21st Century Learning and Teaching

November 14, 2016

What is required for achieving excellence -

learning, working and living for the 21st

Century?

Achieving Excellence – Vision for Education • “Beyond reading, writing and mathematics, we know that to achieve

excellence in the future, our learners will need to develop characteristics such as perseverance, resilience, and imaginative thinking to overcome challenges. Combined with a deep sense of compassion and empathy for others, our learners will develop the knowledge and skills they need to

become actively engaged citizens.” (Achieving Excellence, p. 5)

Ontario will:

• Invest in innovative teaching practices and instructional methods enabled by technology to more precisely engage and address the learning needs of all students.

• Invest in the technology, design, and infrastructure required for the classrooms of the future to serve the needs of all communities.

• Work with teachers, principals, and supervisory officials and their professional associations to identify and share effective and innovative teaching practices that include the use of technology.

• Define and develop measures for higher-order skills, such as critical thinking, communication, collaboration and entrepreneurship.

(Achieving Excellence: A Renewed Vision for Education in Ontario, April 2014, p.6 & 7)

Achieving Excellence

Action Plan

Mandate Letter Progress 2016 - Education:

Mandate Letter Commitment • By 2025, Ontario will have an education

system that seamlessly integrates services from early years to adulthood. Ontario will be a world leader in higher-order skills — such as critical thinking and problem solving — which will allow Ontario to thrive in the increasingly competitive global marketplace.

Progress • Ontario, along with provinces across

Canada, identified pan-Canadian 21 century competencies.

• Working with educators, update curriculum and assessment practices for the teaching of the global competencies

(Mandate Letter Progress: Education, January 2016, https://www.ontario.ca/page/mandate-letter-progress-education) (Mandate Letter Progress: Education, September 2016,

https://www.ontario.ca/page/september-2016-mandate-letter-education)

Achieving Excellence

Action Plan

Stakeholder

Engagement

- Sector dialogue

and data

gathering on

status of

technology-

enabled learning

Promising

Practices

Knowledge

Mobilization

- External research reports

- Videos of promising

practices

- Research summaries for

districts “What Research

Tells Us”

- District-developed

resources

- Sharing Ontario’s

progress at international

conferences

System Change

and Scaling

Policy

Research FORWARD LOOKING

EVIDENCE-BASED, ENGAGED AND HORIZONTAL

Focussed

Innovation

Achieving

Excellence

INTEGRATIVE

2010

Ontario’s 21st Century Teaching and Learning Journey

with CODE and District School Boards

- Innovation Research (5

rounds) with 72 district

school boards, school

authorities, and provincial

schools to document evidence

of how technology-enabled

teaching and learning is

making a difference for

students

- Promising practices emerging

for scaling innovative

transformations to teaching

and learning

-21st Century Round Table (4) annual

provincial events and other forums

with over 1900 system leaders to-

date

-Focus on pedagogy, technology, and

change leadership required for system

change

-Critical friends ( incl. Dr. Chris Dede:

Harvard and Ont. Advisors)

-$150M Technology and Learning

Fund (starting in 14-15)

-21st Century / global competencies

and deeper learning

Theories and knowledge about how people learn

Design of learning and

teaching opportunities

and environments

21st Century/Global competencies and Content

Innovation Partnerships

and

Co-learning

Co-leadership,

System and Scale

Technology

Learning Excellence

Ontario’s Journey of Transforming Education for

Deeper Learning

Technology and Learning Fund (TLF) Transforming Education for Deeper Learning and 21st Century / Global Competencies

Teacher-student learning partnerships through real-world, authentic learning

tasks enabled by technology

More opportunities for peer-to-peer learning

enabled by technology

Provide professional learning about new

assessment practices that reflect deep learning

pedagogy, aligned with Growing Success policy

Opportunities to develop new partnerships among

educators

Powerful Learning - International Lessons

✓Ground innovative learning environments in knowledge of how people learn

✓Understand in detail and be inspired by actual learning environments

✓Move beyond the level of individual cases to deepen understanding of how to grow, scale and sustain innovative practice

