creating a learner centered environment

Creating a Learner-Centered Environment

Globally Competitive

Graduate

Core Knowledge Life and Career Skills

Learning and Innovation Skills

Media, Information, & Technology Skills

Preparation and Planning

Classroom Environment

Rigorous Relevant

Accessible Responsive

Instruction Professionalism

Our Goal

What a globally competitive

STUDENT look like

What a globally competitive

TEACHER looks like

What a globally competitive

CURRICULUM look like

Framework for Teaching, The Danielson Group, 2011 Framework for 21st Century Learning, Partnership for 21st Century Skills, http://p21.org

P21

Learner-Centered

EnvironmentKey Concept: The instructor creates authentic experiences that motivate learners to construct their own meaning and accept responsibility for learning.

Focus Areas of Student-Centered

Teacher Space

Student

Focus Areas for Learner-Centered Environments

Shifts to Learner-Centered

Teacher-Centered Environments

What the TEACHER Is doing

What the PHYSICAL

SPACE looks like

What the STUDENTis doing

Learner-Centered Environments

What the TEACHER Is doing

What the PHYSICAL

SPACE looks like

What the STUDENTis doing

Teacher PracticeRefers to the decisions made and actions taken by teachers that are driven by the needs of students.

This includes:

• Planning

• Classroom Environment

• Instruction

Teacher

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Preparation and Planning

Classroom Environment

Instruction Professionalism

Danielson Framework

Physical SpaceIn creating a classroom environment, teachers make specific choices about the organization of physical space.

This includes:

• Furniture

• Physical Resources and Visuals

• Room Orientation

Space

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Preparation and Planning

Classroom Environment

Instruction Professionalism

Danielson Framework

Student PracticeIn a learning environment, students are:

• Acquiring

• Developing

• Using

• Producing/Creating

knowledge, Information, and Skills

Student

Learning and Innovation

Skills

Media, Information

and Technology

Skills

Core Knowledge

Life and Career Skills

P21.org

Identifying Characteristics

Teacher-Centered

Learner-Centered

Actions teachers can take to shift

to learner centered

environment

Classroom Characteristics

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