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Helping With the Change
A shift to the 21st century learning model actually marks a significant transformation in the role of teachers. To promote this evolution, things like teacher performance appraisals, mentoring programs, and the role of instructional coaches need to change as well. c21learning can provide guidance on these changes.
Curriculum Development and Long Range Planning
c21learning can prepare detailed long range plans and curriculum grounded in the experiential, student-led model for teachers to use as a guideline to develop their own lessons and units or to use as standalone work. This could include learning skills tracking, formative and summative assessments for cross-curricular work, pre-made templates, student choice and differentiation, and step-by-step instructions for educators.
Support for the Most Vulnerable Students
Students who are not attending, not engaged, and not completing any work still deserve a fair chance, a second chance to find success.
Our scaffolded approach to student-led learning provides on-ramps for vulnerable students to first find success on their terms and then build on this success towards an eventual reintegration into the regular classroom.
Think of this like a virtual alternate program that is very quick to implement, keeps the students at their home site, has very little increased costs, and will work alongside their regular education program on very flexible and individual timelines.
c21learning can help you get started on a program like this in your board or individual school sites.
A Focus on Math
Math is unlike other subjects in that it requires both content and skills development. Students need to develop a “Math Tool Kit” which is the content learning but they also need to be asked to use those tools to solve real-life, experiential math problems. This is one of my specialties and c21learning can help school boards, schools and teachers find this balance and create math programs that improve student outcomes and make learning math relevant and fun.
The Scope and Sequence
Nothing is more important than long range planning and helping educators work backwards from long range plans to monthly and even weekly lesson ideas that all fit together. With a scope and sequence for numeracy (and other key subject areas), school boards have long range plans, lesson ideas, resources, assessments and experiential learning options in place for a full year of student success.
And teachers can focus on working with students instead of non-stop planning and resource acquisition.
More Kids, More Options for Post Secondary Education
Imagine a school board where students in grade 3 started learning how to learn on their own, building strong learning skills, developing their own learning styles, and confidence in their learning…and then building on these skills every year until the end of grade 9. A school board with the experiential, student-led model in place from primary to secondary will have more, and a more diverse group of students taking university-bound high school courses.
Building Confidence in Students
This is so crucial to student success and when students can guide their own learning, at their pace and level and at times and places that work for them they find success. This success builds confidence and this confidence spills over into other aspects of the school experience.
Finding The Best Learning Style
We all learn in slightly different ways. When students begin to learn on their own and learn how to learn through student-led work, they begin to see how they learn best. That same student can then improve their learning in every other aspect of the school day, including teacher-directed times.
Classroom Management
Work not at the student’s level (too hard, too easy), lack of engagement, lessons that do not connect with student life, teachers set up as authority figures to push back against…these are all precursors to classroom management issues. The experiential, student-led model addresses all of these challenges head-on as differentiation, engagement, and a student-centered approach are built in.
Connecting with Students
For Schools
Professional Development for Educators
c21learning offers a range of professional development options focused on experiential, student-led models and the cultivation of critical and creative thinking skills. Our offerings cater to the unique needs of school sites, whether it’s through brief staff meeting check-ins or multi-day sessions.
Co-Teaching Options
The best professional development is always working with another teacher to learn new and better ways to get all kids learning. I offer the opportunity for teachers at your site to co-plan and then co-teach experiential, student-led lessons with me. This is a great way to get the ball rolling toward the 21st century learning model.
Connecting with Students
For Teachers
One on One Coaching
Moving to the 21st century learning model benefits everyone in the classroom, including educators. I like to call it the “Good Life” for teachers, with student success at the forefront. c21learning offers one-on-one coaching sessions throughout the year to help you embark on this transition, one success at a time.
Building Lessons and Units of Study
c21learning has pre-built experiential units but by far the most powerful teaching materials are lessons and units of study designed by the educator for their specific school and community.
I can help you get started on building your own experiential, student-led material and then you can take it from there.
This Is Big!
Experiential, student-led work builds content knowledge but, more importantly, builds the learning skills needed for success in every other part of education. This is one reason all aspects of the classroom improve when even a small part of the week is spent moving toward the 21st-century learning model.
The Name of the Game
When students can guide their own learning and learn through real-life experiences they are much more engaged. When students have an opportunity to learn in this way, they become more engaged in every other aspect of the classroom experience.
Equity
Not all students are at their best in a teacher-directed classroom. To meet the needs of a diverse student body, schools need to offer more than just one way for students to learn and excel. The 21st-century learning model we promote provides a variety of avenues for student engagement and learning, ensuring that every student in the room can find success.
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