Traits Of An Revolutionary Classroom –

by Terry Heick

Earlier than the concepts, let me preface this by acknowledging that many of those–if not most–aren’t possible in most lecture rooms and faculties.

I taught for years and tried to shoehorn concepts like this into my educating, and it was rewarding however exhausting and in the end resulted in my turning into a pariah in my very own faculty/district. I didn’t intend on ‘not being a staff participant,’ however that’s precisely how concepts like these look to–properly, to some individuals. I’ll go away it at that. (See additionally Teaching Disruptively.)

Since I’m not going to clarify how you can accomplish these sorts of shifts (that’d be a e book), although, I do seek advice from among the posts I’ve created through the years that elaborate on a few of these concepts. The aim of this put up, then, is to vaguely sketch the attainable traits of an revolutionary classroom.

You could disagree strongly with each single one, and that’s okay. These are all opinions and whenever you, as an educator, try to assist the scholars in your classroom develop, they might have wants that take priority over these–primary studying expertise, scholar group expertise, classroom administration, and so forth. I get it. I solely need to contribute to the dialog of how we would finally change lecture rooms the place its ‘administration’ is the first concern.

See Additionally The Elements Of A Literacy-Rich Classroom Environment

The large concept? Transferring the dialog from innovation for the sake of showing revolutionary to innovation that’s sustainable, centered round individuals and communities, at a scale that really works.

The Shifts And Traits Of An Revolutionary Classroom

From Content material to Thought (see additionally Are You Teaching Content Or Are You Teaching Thought?)

From Strain to Sustainability (See additionally the Agrarian Learning Model.)

From Letter Grades to Microgrades (See additionally How Gamification Can Uncover The Nuance Of The Learning Process.)

From Information to Individuals

From Pressured Collaboration to Interdependence

From Certainty to Uncertainty (See additionally How To Teach For Knowledge Through Humility.)

From Direct Instruction to Inquiry (See additionally Alternatives To Lecturing In The Classroom.)

From Testing to A Local weather of Evaluation (See additionally 50 Formative Assessment Strategies.)

From Replication to Creation

From Massive to Small

From Rows to Studying Areas

From Linear to Spiraling (See additionally Learning Is Not Linear. Why Is Curriculum?

From Directors To Leaders

From Instructor-Led to Scholar-Pushed

From Faculties to Communities (See additionally The Characteristics Of A Good School.)

From Labels to Concepts

From Mastery to Citizenship (See additionally Examples Of Digital Citizenship.)

From Route to Navigation

From Formality to Fluidity

From Standing Quo to Disruption (See additionally How Disruption Causes Lasting Change In Education.)

From Stability to Mobility (See additionally 12 Principles Of Mobile Learning.)

From Certification to Software

From School rooms to Networks

From Tutorial Literacy to Vital Literacy (See additionally The Relationship Between Reading And Critical Literacy.)

From Prompting to Scholar-Initiated Switch (See additionally Showing What They Know: Categories Of Cognitive Transfer.)