GIOIE

Govenor's Institute on Innovation in Education was held at Penn State from December 17-19, 2007.

Using School Leader Development Building 21st Century Schools Software groups worked on a challenge.

Using the Macon High School example:

Some key assumptions about what students need to learn for the 21st century that were stressed at Macon dealt with: --remember facts --experiments or "projects" that reinforced the facts or what the student knew Alternative assumptions and strategies that Macon needs to adopt to help all of its students succeed are: --project-based learning --differentiated instruction --student-guided learning --student ability to locate information from a variety of resources --have students choose how they will deliver the information/project --projects that may not have a clear "end result" to enable the students to learn through "experimentation" --alternative assessment strategies --realize that learning can be "unstructured" and "loud"

After reflection regarding the Macon example:

Macon dealt with: --Cross-curricular skills emphasized--leadership, citizenship, etc. --Also, the love of learning is important. Life-long learning is important due to the fact that schools are preparing students to use technology that does not exist for jobs that do not exist to solve problems that we do not know exist. Macon needs to: --Need a clear vision on what we are trying to teach and why. --Formal education needs to support self-directed learning. --An important goal for education is to help students become adaptive experts. Students will retain important facts, but remain flexible and give up their old way of doing things. --Adaptive Expertise--Balance between efficiency and innovation. --When it comes to problem solving and comprehesion, efficiency is aided by conceptual schemas. Schematized knowledge helps us understand and make inferences and that makes us more efficient. --Help students adapt to new situations rather than only apply what they have learned. --The process of letting go of assumptions helps to define a new learning space. --Efficiency from previous learning often make innovation possible. --Many students lack the humility to be life long learners. --Effective teaching is a creative act. --Teachers also need to become adaptive experts.

This CD is available to school's for free. It was important to not that the listing of what makes a teacher an adaptive expert is nothing new. However, why are we not changing how we instruct if we are adaptive experts and believe in the concept. School districts should contact their local IU to get a facilitator and enough CD for everyone they feel would benefit from the learning CD.

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Schools were to display Best Practices example from their school. My display included our technology workshop and mentoring programs in the Nazareth School District. I received some excellent handouts:

Apollo Ridge Graudation Project Armstrong Couty Forum for Workforce Excellence Chartiers Valley School District Community Resource Directory Pamphlet LCTI Career Education & Work Pamphlet McDowell Senior High School Community Connections Internship Program Pamphlet Millcreek Township School District's Project 720 Initiatives North Hills School District"s Back-to-School Newletter Edition, Annual Report; Ross Township Magazine; 11th Grade Reading and Math Assessment Anchor Handbooks Oxford Area High School High School Reform through Project 720 PowerPoint Phillipsburg-Osceola Area School District Utilizing Instructional Software Pamphlet Spring Grove Area High School Differentiated Instruction Newsletter

Many, many others--will list later--