Benton Community Design Team welcomes you to The Great Conversation Supporting Educational Change

Benton Community Design Team

welcomes you to

The Great Conversation Supporting Educational Change

Benton Community SchoolsA Place to Belong

Benton Community Schools Mission Statement and Core

Values:

• “Quality Education for a Lifetime of Learning”

• Educational Excellence• Team Work• Caring / Belonging

School Environment• Continuous Growth

Benton Community School District“A Place To Belong”

Bobcat Standards: Creative Problem Solvers Cooperative Contributors Complex Thinkers Self-Directed Learners Responsible Citizens Effective Communicators

Unfolding the Potential of Every Child by Educating Students for the Innovation Age

To assure that this takes place we must shift the culture of expectation to be learner-centered with an intense focus on every student. Learner-centered has several characteristics that help prepare students for college and a career including:

• Rigorous instruction based on college and career ready expectations

• Personalized instruction• Flexible instruction, with learning taking place anytime,

anywhere• Building collaborative learning structures and opportunities

for students.

Unfolding the Potential of Every Child by Educating Students for the Innovation Age

• Preparing our children for their tomorrow means designing school environments that result in our students being:

College PreparedCareer ReadyCommunity Involved

Are we preparing our students for the future that lies ahead of them?

THIS is

BENTONShort video encompassing Benton’s core values:

http://y2u.be/zJOHaEFwrXI

“If we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of

tomorrow.”

-John Dewey

Technology Advancement

3-D Drawings – Using Google Sketch-up

QR Code Readers to learn about Iowa Agriculture!

Hands-on Learning

Community Involvement

Standards Based Grading•Relates teaching & learning to assessments and back again – full circle•Gives meaning to learning – knowing exactly what was learned {especially not learned}•Relates real-world to learning•Gives stakeholders a sense of what is actually being learned and taught – connecting the two and bringing them together

Math assessments can be taken online. Scores are recorded and skills are tracked!

Individual and classroom snapshot reports give more information to students, teacher, and parents.

Math assessments:Then vs. Now

80% score reported Skills learned reported

Learned skills are tracked and students are able to see which skills they have mastered and which skills still need practice. No longer is an “80%” good enough

information to report. The skills learned or not learned need to be reported.

Jamie Vollmer

Benton CommunitySchools

A Place to BelongShort video Benton’s Homecoming Celebration

showcasing “A Place to Belong”http://y2u.be/8Sgm3owA3fc