Designing classrooms that work: teacher training guide

The mini-sabbatical, Designing classrooms that work, was designed to help teachers learn how to make the kinds of curricular and pedagogical changes needed by the reforms to integrate vocational and academic education and to improve the school-to-career transition. It provides teachers with an opportunity to learn about today’s workplace and draw meaningful connections between the workplace and the classroom. The goal is to enable teachers to acquire skills that will 1) increase their knowledge of workplace practice; 2) help them create a high quality, integrated curriculum that incorporates both domain-specific (e.g. academic, technical) and generic (e.g. problem solving, communications) skills; 3) help them design classrooms that promote authentic learning; and 4) help them develop assessments that provide meaningful feedback to the students and teacher. The companion report (see TD/INT 57.233) describes the design, presents findings from the assessment of the pilot study and outlines the lessons learned from the study. Show less