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In this workshop, teachers and students from Proctor Junior/Senior High School will highlight their efforts to change their school from a teacher-centered model to a student-centered learning environment.
Presenters will share several key efforts that have been part of this transition to a “learner-centered” paradigm, including the separation of work habits from academic expectations, capacity-building for students to track their own progress against content proficiencies and drive their own learning through formative and summative assessment, and the role that Proctor’s ‘earned honors credit’ policy plays in a larger proficiency-based approach to learning.
In particular, presenters will focus on transitioning to PBL in Math and Science courses, describing strategies such as an “asynchronous classroom”—in which students work at their own pace through a collaborative, inquiry-based approach to labs—and teacher-designed “playlists” that target specific learning intentions and provide students with choices in how they access and demonstrate learning.
