Trends in Education

PLC= Professional Learning Community

Cooperative Learning!

Ongoing process where teachers work collaboratively to enhance student learning.
-Shared values and vision
- Collaborative Culture
- Focus on examining outcomes to improve learning
- Share teaching styles

Issues
  - Struggling students fall behind
  - Whole class falls behind

Solution
  -Raise awareness of student learning abilities
  - Address students learning immediately
  - Require students to get help rather than ask them to get help
  - Collaborate with teachers to help students

-Outside contexts of the classroom
- Improve classroom environment
- Individually analysis student progress
- Converse frequently
- Find a will
- Data Driven
- Bad data is still data
- Compare data and respond (see what works and what doesn't work)
- Discuss student learning as teams
- Practice tests
- Formal assessment
- Don't isolate yourself, converse with other teachers and find a solution to help students
- Understand standards



RTI= Response to Intervention

On-going student assessment
- 3 Tiered program

    Tier 1: Core instructions

    Tier 2: Targeted Group Interventions

    Tier 3: Intense, Individual Interventions

    Parental Involvement

My role as the art teacher is to know what Tier they are on and have knowledge of my students! Art is just a small part of what I do, the real responsibility is for my students to succeed in school. 


PBIS= Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports

Also known as SWPBIS= School Wide PBIS


4 Categories:
- Data
- Measurable Outcomes
- Practices
- Systems

All Evidence Based

Constant routines

Reward Systems

Know your students, know what tier they are on.

Responsive classroom

- Fun activities called morning meetings to get to know each other and our students



UBD= Understanding by Design

- Focus on curriculum and teaching to develop students understanding.
- UBD promotes a "backward" design process that begins with identifying the enduring understandings that students should carry from the class.

1. Focus on what you want your students to learn
2. how can you assess the project
3. have a project that shows the outcome.


Common Core State Standards

Race to the top



UDL= Universal Design for Learning

- Curriculum that can be used and understood by everyone
- Studies ...?

Three Principes of UDL
1. Recognition the "what" of learning
  - Provide options for student engagement
2. Skill and strategy the "How" of learning
   - Provide options for students
3. Caring and Prioritizing the "Why" of learning
   - Provide options for student engagement