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 Back To Module ListModule Main | Module Description | Instructional Outcomes | Instructional Proficiencies | Instructional EventsFacilitating Positive Attitudes Toward Collaborative Change: Module One Author Anita L. DeBoer, ED.D., Ball State UniversityTask for Completion and Discussion #6 As our world and our school environments change, so must we, as educators, change our roles and responsibilities to meet the needs of our changing populations. The following are some of the new responsibilities we are likely to face in the next decade:
___ Selecting and designing educational outcomes, goals, objectives, standards, and assessment tools.
___ Teaching how and where to access information that students will need to have in order to complete real-world projects.
___ Designing engaging (interesting and challenging) work with students, not for them.
___ Designing units of study around big ideas such as space travel. This allows for a number of entry points in the curriculum given the various levels of student readiness.
___ Facilitating discussion and problem solving with the information students have gathered to date that pushes them to the highest level of thinking: analyzing, synthesizing, questioning, generalizing, and making judgments about their learning.
___ Teaching and monitoring educational outcomes that focus on areas such as problem solving, decision making, interpersonal skills, initiative and adaptability, leadership and team skills, personal and civic responsibility. Traditional subject-area knowledge such as Science and English is integrated in these areas.
___ Helping students design methods for self-monitoring and self-evaluating their progress through the use of technology, portfolios, rubrics (benchmarks), projects, and sophisticated data-management procedures. As a result, letter grading (as it has been traditionally done) is no longer necessary. The focus is on monitoring one’s progress towards the standard.
___ Counseling, coaching, and problem solving with students in social/emotional areas, e.g., getting and keeping friends, giving and accepting feedback, and managing anger.
Task for Completion and Discussion #6
Reread the changing roles of educators listed above and then check the ones that you are currently doing in your school. Next, identify two role changes that you believe are necessary during these changing times, and why you believe that. Are there any additional changes you are experiencing or are anticipating that you could add to this list? |