This week I have spent a lot of time researching how we
should design and change our current structure of the high school education
delivery from the industrial model to a 21st century model. If you
have been reading my blog, you know that this year we went to a one to one iPad
program with students. The next step for us to fully utilize this tool for
education is to evaluate our current deliver model.
What I envision for our students is more of an open
structured campus that will allow students and teachers to meet and work in
both small and large group settings in a new more applied curriculum where
students need to apply knowledge to real world problems. After reviewing a
number of journals, videos, and papers on this topic, I have developed several
questions that will need additional research.
1.
Most of the research alludes to project based
learning that incorporates inter-disciplinary units. This requires teachers to
ask higher thinking, critical thinking, and guiding questions for students to
discover their own learning. What types of professional development do we need
for teachers to make this transition from delivering content to facilitators of
knowledge?
2.
To facilitate the type of educational model
necessary, traditional bell schedules and sorting of students is not going to
be practical. How do you develop a master schedule that supports learning in
this type of environment?
3.
Changing from the traditional model, how do you
design a model utilizing a building built in the early part of the 1900’s?
4.
How do you change the expectations of your
community, parents, teachers, and leaders to support making the dramatic
changing that you envision as the future of education?
I think everyone in education realizes the professional
development, professional learning communities, and inclusion of teachers in
planning is critical to success of any change. But how do we realistically change
the entire industrial education model to a 21st century model
quickly and efficiently?
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