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Goals for the 21st Century Classroom

Chris Schultheis

Do you remember a Classroom like this?

Has it really changed that much?

Should it Change?

Goals for theModern Classroom

• Student Centered • Learning and Doing• Using Information• Teachers as Facilitators• Technology Rich Environment

Why Change?

• Different skills needed• Different student skills• Smaller world• More competitive world

Student Centered

• What is the focus of school?

• Teaching or Learning?

• Where does learning take place?

Teacher focused on studentsStudents focused learning

Students actively learningNot passively listening

Students teaching themselvesBuilding their bridges to their own knowledge

Learning and Doing

• What is the best way to learn?

• When do we learn the most in our lives?

• How do we learn at that time?

Even the greatest minds

Can you learn this by listening?

Learn by doing so we can do it again

Trying is learning

You do it, you are it

Using Information• Why just know the material?

• What is the reason for learning the material?

• How does this help the development of the student?

New Bloom’s Taxonomy

Teacher as Facilitator

• How do we best accomplish the first three goals?

• What is a facilitator?

• Who must really teach who?

Facilitation is…

Helping and Clarifying

Technology Rich Environment

Without technology, these other goals are either unattainable or made to feel that way.

But with technology, we can accomplish the other goals.

And with that..

Students will know the material so well, that they’ll say