21st Century Strands & Strategies
Chapter: Strands & Strategies: Deep Dive
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Connections
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Sharing ideas about your discipline and teaching with enthusiastic colleagues
with a common goal.
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Common learning goals are addressed by multiple teachers in different classes –
more efficient way to teach, increased student success.
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Seeing one’s own discipline from a fresh and energizing perspective - builds
excitement about teaching.
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Opportunity to learn from students’ sometimes unexpected interdisciplinary
connections.
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Students see teachers’ model continued learning, interest in their discipline and
in those of others, collaborating with peers, making connections between what
they know and new ideas, working from new and different perspectives,
problem-solving, creativity, flexibility.
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Real-world learning, not isolated educational experiences
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More opportunities for students to connect new learning with what they know
and are interested in.
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Provides more ways for students to learn and demonstrate their skills and
understandings.
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Highlights students’ strengths; builds confidence to overcome challenges
learning new/difficult concepts.
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Encourages students to become personally invested in their work (since they are
given the privilege and responsibility of making choices about what and how
they learn and demonstrate their learning).
