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20 Century Classroom Qualities 21 Century Classroom Qualities

This document compares and contrasts 20th century and 21st century approaches to education. It notes that 20th century education was more teacher-centered, focused on memorization of facts, and featured isolated, textbook-driven learning. 21st century education, on the other hand, is described as being more student-centered, emphasizing real-world and collaborative project-based learning. A table further outlines differences between the two approaches across several dimensions such as whether the focus is on outcomes or time, the levels of Bloom's taxonomy employed, and whether learning is active or passive. Overall, 21st century education is characterized as being more integrated, interdisciplinary, and connected to students' interests compared to the more fragmented 20th century model

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20 Century Classroom Qualities 21 Century Classroom Qualities

This document compares and contrasts 20th century and 21st century approaches to education. It notes that 20th century education was more teacher-centered, focused on memorization of facts, and featured isolated, textbook-driven learning. 21st century education, on the other hand, is described as being more student-centered, emphasizing real-world and collaborative project-based learning. A table further outlines differences between the two approaches across several dimensions such as whether the focus is on outcomes or time, the levels of Bloom's taxonomy employed, and whether learning is active or passive. Overall, 21st century education is characterized as being more integrated, interdisciplinary, and connected to students' interests compared to the more fragmented 20th century model

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 20th Century Education 

is teacher-centered with a fragmented curriculum, students working in


isolation memorizing facts.
 21st Century Education is student-centered with real-life, relevant, collaborative project-based
learning.

20th  Century Classroom Qualities 21th Century Classroom Qualities


Time-based Outcome-based
Focus:  memorization of discrete facts Focus:  What students Know, Can Do and Are
Like after all the details are forgotten.
Lessons focus on the lower level of Bloom’s Learning is designed on upper levels of Blooms’
Taxonomy – knowledge, comprehension – synthesis, analysis and evaluation (and
and application. include lower levels as curriculum is designed
down from the top.)
Textbook-driven (content comes from Research-driven (content comes from student
textbooks) research)
Passive learning Active Learning
Learners work in isolation – classroom Learners work collaboratively with classmates
within 4 walls and others around the world – the Global
Classroom
Teacher-centered:  teacher is center of Student-centered:  teacher is facilitator/coach
attention and provider of information
Little to no student freedom Great deal of student freedom
“Discipline problems" – educators do not No “discipline problems” – students and
trust students and vice versa.  No student teachers have mutually respectful relationship
motivation. as co-learners; students are highly motivated.
Fragmented curriculum Integrated and Interdisciplinary curriculum
Grades averaged Grades based on what was learned
Low expectations High expectations – “If it isn’t good it isn’t
done.”  We expect, and ensure, that all students
succeed in learning at high levels.  Some may
go higher – we get out of their way to let them
do that.
Teacher is judge.  No one else sees Self, Peer and Other assessments.  Public
student work. audience, authentic assessments.
Curriculum/School is irrelevant and Curriculum is connected to students’ interests,
meaningless to the students. experiences, talents and the real world.

Print is the primary vehicle of learning and Performances, projects and multiple forms of
assessment. media are used for learning and assessment

Diversity in students is ignored. Curriculum and instruction address student


diversity
Literacy is the 3 R’s – reading, writing and Multiple literacies of the 21st century – aligned to
math living and working in a globalized new
millennium.
Factory model, based upon the needs of Global model, based upon the needs of a
employers for the Industrial Age of the 19th globalized, high-tech society.
century.  Scientific management.

Driven by the NCLB and standardized Standardized testing has its place.  Education is
testing mania. not driven by the NCLB and standardized
testing mania.
I vote no, as well.

Teaching is not the same as business. We don’t get commissions, we don’t get bonuses,
because we are not tasked with meeting some bottom line. We are tasked with educating
students.

So much of a teacher’s success is intangible. And it varies so much—success for me, a high
school language teacher, looks very different from success for an elementary special
education teacher. Or a middle school art teacher. Or…you name it.

Testing is an imperfect method to determine student success, to say the least. Standardized
tests only measure a very small piece of what a student knows or can show. Often
standardized tests are created by non-teachers.

Students who do well on standardized tests are necessarily the richest kids. They tend to
come from homes where the parents place value on education and reading AND have the
time, money and leisure to model that value. Many parents do not. Then there are kids who
learn differently, who have disabilities, who come from homes where English is not the
primary language and struggle, who just don’t happen to test well. NONE of this has
anything to do with the teacher’s “performance.”

“How well their students perform” can also refer to teachers’ own grades on kids’ report
cards. Grading is so subjective and varies so much from one teacher to another that it’s not
even worth talking about.

We cannot treat teaching like a business. It’s not.

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