“Schooling Redesigned: Towards Innovative Learning Systems” (OECD 2015)

Powerful Learning - International Lessons

✓Ground innovative learning environments in knowledge of how people learn

✓Understand in detail and be inspired by actual learning environments

✓Move beyond the level of individual cases to deepen understanding of how to grow, scale and sustain innovative practice

“Schooling Redesigned: Towards Innovative Learning Systems” (OECD 2015)

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Transformational Practices Experienced By

Students – All Boards are Scaling Locally-

determined Innovations

• Inquiry/problem-based learning

• Students co-learning with teachers

• Digital citizenship and literacy

• Real world, authentic learning tasks

• Learning through social action

• Online/blended learning

• Cross-curricular learning

• Innovative spaces for learning

• Game-based learning

• Assessment for and as learning

• Students co-designing learning tasks

• Students are using the Virtual Learning

Environment to access math manipulatives

that help students explore and master abstract

mathematical concepts by making these

concepts more concrete, and allow them to

reflect on their learning.

Keewatin-Patricia DSB

• Students in remote communities are using

Skype technology in Grade 4 Social Studies to

communicate with students in other parts of the

world, using inquiry and investigative questions

to learn key about concepts in geography and

communities.

The Assessment Process Learning

Goals &

Success

Criteria

Self-

Monitoring

and Goal

Setting

Self and

Peer

Assessment

Descriptive

Feedback

Eliciting

Student

Thinking and

Learning

Teacher

“Moves”:

Assessment

for Learning

Student

“Moves”:

Assessment

as Learning

Transformed Assessment

• Assessment is

repurposed

• Students as

active assessors

• A culture of

learning

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Powerful Learning - International Lessons

✓Ground innovative learning environments in knowledge of how people learn

✓Understand in detail and be inspired by actual learning environments

✓Move beyond the level of individual cases to deepen understanding of how to grow, scale and sustain innovative practice

“Schooling Redesigned: Towards Innovative Learning Systems” (OECD 2015)

Ontario Innovation Champions

• http://www.edugains.ca/newsite/21stCenturyLearning/index.html

What Research Tells Us

Ontario

http://bit.ly/1Z86Zna

International

http://bit.ly/24na1Lj

School and System Leads

Making Connections

http://bit.ly/24nbeCc

School Leader Learning Series

Ottawa Catholic District School

Board

Provincial Resources

The Association of Library

Consultants and Coordinators of

Ontario

Copyright Matters! Some Key

Questions and Answers for Teachers

(2012), CMEC

Readings

Edugains

http://bit.ly/1rRpnXr

Classroom Resources

https://www.osapac.ca/dc/

Resources for Teachers

http://bit.ly/1TjdGOW

Scaling up and Systematizing Transformations in

Teaching and Learning

Round 5

(2015-16)

72 School Boards, 4 School Authorities and Provincial School

2,300 Schools

15,000 Teachers

850 Support Staff

2,285 Administrators

265,000 Students

Round 1

(2011-2012)

46 School Boards and Provincial School

646 Schools

39,000 Students

“Of those movements

that I've seen across

different parts of the

world, I actually think

that what [Ontario is]

doing is the most

sophisticated; that you

really are leaders in

what you're doing - a

kind of a lighthouse for

people across the world

that are trying to do

similar things.” (Chris Dede, 2014 Roundtable)

Sector Implications of Innovation

Research

• Students

• Teachers

• School and System

Leaders

Achieving Excellence

Policy Connections (some examples)

Innovation

Research

Projects and

21st Century /

Global

Competencies

Curriculum

and

Assessment

Leadership for

Learning

Experiential

Learning

Well-being,

Equity and

Inclusion

Making Connections -- Example Provincial Levers for Modernizing and

Transforming Teaching and Learning for Deeper Learning and Competencies

International

Education

Ontario’s Journey and Evolving Strategy for Transforming

Learning and Teaching – The Road Ahead

• Technology Learning Fund 2016-17 TLF

– Knowledge mobilization

– Professional Learning

– Strategic Action Research

• 21st Century/Global Competencies to guide curriculum renewal

Edugains.ca Council of Directors of Education