Change In The ClassroomMy Innovative PlanTyna Williams

Attention ColleaguesWant students to come to school every day and be excited to learn? Want students to participate and be engaged in your classroom. As teachers do you want to provide differentiated instruction to your students.As teachers do you want to be able to show your administrator your students progress with data. NOTE:To change images on this slide, select a picture and delete it. Then click the Insert Picture iconin the placeholder to insert your own image.

Let me introduce to you my innovation plan. The main objective of this plan will be to improve the education system on the elementary school level in content areas by implementing the station rotation model via the blended learning model (Horn & Staker, 2015).

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My main goal is to implement an innovation plan that would incorporate blended learning into the classroom. By doing this we wouldnt just throw away our traditional methods, but we simply would renovate them. Doing this would allow students to receive a better education and better will turn into outstanding when all of us will support and collaborate these methods. So lets just say we update those traditional methods. Lets get out our comfort zones and step into the 21st century by learning and teaching with technology.NOTE:To change images on this slide, select a picture and delete it. Then click the Insert Picture iconin the placeholder to insert your own image.

What is Blended Learning?Horn and Staker (2015), the authors ofBlended: Using Disruptive Innovation to Improve Schools, define blended learning as any formal education program in which a student learns at least in part through online learning, with some element of student control over time, place, path, and/or pace andat least in part at a supervised brick-and-mortar location away from home (p. 54).

Our school is the supervised brick-and-mortar location. That is not enough. We have to allow students to control some portion of their learning. We the teachers, paraprofessionals, and administrators should want the learning experiences to be student-centered. This gives students the power to have some control over their learning, and the ability to own their learning. Doing this moves the focus away from us the teacher and puts the focus back to where it needs to be on our students. That way they will learn through choice, responsibility, and ownership. This will give our students a voice.

How to Implement Blended Learning?

Horn and Staker (2015) define the station rotation as a course or subject in which students rotate on a fixed schedule or at the teachers discretionbetweenandallof the learning modalities, at least one of which is online learning (p. 55

Why Use Station Rotation?Implement differentiated instruction for academic skills through ways such as online instruction, and teacher-led instructionStations would have collaborative activities that reinforce the academic skills which allows students to have opportunities for peer-to-peer interaction, independent practice, and social and emotional skills.

This plan is a catalyst for change in our education system in various ways, technology plays a large role in the quality of the lessons because the materials, delivery, content, and assessments would be revamped. However doing this transformation we still meet our state, district, and school standards.

The Station Rotation model via blended learning, would change our education system by modernizing it. This will help our students are our future leaders and trendsetters. This plan will be transforming their learning experiences with innovative planning, implementation, and assessment of content learned via online instruction, teacher-led instruction, and other collaborative activities and stations.

ReferencesHorn, M. B., & Staker, H. (2015).Blended: Using Disruptive Innovation to Improve Schoolshttp://www.dreambox.com/blog/five-benefits-of-blended-learning