creating a learner centered environment
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Creating a learner centered classroom, looking at how it relates to the teaching and learning framework and where the focus areas are going to be for the year.TRANSCRIPT
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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3 4
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
•Where do you believe Eastern Tech is on learner centered environments1 3 5
Teacher centered ½ Teacher, ½ Learner Centered Learner Centered
•What are actions teachers can take to shift to a learner centered environment?