ERIC Number: EJ971091
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Publication Date: 2010
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School Transformation + Development Map
Locker, Frank M.
Educational Facility Planner, v44 n2-3 p14-16 2010
The field of education has highly varied educational practices and facilities needs. Still, much of education continues to be delivered in the recognizable tradition of teachers working alone in isolated classrooms and buildings planned based on rows and rows of those classrooms. But there is no longer one single, universal view of how education should be delivered and in what types of spaces it should take place. Mixed in among the standard approaches are innovative educational deliveries that challenge past assumptions about school, and the facilities needed to support school. One of the most promising is the 21st Century Skills initiative advocating interdisciplinary learning and project-based learning. Other effective, innovative school concepts include teacher collaboration, team teaching, RtI's (response to interventions,) small learning communities, student cooperative learning, multi-age instruction and student internships. While some of these approaches are becoming commonly understood and are sanctioned by federal and state governments, the awareness of these, and others, is often found to be wholly new information to some educators, architects, and communities. This article describes the School Transformation + Development Map (ST+DM) as a messenger of varied practices, an organizer, and a basis for dialogue among school stakeholders about the future practices of and plans for their schools. It presents the full range of educational practices and facilities planning concepts in an organized form, constructed to establish key concepts and outline highly nuanced variations, offering a variety of "right" ways to proceed.
Descriptors: Student Projects, Teacher Collaboration, Cooperative Learning, Active Learning, Educational Practices, Educational Change, Team Teaching, Educational Facilities Design, Space Utilization, Interdisciplinary Approach, Educational Innovation, Delivery Systems, Teamwork
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Language: English
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