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Learners will:
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- Choose among a number of models for
school improvement and increased
student achievement and explain and
justify their choices.
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- Organize and present evidence that
demonstrates their progress toward the
accomplishment of school change and
improved teaching/learning in the
classroom.
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- Review and assess a wide variety of
innovative learning enhancement
strategies to use in middle school and
secondary classrooms.
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- Use electronic information
technologies such as the internet and
electronic media in order to understand
the inter-relationship of disciplines,
the expanding nature of human
knowledge, and the various elements
necessary to accomplish school
improvement and increased student
achievement.
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- Use computers to connect with other
people and places in order to become a
member of an ever-expanding electronic
community of learners.
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- Search and choose resources to
assist them in the implementation of
the following
Eight Critical
Areas of School Change: (author) Maggie
Szabo
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1. Purpose of
Schooling—(to change school
from an institution that sorts and
selects to an institution that
develops all students).
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2. The
Definition of Knowledge—(to
change the notion that knowledge is
a sacred body of information to the
notion that knowledge is
meaning-making and problem solving)
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3. The Nature
of Learning—(to change the
picture of the learner from that of
a passive receiver of knowledge to a
learner who is active, who is a
decision-maker, and who is a
reflector on his or her own learning
process)
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4. An
Understanding of Good
Teaching—(to change the
definition as teaching which is
"good telling" to teaching that is
collaborative, creative, and
intentional)
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5.
Curriculum—(to change
the notion that curriculum is
text-driven with "coverage" as a
necessary goal to the notion that
curriculum is clearly defined
outcomes that have the
student’s learning needs as a
central goal)
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6.
Leadership—(to change
hierarchical leadership models to an
establishment of transformational
leadership in which teachers are
leaders inside and outside of the
classroom)
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7. Decision
Making—(to change from
top-down decision making by
administrative edict to decision
making that is shared)
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8.
Accountability/Assessment—(to
change from input indicators
supported by inspection to output
indicators supported by learner
outcomes)
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