Teaching+in+the+21st+Century


 * = Grant Overview ||=  ||= Professional Development Agenda ||=   ||= PD Goals and Objectives ||=   ||= PD Resources ||=   ||= Professional Development Projects ||=   ||
 * =  ||=   ||  Teaching in the 21st Century ||=   ||= Project Assessment ||=   ||= Teaching Alphabet ||=   ||= [|Workshop Assessment] ||

**Other - Innovations/Changes: Teaching/Learning Models – current and proposed** Project O staff work in student teams and advise students throughout the learning process. Students work with experts in the field. Advisor/ advisee model ||
 * **Current** **School Structures** || **Teaching/Learning 21** **st**  **Century** || **Our Proposed Innovations** ||
 * Teacher-centered, fragmented curriculum, students working in isolation, memorizing facts. || Students participate in field studies through real-life, relevant, project-based 21 st  century education. || Students engage in the study of marine environments and perform inquiry-based laboratory activities – record activities with digital video cameras, perform on-site research or note-taking with electronic tablets, communicate via medium of their choosing. ||
 * Memorization of discrete facts – low level Bloom’s Taxonomy Learning by lecture || Application of knowledge – high level Bloom’s Taxonomy Constructing own knowledge || Students generate questions, form hypotheses and use student-collected data along with extensive databanks from Project O and enter information in an electronic chart, create related graphs, analyze the information and communicate their knowledge on the collaborative web site and electronic portfolios. ||
 * Textbook-driven || Digital resources available as appropriate || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mobile laptop lab and tablets are available for students to research, compose, and analyze information. Wireless technology enables them to work in their environment. ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Learners work in isolation – classroom within 4 walls || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Learners work collaboratively with classmates and others – share with the Global Classroom || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students meet with school partners at each other’s schools. Field experts serve as career role models. Sites include: water treatment facility, waste water treatment facility, fish lift, hydroelectric plant, and various mill sites related to the LIS watershed. Online community adds to the global classroom environment ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Teacher-centered: teacher is center of attention and provider of information || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Student-centered: teacher is facilitator/coach. || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Student teams conduct a field study of the beach/marsh/rocky intertidal zones and document on site using appropriate technology.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Prescribe focus – everyone’s outcome the same || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Taps into multiple intelligences and individual abilities || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Electronic portfolios document student growth. Students tap into individual strengths and address weakness. Capstone ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Little intrinsic student motivation. || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students and teachers have mutually respectful relationship as co-learners; students are highly motivated. || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Teachers integrate interactive whiteboards in the delivery of lesson content, use student response systems to determine comprehension and modify lessons based on feedback. New technologies motivate and excite students toward high achievement. ||