Everything we do at GHP is governed by two mandates:
- We must provide instruction that is significantly different than the regular high school classroom.
- We must provide instruction that empowers the students to become lifelong learners.
As you think about what you’re doing in the classroom, remember these two mandates. At the end of the summer, we survey the students to see how well the program did in terms of differentiation and empowerment; you want your classroom ranked high on both.
What do we mean by “significantly different”?
We expect to see instruction that differs from the regular classroom in terms of
- content
- delivery
- expectation of student response
Ideally, your classroom should be observably different from a regular high school classrom in all three areas.
We’ll begin looking at these three areas in the next blogpost.
Got it!
Posted by Daniel Glenn on May 7th, 2013.
Well remember this.
Posted by Ben Crosby on May 8th, 2013.
“Different” is not necessarily the same as “more” or “harder.”
Posted by Jobie on May 9th, 2013.
Got it.
Posted by Henry Mei on May 9th, 2013.
Got it!
Posted by Marley Myers on May 11th, 2013.
Out of the box teaching and student interaction
Posted by Kathy Holden on May 13th, 2013.
Empowering and significantly different–inspiring mandates!
Posted by Catherine Muller on May 14th, 2013.
I love offering a curriculum that isn’t a possibility in high school.
Posted by Quique on May 15th, 2013.
Expectation!! Got it.
Posted by Doug on May 15th, 2013.
Got it!
Posted by Vance on May 19th, 2013.
Good reminder…
Posted by Gini on May 21st, 2013.
Got it
Posted by James d on June 7th, 2013.
As in “Little Bets”, in this small window of time teaching and learning will be different!
Posted by Rebecca Potter on June 9th, 2013.
roger ça
Posted by Jordan on June 17th, 2013.
And here I thought a mandate was something you go on with a mancrush. Seriously mandate got it. (I’ll be serious from here on out I just had to get that out of the way)
Posted by Hugh on June 23rd, 2013.