The Rigor and Relevance Framework
• Linda L. Jordan
• Content Development Director
• International Center for Leadership in Education
Agenda
Welcome
The 4
Quadrants
The Rigor and
Relevance
Framework
Closing
Moving Beyond the
Basics
Holland Michigan
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My Credentials
Professor
Director of Content
Development
International Center
for Leadership in
Education
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Hope College
Doctoral Candidate
Linda’s Family
Why do we need to get to
know the teacher? (Linda)
• Emotion is the gatekeeper to learning
• Relationship is a key element in every
classroom
• Builds trust
• Find common threads of interest
• Fun
All We Have In Common
• With the people sitting near you form a group
of 3-5
• Create a list of at least three things you have
in common.
• Be ready to share some items from you list
with the group.
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Goals for the Session
My Goals:
~Give you some applications of
brain information to your career,
your students’ lives, and the RR
Framework.
~Build an understanding of the
RR Framework for application
to your life.
Your Goals:
What are the problems the world faces
today?
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Who Are the Students We Teach?
• Digital Natives
• Live in Global World
• Parents & Students have new choices
–On-line learning
Change
Common Core State Standards
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Fewer
Higher
Deeper
The students will be expected to THINK and
apply their knowledge
• Computerized
• Next Generation of Testing, 2014
i-Brain
LEVELS OF USE
LEVELS
NON-USE
ORIENTATION
PREPARATION
When learning a new
strategy, process, or skill
INDICES
No action taken—user doesn’t know about it.
User has just acquired or is acquiring information
and is exploring it.
Preparing to use it, finding out more, gathering the
necessary materials, and getting organized.
MECHANICAL USE Use requires focus day by day on steps involved.
ROUTINE USE
REFINEMENT
INTEGRATION/
COLLABORATION
RENEWAL
Use has become routine and comfortable for the
user. If changes are made, they are convenient.
User makes changes to improve the process and
outcome for students.
Deliberate effort is made to collaborate with others
to achieve broader changes.
All refinements possible have been made, user now
seeks more effective alternatives, new approaches,
and abandons the old in favor of the new.
Return to Non-Use and the cycle begins again
“The future is not some place
we are going to,
but one we are creating.
The paths are not found, but made, and
the activity of making them changes
both the maker and the destination.”
--John Schaar
Unless we unlearn
some of our
traditional practices,
we will never get
beyond an
improvement mindset.
We are getting better at things
that do not matter
as much anymore.
Making a better
th
“20 Century School”
is not the answer.
Shenzhen, China: 1975
Shenzhen, China: Today
1980 2008 -
Fishing Village
Port of Shenzhen
1 / Second
24 / 7
Source: Atlantic Monthly
Projection Keyboard
Google Glasses
Impact of Technology
• Wolfram Alpha
• Flipping the Classroom
–Khan Academy
Technology by Generations
Today’s Students Want to Make
Games not just play them…..
Impact of Technology
Technologies to Watch
The Horizon Report 2012
Near Term (1-2 Years)
Mobil Apps & Tablet computing
Mid Term (2-3 years)
Augmented Reality and Game Based Learning
Mid Term (4-5 years)
Gesture-based computing
Amazon: For every traditional 100 books sold, 105 electronic
books were sold. (May 19, 2011)
Impact of Technology
Technologies to Watch
The Horizon Report 2012
“Education paradigms are shifting to include
online learning, hybrid learning and
collaborative models. There is a new emphasis
in the classroom on more challenging-based and
active learning.”
Current System
Something
Different
The Horse
The Automobile
Henry Ford quote…
“If I had asked the public what
they wanted,
they would have said
a faster horse.”
Some suggesting bold moves….
Conrad Wolfram… Start teaching math and stop
teaching calculating.
Sal Khan- The Khan Academy
Daggett System for Effective Instruction
1950’s School Building
1970’s School Building
2000’s School Building
2010’s School Building
Why Change?
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Career and College Ready
21st Century Skills
Technology
Foundational Knowledge
Pursuit of Excellence
Maximize Potential
What is College Ready?
Knowledge, skills,
and attributes
a student should possess to be
ready to succeed in entry-level
college courses.
What is Career Ready?
Core academic skills and the ability to apply those
skills to concrete situations in order to function in
the workplace and in routine daily activities
Employability skills (such as critical thinking and
responsibility) that are essential in any career area
Technical, job-specific skills related to a specific
career pathway
What are the
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21 Century Skills?
Ways of thinking Creativity, critical thinking, problemsolving, decision-making and learning
Ways of working Communication and collaboration
Tools for working. Information and communications
technology (ICT) and information literacy
Skills for living in the world Citizenship, life and career,
and personal and social responsibility
Putting Concepts Into Practice
What are the
st
21 Century Skills?
Collaborative problem-solving Working together to solve a common
challenge, which involves the contribution and exchange of ideas,
knowledge or resources to achieve the goal.
ICT literacy — learning in digital networks Learning through digital
means, such as social networking, ICT (Information and
Communication Technologies), technological awareness and
simulation. Each of these elements enables individuals to function in
social networks and contribute to the development of social and
intellectual capital.
Education is changing….
are YOU?
How do we get our
students ready?
Teachers are working hard, however….
Schools are Improving
Schools are Improving
Daggett System
for Effective Instruction
Teaching
Student
Achievement
Teaching
Brain Geography…
The Brain
SO WHY DOES INFORMATION FROM THE
NEUROSCIENCES MATTER?
IT HAS BEEN A CURIOSITY FOR MUCH OF
HUMAN HISTORY!
Learning is the brain’s
primary function.
Yesterday’s thinking…..
Phrenology – 1840s and 50s
an early practice at the end of the 19th century that
claimed to be able to identify mental capacity and
character by feeling the bumps of the skull
Today’s Science…
SPECT Scans
PET Scans
MRI and fMRI
It is possible to see the mind at work!
BRAIN BASICS
“LEARNING IS
THE BRAIN’S
PRIMARY FUNCTION…”
Frank Smith, Insult to Intelligence
Lobes of the Brain
Communication of Neurons
Photograph of NEURONS
Environmental Factors Affecting the
Growing Brain
Emotion
laden
messages
Greater stress,
threat, and
violence
Less physical
activity, more TV
Rapidly
changing inputMTV
Variation in
family pattern
Diet, nutrition,
and drugs
—David Sousa, 1998
Mirror Neurons in the Brain
A new class of brain cells -- mirror neurons -- is
active both when people perform an action
and when they watch it being performed.