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Traditional 20th Century School
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21st Century Enriched Learning School
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| STANDARDS AND INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGY |
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Lowest common denominator content standards for promoting information recall
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Best practice, world-class 21st century standards that include use of technology
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Multiple models of instruction, including Concept Development, Strategic Thinking and Problem Solving, Contextual Learning, and Mediated Learning
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Linear instruction model with emphasis on student listening, memorizing, and repeating of facts in a segmented curriculum
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Inquiry-based Instruction with emphasis on student learning-from-doing, investigating, and solving problems
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Explicit development of critical thinking, collaboration, creativity and innovation, and communication skills across the entire curriculum
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Highlighted mathematical and scientific thinking with integrated focus on critical reading in all content areas
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Piecemeal innovations to improve information acquisition
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Cognitive abilities developed via Feuerstein’s Instrumental Enrichment
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| CURRICULUM |
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Basic skills curriculum of the 1950s
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World-class knowledge standards guide curriculum with integration of prerequisite skills for success in the 21st century.
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Motivates and champions student innovation
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Integrates themes of global economic and environmental awareness, leadership and responsibility, health, innovation and technology, information management, and financial literacy
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Textbooks set parameters and direction for each course
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Textbook and on-line resources provide information for enriched projects
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Project-based collaboration across the curriculum to develop student’s critical and creative thinking, intrinsic task motivation, and mastery of mathematics, science and other key literacies
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Technology limited to information tutorials
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Digital tools enrich thinking and learning across the curriculum
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| INFRASTRUCTURE |
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Closed, uniform classroom spaces; fixed time schedule
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Various-sized classroom spaces to best address specific subject or instructional strategies; asymmetrical schedule
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Learning environment that fosters creative 21st century instruction and promotes higher order thinking and collaborative efforts to solve problems
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| STUDENT EVALUATION |
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Recall tests
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Multiple forms of assessment aligned with content and process performance
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| LEADERSHIP |
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Principal as chief expert of school
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Shared leadership and expertise encouraged and developed
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| PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND TEACHER ROLE |
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Limited, erratic, and unaligned professional development
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Intense professional development aligned with enriched learning goals in a community of learners focused on school improvement
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Each teacher acquires own courses and degrees for personal improvement
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Teacher as conduit between content and learner
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Teacher as mediator to enable enhanced problem-solving and critical thinking
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| SPECIAL NEEDS PHILOSOPHY |
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Student labeled by diagnosis
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Dynamic assessment of learning potential with active integration of children with Special Needs into all classes and activities
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Passive acceptance of identified learning challenges and modification of learning opportunities
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Preparation of all teachers to mediate learning of students with Special Needs
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