Core Strategies for Innovation and Reform in Learning
Find resources to help you implement project-based learning, social and emotional learning, comprehensive assessment, teacher development, integrated studies, and technology integration.
Edutopia is dedicated to transforming the learning process by helping educators implement the strategies below. These strategies -- and the educators who implement them -- are empowering students to think critically, access and analyze information, creatively problem solve, work collaboratively, and communicate with clarity and impact. Discover the resources, research, experts, and fellow Edutopia members who are changing our schools. Join us in reinventing the learning process!
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Comprehensive Assessment
Effective assessment should measure the full range of student ability -- social, emotional, and academic achievement. Through various measures, including portfolios, presentations, and tests, multiple learning styles are supported.
Integrated Studies
To increase engagement and retention, academic subjects are presented in an interdisciplinary fashion that reflects modern knowledge and society. For instance history, literature, and art can be interwoven and taught through text, images, and sound.
Project-Based Learning
Long term and student centered, project learning is a rigorous hands-on approach to learning core subject matter and basic skills with meaningful activities that examine complex, real-world issues. Project learning helps students develop and retain useful, working knowledge of subjects that are often taught in isolation and abstraction.
Social and Emotional Learning
When students work together on project teams, they learn to collaborate, communicate, and resolve conflicts. Cooperative learning and character development supports the social and emotional development of students and prepares them for success in the modern workplace.
Teacher Development
The human touch is the most valuable element in education. Teachers, administrators, and parents play critical roles in coaching and guiding students through the learning process, nurturing students' interests and confidence as learners.
Technology Integration
Through the intelligent use of technology, combined with new approaches to education, a more personalized style of learning can be realized.
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Edno chudesno i mnogo polezno myasto za uchiteli.
Excellent resource! Happy to be participating in Edutopia.
Edutopia is a great resource for ideas in the classroom, to encouragement for the teacher who has been in a while and is tired. I have loved reading through each online issue multiple times. Thanks for providing this great too for teachers!!!
Dianna, thanks for the kind words. We love that you find our resources helpful enough to recommend. :-)
Excellent resources keep going
Really great resources. Would definitely help us during our teaching hours.
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