Today is not about math anxiety but about education
20th Century Classroom vs. the 21st
Century Classroom
Time-based
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Outcome-based
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Focus: memorization of discrete facts
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Focus: what students Know, Can Do and
Are Like after all the details are forgotten.
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Lessons focus on the lower level of Bloom’s
Taxonomy – knowledge, comprehension and application.
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Learning is designed on upper levels of
Blooms’ – synthesis, analysis and evaluation (and include lower levels as
curriculum is designed down from the top.)
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Textbook-driven
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Research-driven
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Passive learning
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Active Learning
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Learners work in isolation – classroom within
4 walls
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Learners work collaboratively with classmates
and others around the world – the Global Classroom
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Teacher-centered: teacher is center of
attention and provider of information
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Student-centered: teacher is
facilitator/coach
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Little to no student freedom
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Great deal of student freedom
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“Discipline problems" – educators do not
trust students and vice versa. No student motivation.
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No “discipline problems” – students and
teachers have mutually respectful relationship as co-learners; students are
highly motivated.
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Fragmented curriculum
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Integrated and Interdisciplinary curriculum
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Grades averaged
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Grades based on what was learned
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Low expectations
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High expectations – “If it isn’t good it isn’t
done.” We expect, and ensure, that all students succeed in learning at
high levels. Some may go higher – we get out of their way to let them
do that.
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Teacher is judge. No one else sees student
work.
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Self, Peer and Other assessments. Public
audience, authentic assessments.
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Curriculum/School is irrelevant and
meaningless to the students.
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Curriculum is connected to students’
interests, experiences, talents and the real world.
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Print is the primary vehicle of learning and
assessment.
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Performances, projects and multiple forms of
media are used for learning and assessment
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Diversity in students is ignored.
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Curriculum and instruction address student
diversity
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Literacy is the 3 R’s – reading, writing and
math
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Multiple literacies of the 21st
century – aligned to living and working in a globalized new millennium.
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Factory model, based upon the needs of
employers for the Industrial Age of the 19th century. Scientific
management.
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Global model, based upon the needs of a
globalized, high-tech society.
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Driven by the NCLB and standardized testing
mania.
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Standardized testing has its place.
Education is not driven by the NCLB and standardized testing mania.
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