Improvingperformance 100520194739-phpapp02

Improving Performance

The goal for every school is to raise student achievement through change.
Goal

Example:
Get a college degree in your area of interest
Get a satisfying, well paying job
Live a happy life with the people you love
Change
Change is needed to improve student performance in the 21st Century Skills so they will succeed in
College Career Life

Are school helping students become
Critical thinkers?
Information and technology literate?
Problem solvers?
Good communicators?
Good collaborators?
Innovative and creative?
Questions

What steps should schools take in order to prepare students to be successful in the 21st century?
Develop teacher professional development programs that focus on 21st century skills instruction.
Example: Iowa’s Authentic Intellectual Work - an initiative to improve teaching and learning through professional development

Integrate 21st century skills into teacher preparation and certification.
Example; -AACTE (American Assoc. of Colleges for Teacher Education) writing specific steps and recommendations that will help guide the creation of 21st century schools of education.

Create school leadership teams to integrate 21st centrury skills into the curriculum. The team members need to be trained and then pass on their expertise to the other teachers in the district.
Example - At Catalina Foothills School District in Tucson, AZ, the assistant superintendent works with the leadership team to implement their programs throughout the school.

Schools Need to Invest in Information Communications Technologies
Example: Iowa Virtual Reality Education Pathway Showcase - Schools & Partners (Rockwell Collins, John Deere, Iowa Dept of Economic Development. An innovative plan for bringin g Virtual Reality programming and learning experiences to K-12 schools and students.

Develop professional learning communities around specific 21st century skills.
Use online learning communities
University of Northern Iowa uses Blackboard Learning in their Instructional Technology graduate program.

5. Integrate 21st century skills into teaching standards.
EXAMPLE The Iowa Core Curriculum have written Essential Concepts and/or Skills for
Civic literacy
Employability skills
Finincial literacy
Health literacy
Technolgoy literacy

6. Create a web site with lesson plans that deliver effective 21st century instruction to the students.
Iowa AEA Online - http://www.iowaaeaonline.org/ Teach 21 - http://wvde.state.wv.us/teach21 Thinkfinity - http://www.thinkinity.org/

What are the 21st Century Skills?
Mastery of Core Subjects
English, reading, world languages, arts, math, economics, science, geography, history, government and civics
21st century skills bridge the knowledge, skills, and dispotitions of students from the core academic areas to real life application.

21st century Themes
Global Awareness
Financial, Economic, Business & Entrpreneurial Literacy
Civic Literacy
Health Literacy

3 Learning & Innovation Skills
Creativity and innovation
Critical thinking and problem solving
Communication and collaboration
Focusing on worthwhile goals

4 Information, Media, & Technology skills
Exhibit a range of functional skills in
Information Literacy
Media Literacy
ICT (Infromation, Communications and Technology) Literacy

5. Life and Career Skills
Flexibility and adaptability
Initiative and self-direction
Social and cross-cultural skills
Productivity and accountability
Efficiency vs. Effectiveness
Leadership and responsibility

How can educators reach the goal?
Educators need to integrate 21st century skills into daily instruction
Technology
Ex. Project Child

What types of 21 st century technology tools can educators use?

Why should teachers create a Learning Community?
Appeals to students
Provides a challenge
Relevance and authenticity
Humor
Holds attention
Intellectually engaging
Connects with learners’ interests
Multiple forms of representation

Tapping the expertise within a school through coaching, mentoring, and team teaching
Personal experience with Co-teaching

Support educators in their role of facilitators of learning
Colleagues
Mentors
AEA

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by joniwalvatne on May 25, 2010

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