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By: Colleen AndersonCreated at: www.Toondoo.com

Objectives

To review Teaching for Understanding, Rigor and Relevance, and Assessment for Learning

To introduce Student-centered Classrooms and Teaching for Learner Differences

Teaching for

Understanding

Assessment

for

Learning

Rigor

and

Relevance

Characteristics of Effective Instruction

Student-centered Classrooms

Teaching for Learner Differences

Student-centered

Classrooms

Teaching for

Learner

Differences

Creating Learner-Centered Classrooms: Dreams and Practices

Directions:1. See Student-centered Classrooms and Teaching for Learner

Differences handouts.

2. In the article, Creating Learner-Centered Classrooms: Dreams and Practices, read to the end of the first paragraph on the page two.

3. Record connections you make between the article and the details around Student-centered Classrooms and Teaching for Learner Differences.

4. Share your connections with your Leadership Team.

5. Identify a reporter to share out the connections.

“…it is necessary to go deeper and address the most important condition for successful school reform, namely, the quality of classroom instruction.”

Breakthrough

Fullan, Hill, and Crevola , 2006