This document discusses innovative pedagogies being used in American high schools. It begins with an overview of Dr. Hiller Spires' connections to China through various conferences and collaborations since 2007. It then discusses two innovative pedagogies: the flipped classroom, where instruction is done at home via videos and class time is for hands-on work, and blended learning, which combines online and face-to-face instruction. The document suggests inverting Bloom's taxonomy as a framework and shows a project-based learning model. It concludes with references used.

1. Innovative Pedagogies in American
High Schools
美国高中创新教学法
Dr. Hiller A. Spires
Alumni Distinguished Graduate Professor
September 29, 2013

2. Overview
My Connection with China
Innovative Pedagogy in High Schools
--How Do You Collaborate & Problem Solve?
--The Flipped Classroom
--Blended Learning

6. CED Delegation to Beijing 2007
US Asia Conference Board 2008
NC/China Summit 2008, 2010, 2012
Chinese Scholar Junzheng Zhang 2009
New Literacies Institutes Beijing 2010, 2013
Student Summer/Winter Camps 2011-2013
Beijing Inst. for Science & Technology 2011
Chinese Scholar Professor Dan Li 2013
Involvement Since 2007

7. Having Our Say: US & Chinese Teacher’s Perceptions
Spires, Morris & Zhang, 2012

8. Spires, Morris & Zhang, 2012

9. How Do You Collaborate &
Problem Solve?
http://marshmallowchallenge.com/TED_Talk.html

10. A New Learning Ecology

11. TPACK, PBI, global competence, performance
assessment, professional learning communities
Spires, Wiebe, Young, Hollebrand, & Lee, 2009
New Learning Ecology

12. http://fh.house.upenn.edu/Lists/Posters/old%20timey%20lecture.jpg
Old Learning Ecology

13. Educational Challenges??
http://www.flickr.com/photos/circulating/254126209/sizes/m/

14. Any Value in Inverting Revised Bloom’s
Taxonomy?
Anderson & Krathwol, (2001); Spires et al (2009)

15. Ask a
Compelling
Question
Gather &
Analyze
Information
Creatively
Synthesize
Information
Critically
Evaluate &
Revise
Publish
Share
Act
Design Studio
Showcase
A Project Based Inquiry
Approach to Learning.
Adapted from
Spires, Lee, Young, Leu, Coiro, &
Castek, 2009

16. http://www.knewton.com/flipped-classroom/

17. http://www.knewton.com/blended-learning/

19. References
Images prepared by Ethos3: http://www.ethos3.com/
Li, J. (2012). Cultural Foundations of Learning: East and West. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
Ministry of Education (PRC). 2001. Guidelines for curriculum reform of basic education (Experimental Draft). BMoE
Document No. [2001] 17. Beijing Ministry of Education, The People's Republic of China (PRC).
Ryan, J., & Slethaug, G. (2010). International Education and the Chinese Learner. Hong Kong: Hong Kong
University Press.
Spires, H., Morris, G., & Zhang, J. (2012). New literacies and emerging technologies: Perspectives from middle
grade teachers in the US and China. Research in Middle Level Education, 35(10), 1-11.
Spires, H. & Zheng, M. (2012, December). New literacies, new complexities: A model of professional development
with Chinese teachers. Paper presented at the Literacy Research Association Conference, San Diego, CA.
Spires, H. (2011, October). New literacies and global learning: Implications for higher education in the US and
China. Invited keynote for the Beijing Institute for Science and Technology. Beijing, China.
Spires, H. (2011, October). Invited Remarks for Opening Ceremony, Beijing Institute for Science and
Technology, Beijing, China.
Spires, H. A., Wiebe, E., Young, C. A., Hollebrands, K., & Lee, J. K. (2012). Toward a new learning
ecology:Professional development for teachers in 1:1 learning environments. Contemporary Issues in Technology
and Teacher Education, 12(2). Retrieved from
http://www.citejournal.org/vol12/iss2/currentpractice/article1.cfm (Reprint of the Friday Institute White Paper.
NC State University: Raleigh, NC.)
Zhoa, Y. (2012). World Class Learners: Educating Creative and Entrepreneurial Students. Thousand
Oaks, California: Corwin.

20. Email: haspires@ncsu.edu
Web: Newlit.org
Hiller A. Spires