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Teachers

Core Subjects || 21st Century Context ||  21st Century Content  || Learning Skills || Learning Skills || Learning Tools || Assessment || Pedagogy/  Professional Development || Students master core subjects in a contemporary context.  Instruction always includes content in a contemporary context through the incorporation of relevant examples, applications and settings.  Extensive contemporary content is available and used by students, including global awareness, civic and business literacy.  Where applicable, schools create 21st century content that is relevant to the economic needs of their region, such as biotechnology, manufacturing or agricultural technology. |||||| Educational objectives and teaching strategies emphasize the integration of learning skills and 21st century tools, which comprises information, communication and technology (ICT) literacy.  <span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: 'BankGothic Md BT','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Minion-Regular;">Learning skills and 21st century tools are used together to enable students to effectively build content knowledge. <span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: 'BankGothic Md BT','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Minion-Regular;"> <span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: 'BankGothic Md BT','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Minion-Regular;">Through integrating learning skills and 21st century tools, students are able to do such things as access and <span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: 'BankGothic Md BT','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Minion-Regular;">communicate information, manage complexity, solve problems and think critically and creatively. <span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: 'BankGothic Md BT','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Minion-Regular;"> <span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: 'BankGothic Md BT','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Minion-Regular;">100% of students have access to 21st century tools. <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'BankGothic Md BT','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Minion-Regular;"> || <span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: 'BankGothic Md BT','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Minion-Regular;">All assessment is learner-centered, formative, context-specific, ongoing and rooted in teaching strategies. <span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: 'BankGothic Md BT','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Minion-Regular;"> <span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: 'BankGothic Md BT','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Minion-Regular;">All teachers use classroom assessments that demonstrate evidence of student performance in core subjects and 21st century skills. <span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: 'BankGothic Md BT','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Minion-Regular;"> <span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: 'BankGothic Md BT','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Minion-Regular;">All teachers share with parents and students <span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: 'BankGothic Md BT','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Minion-Regular;">the information needed to monitor student progress in achieving learning goals. <span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: 'BankGothic Md BT','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Minion-Regular;"> <span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: 'BankGothic Md BT','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Minion-Regular;">Students, teachers and parents always collaborate to monitor student progress in <span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: 'BankGothic Md BT','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Minion-Regular;">achieving learning goals and use assessment to evaluate long-term student progress. <span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: 'BankGothic Md BT','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Minion-Regular;"> <span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: 'BankGothic Md BT','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Minion-Regular;">Most assessments use technology and record student performance as a means of tracking information over time. <span style="font-family: 'BankGothic Md BT','sans-serif';"> || <span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: 'BankGothic Md BT','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Minion-Regular;">Teachers act as facilitators, resources and partners <span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: 'BankGothic Md BT','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Minion-Regular;">for teaching and learning. <span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: 'BankGothic Md BT','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Minion-Regular;"> <span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: 'BankGothic Md BT','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Minion-Regular;">All teachers use adaptable and flexible teaching and learning strategies that integrate 21st century skills. <span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: 'BankGothic Md BT','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Minion-Regular;"> <span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: 'BankGothic Md BT','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Minion-Regular;">All teachers act as role models in the application and <span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: 'BankGothic Md BT','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Minion-Regular;">use of 21st century skills. <span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: 'BankGothic Md BT','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Minion-Regular;"> <span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: 'BankGothic Md BT','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Minion-Regular;">Professional development supports the application <span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: 'BankGothic Md BT','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Minion-Regular;">of 21st century skills in teaching and learning strategies and classroom management practices. <span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: 'BankGothic Md BT','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Minion-Regular;"> <span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: 'BankGothic Md BT','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Minion-Regular;">All teachers access professional development through 21st century tools when applicable. <span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: 'BankGothic Md BT','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Minion-Regular;"> <span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: 'BankGothic Md BT','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Minion-Regular;">All teachers use professional development to reinforce their content competency and integrate 21st century skills. <span style="font-family: 'BankGothic Md BT','sans-serif';"> || <span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: 'BankGothic Md BT','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Minion-Regular;">Students can fully integrate core subjects and 21st century skills. <span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: 'BankGothic Md BT','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Minion-Regular;">Students can use learning skills and 21st century tools to fully understand material in a current context. <span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: 'BankGothic Md BT','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Minion-Regular;">That allows them to function effectively in personal, community and workplace environments. <span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: 'BankGothic Md BT','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Minion-Regular;">Students have a solid foundation in content with the ability to apply it in interdisciplinary studies. <span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: 'BankGothic Md BT','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Minion-Regular;">Students have the skills to learn how to learn and to apply learning skills continually. <span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: 'BankGothic Md BT','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Minion-Regular;">Students also have an ability to use the traditional and 21st century tools available and know how to use 21st century content in a 21st century context. <span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: 'BankGothic Md BT','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Minion-Regular;">Students also have the ability to integrate 21st century content into substantive areas. ||