et al.,

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SMATH: How to Turn 2 Subjects Into 1 Super-Class

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But with so much happening in our individual classrooms, we teachers often don’t take our own good advice. We realized combining classes could help us integrate science and math standards, while team-teaching would allow us to differentiate instruction. Although we’d love to have one huge classroom, we just don’t have the space.

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Transforming Schools and Outcomes by Using a Culturally Responsive Curriculum

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Explaining how this approach can be implemented in today’s classrooms, McTighe suggested framing topics in terms of key concepts and creating “concept word walls” that showcase vocabulary related to the big ideas underlying the topic. He also directed the development of the Instructional Framework, a multimedia database on teaching.

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Grow a Learning Culture through Peer Coaching

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Teching it Up K-12 -- Success Stories, Part 2 In Part 1 of "Teching it Up K-12 -- Success Stories," originally presented at the Arizona CIO/CTO Forum 2011 , we focused on the importance of a learning-centric vision. Staff development focused on pedagogy and differentiated instruction with technology infused in it.