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10 Tenents

Benefits

Technology enhances learning, rather than replaces it. Learners are able to progress at a pace that works best for them. Learners have a voice in how they learn best, increasing motivation and engagement. Learners view learning as something of value to them. Learners become the key drivers of their own learning, engagement and growth.

1. LDIP Continuum-A

  • A continuum of instructional methods including Legacy, Differentiation, Individualization, and Personalization. 
  • Instructional methods are based on individual learner needs, rather than teacher preference.
  • All instructional methods along the continuum have value when utilized with a learner-centered rationale.

2. Growth Mindset-B

  • The belief that skills and abilities can be developed through dedication, hard work, and learning.

3. Learner Profile-C

  • A place for learners to document reflections on their past, present, and future learning needs.
  • Empowers learners to develop self-advocacy skills as they work to set and achieve their own learning goals.

4. Student Voice and Choice-D

  • The perspectives, opinions, and preferences of learners are invited, respected, and considered.
  • Learners are given options regarding the ways in which they will engage in learning.

5. Teacher as Facilitator-E

  • The role of the teacher shifts from delivering content to facilitator of learning.
  • The role of the student shifts from a passive to an active learner. 

6. Proficiency Tables to Increase Clarity-F

  • Tables of proficiency detail what learning looks and sounds like at various stages of proficiency for a given standard.
  • Helps learners gauge their own progress and next steps in learning.

7. Feedback Cycles-G

  • Feedback is a dynamic, dialogic process that uses evidence to engage a learner internally or with a learning partner, in constructing knowledge about practice and self. 
  • Learning is co-constructed between learners and learning partners through a process of engagement, analysis, and reflection. 

8. Proficiency-Based Progress-H

  • Articulates what learners will learn, how deep or broad the learning will be, and how their learning will be demonstrated and measured. 
  • Learner progress toward the standards is based on growing proficiency, not seat time.

9. 5 Commitments of  the Graduate Profile

  • Social-Emotional Learning,  Proficiency-Based Progress,  Standards-Based Grading,  1:1 Learning, Multi-Tiered  Systems of Support
  • The Graduate Profile exhibits the keys to successful growth and progress, and shares expectations for learners.

10. Customized Learning Pathways-J

  • Allows learners to co-design their learning with educators, rather than simply complying with the directions and expectations of adults. 
  • Allows learners to progress at their own pace and within their own learning sequence, by taking increased ownership of their own learning.