Reading_Materials_for+_Rigor_and_Relevance

__Questions to ponder as you look through these resources__: //What will the world look like 20 years from now? Think about a child you know and visualize that child in the world 20 years from now. Given your answer, what skills will that child need 20 years from now? Think about a time in your life when you were really learning. What were the conditions that influenced your learning? What should a learning environment today look like?//

//" I did not enjoy education but I enjoyed learning, being in class, listening to teachers talk to us about our world, and participating in discussions (in our continuing efforts to get the teacher off the subject). I had some outstanding teachers, who loved their work, and who were magnificent lenses for us on the world that we lived in. I decided early on, that this was what I wanted to do"// David Warlick Read David's blog... [|Measures for Success]

Learn more about rigor and relevance by using the following charts.

Are you using instructional strategies that have proven to be successful? [|Marzano Nine Essential Instructional Strategies]

Viste PDE's Standards Aligned Professional Community. PDE is creating a learning community for all disciplines - looking at "big ideas" and teaching to essential questions. To date, Math is complete. There are some excellent examples of teaching to essential questions - questions that can drive instruction and help to promote understanding relative to concepts and relationships between ideas. [|PDE Standards Aligned Professional Community]

The Partnership for 21st Century Skills has developed a unified, collective vision for 21st century learning that can be used to strengthen American education. The key elements of 21st century learning are represented in an easy to understand graph with descriptions below. [|Partnership for 21st Century Skills]

Oracle has developed a global community for learning. [|Oracle - A partner with the 21st Century Learning Partnership]

Articles [|Algebra in the Real World]