Teacher Leaders need to look at teaching and learning differently: from the students perspective, and the teachers perspective, and work from there.

1. 21st Century Pedagogy Supporting 21st Century Learners Area 1 Learning Leaders - Presentation Introduction February 13, 2008 Yoda’s music created in Garageband for the Mac The theories children build, whether they are right or wrong, are not capricious. They are often logical and rational, and firmly based in evidence and experience. Susan Worth Power of Children’s Thinking

6. Learners in the 21st Century Who are they? They are … and … Go to David Warlick is a 30 year educator, author, blogger, and Web 2.0 programmer.

7. “ Teacher education programs are caught in the bind of informing teacher candidates about the importance of prior experiences and misconceptions while also having to deal with these candidates’ own prior experiences and misconceptions about both teaching and content.” Hausfather “ Teaching well depends on more than "knowing subject matter," understanding learning, and being able to present material clearly. Teaching is itself a specialized form of work that entails substantial content-based problem solving and reasoning.” Abstract to Ball’s Keynote Address Depth of Content Understanding

8. “ The cases suggest interrelationships between teachers content knowledge and their organization of content knowledge for instruction” (263). “The cases suggest interrelationships between the nature of classroom … discourse, and teachers syntactic [rule-bound] knowledge of mathematics” (264). The cases suggest interrelationships between teachers assessment of student thinking … and understanding … students reasoning processes, and teachers content … syntactic, and metacognitive knowledge” (266). Millsaps Depth of Content Understanding

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14. “ Self-regulated learning is characterized by three central features; awareness of thinking, use of strategies, and situated motivation. … Understanding the notion of self-regulation is important for teachers because teaching requires problem-solving and invention. Teachers face problems and challenges that are complex and rarely straightforward. … It is ironic that teachers are often taught with pedagogical methods that are contrary to the principles that they are being taught, such as direct instruction on problem-based learning or cooperative learning. Paris and in Blakey and Spence “ The ability to recognize the limits of one’s current knowledge, then take steps to remedy the situation, is extremely important for learners of all ages.” How People Learn (National Research Council) Learning About Learning; Thinking About Thinking

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