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Closing The Global Achievement Gap:
Transformative 21st century education
Jonathan Martin
Head of School
St. Gregory College Preparatory School
A Year in My Life2008
• A blog project: 21st century education, 21 schools, 60 books
• What Students need to Learn
• How best can they Learn it.
The 21st century challenge
• Outsourcing• Abundance• Automation• Internet Information
Tony Wagner, The Global Achievement Gap
• Our High School Students are not learning what they need to learn
• We need new expectations, new measurements, & new learning environments
Defining a 21st century education
The Skills our Students Require
Serious about Skills (and Knowledge)
Tony Wagner, The Global Achievement Gap
Seven Survival Skills• 1. Critical Thinking and Problem Solving• 2. Collaboration Across Networks and Leading by Influence • 3. Agility and Adaptability• 4. Initiative and Entrepreneurship • 5. Effective Oral and Written Communication• 6. Accessing and Analyzing Information• 7. Curiosity and Imagination
Ultimately?
Leadership and effective collaboration
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Inquisitiveness, Innovation and Creativity
Real-World Problem solving
Shadow-Blogging 21 High Schools
Wagner: The important question is what’s going on in classrooms?
In order to really understand what’s happening in classrooms,
you need to observe teaching and learning in lots of schools.
Active, Engaged, Learning
Students Learn Best by DoingMore than ever today, Kids
expect to be engaged and creative doers in school.
They are inspired most by real world problems, and they learn most when tackling complex problems
Our classrooms must be laboratories and studios where students inquire, test, experiment, and produce.
Active, Engaged Learning
From Douglass Reeves:
We need classrooms which feature:
• problem solving rather than recitation,
• collaboration rather than isolation,
• creativity rather than regurgitation, and
• critical analysis rather than memorization,
How Transform our Schools?
By Measuring the Right Outcomes…
and Taking our Results Seriously
Conventional Academic Measurement
• SAT Scores• Grade level standardized testing
results• AP Scores: St. Gregory student
Arizona AP Scholar
• But not alone! “Life is not a multiple choice test,” and we need students to recognize that “the most important skill in the New World of Work is the ability to ask the right question, not select the right answer.”
Measure Higher Order Thinking Skills
• Rand Corp. designed • 300 Colleges• OECD adoption• Critical thinking• Analytic Reasoning• Written Communication• Problem-Solving
College Completion
The Million Dollar Difference
Student Engagement
Classwork 1
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Ask or answerquestions in class
Talked to teacherabout classwork
Written paper morethan 5 pages
Received helpfulfeedback onassignments
Discussed questionswith no clear answer
STG Often
All Schools Often
Reporting to Students on Goals beyond Grades
• Effort and Perseverance Habits• Integrity• Leadership Skills• Communication Skills• Thinking Skills: Critical, Analytic, and Inquisitive• Innovation Skills• Complex, real-world, problem-solving skills
Publishing and Presenting
• Old fashioned Science Experiments
• Academic and Technological Contests and Competitions
• Blogging and websites• Learning evaluated by
outside of school notice, feedback, and appreciation
Tony Wagner, Speaking at St. Gregory
7:00pm, March 31Free and Open to Public
RSVP at stgregoryschool.org
www.21k12blog.net
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