«April is an example of what excellent teaching, high expectations for all students, and
classroom innovation looks like in our district,» said Smalley.
Not exact matches
Where possible, schools should be
looking to embrace such
innovations in the
classroom to reengage their pupils.
It is a matter of
looking at sustainable engagement and motivation with a new perspective because engaging in education online has similarities to the training area in a business organization or the brick and mortar school
classroom, but the online environment is not the same in that the boundaries of collaboration,
innovation, and creativity are global and immediate in nature.
Richard Wells (@iPadWells)
looks at how online
innovations like Quad - blogging (that hooks up students in multiple
classrooms, who then write for each other) can help improve students» desire to learn and their writing skills.
Surely, technology is going to play a greater role in the
classroom as we integrate STEM into a more uni ed curriculum, but what this actually
looks like is going to be defined largely by the
innovations of today's critical thinkers.
The idea here is to let teachers get into each other's
classrooms to see
innovation happening, and the goal There is lots written about
looking and student work and instructional rounds, and we can share resources with you, but the main ideas here is that we need to help teams that are engaged in new practices figure out how to make sense of them.
We are
looking for case studies, program descriptions, and
classroom examples as well as results and research that show how a particular
innovation works.
Real
innovation in a
classroom comes from human beings working with human beings, from teachers engaged in the countless, minute - to - minute adjustments that teaching requires, teachers adapting their styles and methods to the moment, as they can in small classes — this is what
innovation looks like, what personalized education
looks like.
As an early stage investor, we are curious about promising
innovations like adding SEL to
classroom instruction, and we are also
looking for early signals of impact and effectiveness.