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The 21st Century Classroom

21st Century Learning
Instruction in the 21st Century Classroom

Higher Order Thinking Skills

Open-Ended and Closed-Ended Questions

What is 21st Century Mathematics?

What is the Collaborative Classroom?
Learning Point Associatiates

What is Think-Pair-Share?

Why Consider Collaborative Writing?

Collaborative Writing

Literature Circles
Seattle University

Literature Circles
Teachers.Net

The Making of a 21st Century Educator
Harvard Graduate School of Education

Bloom's Taxonomy
A one-page chart

Marzano's Dimensions of Learning Model
1. Instruction must reflect the best of what we know about how learning occurs.
2. Learning involves a complex system of interactive processes that include various types of thinking, represented by the five dimensions: Attitudes and Perceptions, Acquire and Integrate Knowledge, Extend and Refine Knowledge, Use Knowledge Meaningfully, and Habits of Mind
3. Curriculum programs should include the explicit teaching of attitudes, perceptions, and mental habits that facilitate learning.
4. A comprehensive approach to instruction includes both teacher-directed and student-direction instruction.
5. Assessment should focus on student's use of knowledge and complex reasoning processes rather than on their recall of information.

Marzano's Instructional Strategies
Cherry Creek School District, Colorado

Describing 16 Habits of Mind by Arthur L. Costa, Ed.D. and Bena Kallick, Ph.D.
A 14-page article

Backward Design: A Unit and Lesson Plan Development Model That Integrates Curriculum, Assessment, and Instruction
A 7-page pdf that summarizes Understanding by Design by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe

What is Backward Design?
Chapter 1 of Understanding by Design by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe

Edgar Dale's Cone of Learning

Project-Based Learning
An 9-minute video overview at Edutopia

Problem-Based Learning
What is it? How do I do it?

The Pedagogy of Poverty Versus Good Teaching by Martin Haberman
An 8-page article

"Overcoming a Pedagogy of Poverty" by Helen Hodges in More Strategies for Educating Everybody's Children by Robert Cole
A chart summary comparison

U.S. Dept. of Ed. Online Workshops - Teacher-to-Teacher Initiative
(PowerPoints and Handouts from 107 Workshop Sessions)

Emerging Perspectives on Learning, Teaching, and Technology
Links to summaries of Learning Theories, Instructional Models, and Strategies

WVDE Teach21 Blog

WVDE Teach21 Wiki

WVDE K12 Education Blogs

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