Collaboration Coaches

The report advocates that a culture shift to a learner centered classroom environment is needed to prepare students to meet the challenges and demands of a global economy, that: 1) Learning needs to be rigorous and based on college and career-ready expectations. 2) Learning is personalized. 3) Learning is collaborative, relevant, and applied. 4) Learning is flexible, taking place anytime, anywhere

1) Effective teachers have always created a learner centered environment.

2) We need meaningful publisher and teacher collaboration

Engage the class using any device Socrative is a smart student response system that empowers teachers to engage their classrooms through a series of educational exercises and games via smartphones, laptops, and tablets.

Inherent Skills: Global Empathy Questioning Problem Solving Creativity and Innovative Thinking Self-direction

Explicit Skills: Critical Thinking Global Communication Collaboration Information Literacy Information Management Media/Technology Literac

“Maximizing the Common Core involves a change in creativity, critical thinking, and a fundamental shift in relationships. It is where the role of the teacher becomes more essential than ever, as students develop their capacity to question, discover, connect, collaborate and contribute on a global scale, and where they are empowered by an increase in direction and management of their own learning.”

Teaching students research skills is becoming increasingly important. Some refer to the filtering and critical evaluation of information as ‘web literacy’

Flipping Blooms — putting Creating, Evaluating, Analyzing and Applying first — also works in English.  From what I can tell, it’s likely the easiest route to creating a flipped English classroom. In the past, I’ve struggled to teach my students concepts such as grammar rules and abstract ideas like voice. Flipping Blooms makes this much easier.

One collaborative teacher team (two or more individuals) nominated for the award will win. The award honors extraordinary efforts and contributions to a school and classroom. In addition to $10,000, this team will receive a $200 credit to purchase Solution Tree materials for their school, along with two free registrations ($1,398 value) to authorspeak 2012 and recognition at the closing session. Nominees will demonstrate: Commitment and dedication to collaboration and innovation Active leadership and dedication to continuous improvement Contributions to the advancement of instructional best practices

e)defining Excellence in the School Award

)defining Excellence in the District Award