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4. Objectives To review Teaching for Understanding, Rigor and Relevance, and Assessment for Learning To introduce Student-centered Classrooms and Teaching for Learner Differences

5. Teaching for Understanding

6. Assessment for Learning

7. Rigor and Relevance

8. Characteristics of Effective Instruction Student-centered Classrooms Teaching for Learner Differences

9. Student- centered Classrooms

10. Teaching for Learner Differences

11. Creating Learner-Centered Classrooms: Dreams and Practices Directions: 1.See Student-centered Classrooms and Teaching for Learner Differences handouts. 2.In the article, Creating Learner-Centered Classrooms: Dreams and Practices, read to the end of the first paragraph on the page two. 3.Record connections you make between the article and the details around Student-centered Classrooms and Teaching for Learner Differences. 4.Share your connections with your Leadership Team. 5.Identify a reporter to share out the connections.

12. “…it is necessary to go deeper and address the most important condition for successful school reform, namely, the quality of classroom instruction.” Breakthrough Fullan, Hill, and Crevola, 2006