21st Century Strands & Strategies
Chapter: Introduction
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The strategies under the Military Support strand are:
1.
The Child
2.
The Family
3.
The Community
Pedagogical Strands
The pedagogical strands focus on teaching and learning,
and have been designed to set the stage to build a safe,
rigorous, risk-free learning environment for all military-
connected students. The strands have been carefully
crafted to support and promote a student-centered
approach to teaching and learning, which strives to
ensure that every child meets his or her fullest potential in
all content areas. Each of the pedagogical strands has
specific strategies that support the strand. Technology is
interwoven throughout each of these strands and serves as a strand on its own to
support best practices in teaching and learning in the 21st Century.
The pedagogical strands include:
1.
The Learning Environment
2.
Student Centered Instruction
3.
Curriculum Integration
4.
Technology Integration
Leadership Strand
One of the six strands focuses on leadership in
a 21st Century environment. As collaboration
is a critical 21st Century skills, this strand
focuses on developing a “shared leadership”
approach. While emphasizing collaboration,
the leadership strand also offers educational
leaders, to include classroom educators, to
leadership skills to support and build/develop DoDEA’s mission, to “Educate, Engage,
and Empower Each student to succeed in a dynamic world.”
The strategies under the Shared Leadership strand are:
1.
Administrative Leadership
2.
Teacher Leadership
3.
Student Leadership
