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New Learning: Characteristics Of An Innovative Classroom


by Terry Heick

Earlier than the concepts, let me preface this by acknowledging that many of those–if not most–aren’t possible in most lecture rooms and colleges.

I taught for years and tried to shoehorn concepts like this into my educating, and it was rewarding however exhausting and finally resulted in my changing into a pariah in my very own college/district. I didn’t intend on ‘not being a group participant,’ however that’s precisely how concepts like these look to–effectively, to some folks. I’ll go away it at that. (See additionally Teaching Disruptively.)

Since I’m not going to clarify how one can accomplish these sorts of shifts (that’d be a e book), although, I do seek advice from a number of the posts I’ve created over time that elaborate on a few of these concepts. The aim of this put up, then, is to vaguely sketch the doable traits of an revolutionary classroom.

You could disagree strongly with each single one, and that’s okay. These are all opinions and while you, as an educator, try to assist the scholars in your classroom develop, they could have wants that take priority over these–fundamental studying expertise, pupil group expertise, classroom administration, and so on. I get it. I solely wish to contribute to the dialog of how we would finally exchange lecture rooms the place its ‘administration’ is the first concern.

See Additionally The Elements Of A Literacy-Rich Classroom Environment

The large thought? Transferring the dialog from innovation for the sake of showing revolutionary to innovation that’s sustainable, centered round folks and communities, at a scale that really works.

The Shifts And Traits Of An Modern Classroom

From Content material to Thought (see additionally Are You Teaching Content Or Are You Teaching Thought?)

From Strain to Sustainability (See additionally the Agrarian Learning Model.)

From Letter Grades to Microgrades (See additionally How Gamification Can Uncover The Nuance Of The Learning Process.)

From Data to Folks

From Pressured Collaboration to Interdependence

From Certainty to Uncertainty (See additionally How To Teach For Knowledge Through Humility.)

From Direct Instruction to Inquiry (See additionally Alternatives To Lecturing In The Classroom.)

From Testing to A Local weather of Evaluation (See additionally 50 Formative Assessment Strategies.)

From Replication to Creation

From Huge to Small

From Rows to Studying Areas

From Linear to Spiraling (See additionally Learning Is Not Linear. Why Is Curriculum?

From Directors To Leaders

From Trainer-Led to Pupil-Pushed

From Faculties to Communities (See additionally The Characteristics Of A Good School.)

From Labels to Concepts

From Mastery to Citizenship (See additionally Examples Of Digital Citizenship.)

From Course to Navigation

From Formality to Fluidity

From Standing Quo to Disruption (See additionally How Disruption Causes Lasting Change In Education.)

From Stability to Mobility (See additionally 12 Principles Of Mobile Learning.)

From Certification to Utility

From School rooms to Networks

From Tutorial Literacy to Essential Literacy (See additionally The Relationship Between Reading And Critical Literacy.)

From Prompting to Pupil-Initiated Switch (See additionally Showing What They Know: Categories Of Cognitive Transfer.)

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