Problem+Based+Challenge

 Creating a 21st Century Course for Teachers by Teachers

Twenty-first Century skills include communication,critical thinking, collabortion (teamwork), agility and adaptability, initiative, accessing and analyzing information, and curiosity and imagination. This course will require all of these skills of the participants and will provide an experience in 21st Century learning for all participants PLUS the course will move each person forward in a desired area of inquiry. PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING begins with two major big ideas: a problem and working as a team. The problem is: What do you want to know and be able to do better as an English teacher? The team will coalesce as we discuss the cncerns. The result will be (for those enrolled in the graduate course) a final presentation to colleagues to share what you've learned.

This course will be a "blended course," with two or three face-to-face classes and with three or four on-line checkins. The class will design the times and places.

Besides the typical learning that takes place in a class, some of you will also be learning about how accountability can be both individual and team-based as you negotiate with your team about the final synthesis of your individual ideas into a presentation as well as the form of his presentation.

We have created a wiki to support this work. And when google apps is up and running in the district, we will use google.docs and other google apps to collaborate.

Are you up for this challenge?

Because not all of us will be able to attend a meeting we're holding this a-synchronous meeting through this survey.