Podcast: Developing Student-Centered Teachers

Republished with permission from Heather Clayton Staker|10/26/2020

What’s the best way for school leaders to equip teachers with the skills they urgently need to transform their instructional model?

For years many educators have longed for a more personalized, competency-based, student-driven learning model to replace the traditional classroom. This year, remote/hybrid learning has created unprecedented demand for finally taking that call seriously.

In the ideal, educators would have a modular solution for PD–one that lets them order up the specific skills they need, in a simple way, at an affordable price. In this show, Heather Clayton Staker shares her latest research from the Christensen Institute that proposes a way forward for making that vision for PD possible.

What You Will Discover

  • Why modularity is the aim for the next generation of PD
  • The three requirements for true modularity
  • How micro-credentials could provide modularity
  • 66 competencies for student-centered teaching

Featured on This Show

Heather Staker

Heather Staker is an adjunct researcher for the Christensen Institute and president of Ready to Blend. She is the co-author of Blended: Using Disruptive Innovation to Improve Schools (San Francisco: Wiley, 2015) and co-founder of Brain Chase Productions, which produces online-learning challenges disguised as worldwide treasure hunts for students in grades 1-8.

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