This is a work in progress as I develop the The Self-Organizing Classroom -A Quickstart Guide to Agile Based Learning Environments.
Pleaser email or comment your feedback so I can make this useful and as easy to use as possible.
What Are The Benefits of ABLE?
- mastery of 21st Century Skills built in to all learning:
- Creativity and innovation
- Critical thinking and problem solving
- Communication and collaboration
- Flexibility and Adaptability
- Mange Goals and Time
- Initiative and Self-Direction
- Social and cross-cultural interation
- Productivity and accountability
- Leadership
- Responsibility
- Work effectively in diversity
- Manage projects
- Produce results
- delivers the rigor required by the Common Core Standards
- mastery of Common Core Speaking and Listening Anchor Standards are built in
- real Life Skills that students can and will apply outside of the classroom
- diminished behavioral issues and improved attendance
- unleashes the love of learning
- self-mediatation of conflict
- higher order thinking and greater depth of knowlege
- teacher's role will be more rewarding as they move from the "sage on the stage" to the "guide on the side"
- character development integrated throughout
- adaptable to any curriculum and classroom structure
- rapid learning
- minimal resources needed, just requires a marker and sticky notes.
- transformation of classroom culture
- radical student engagement & empowerment
- learners self-organze, allowing the teacher to provide more differentiated and higher valued instruction
- can start right away, ABLE provides an easy on-boarding process and a pathway to mastery
- provides "guard-rails" to protect the classroom from chaos as it incrementally empowers learners
- realtime differentiation of learning
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