Building a Successful Classroom
"Incorporating all three of these areas within a classroom will create a conducive environment to learning, teaching, and success. If all three of these areas can be incorporated into each lesson of each day, then being evaluated by APPR will simply be an afterthought, as everything you will be evaluated on is already incorporated into your teaching" ~J. Falanga
Cognitive Engagement
Cognitive Engagement is a prerequisite for student learning. The engaged student not only attends to built-in procedures of instruction but also interacts with the content of the lesson in a deep and thoughtful way.
Teachers
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Students
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Constructivist Learning
This concept states that learning takes place when learners restructure knowledge and are able to apply that to new learning situations they have not yet explored.
Constructionist Learning:
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21st Century Skills
For the 21st Century students must have ways of acquiring and knowing information from vast knowledge bases. The skills and knowledge need to be integrated and not separate.
Some 21st Century skills are:
Teacher strategies for the 21st Century should include:
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