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If you are interested in a self-paced learning experience for each of your students,

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then you're probably really gonna like this model of an interactive classroom.

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In an interactive classroom students move at their own pace through a chunk of curriculum.

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So, this could mean that students are working through an individual unit at their own pace

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maybe it's a semester of material or maybe it's an entire school year or multiple grade levels.

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It just depends on what your school is supportive of and how much planning you're willing to do.

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Regardless of how much curriculum your students are moving through

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the students are really the drivers of their own education in an interactive classroom.

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So, students... students become drivers...

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And this is because students are no longer listening to a lecture everyday

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Instead, they are given a list of exercises and videos and maybe some other worksheets and online resources

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that they are moving through in a mastery, in a mastery based way and also at their own speed.

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So let's go ahead and jump into the nitty-gritty of what an interactive classroom can look like.

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Now, they never look the same and they often change throughout the day. So this is just an example.

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Usually, sometime during the day there will be a teacher seminar.

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And this is when a teacher can look at the data to see which students really could use some extra help,

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if a group of students are all struggling on the same topic or maybe the teacher is just ready

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to introduce some new material with a group project or a hook, and these are the students who are ready for it.

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There is also a fair amount of peer-to-peer tutoring that happens in interactive classrooms

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you can see that in these two groups with students sitting next to each other

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with these orange things which are supposed to be computers or tablets

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And again, teachers can use data to pair students up, students can pair themselves up

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based on what they know of each other.

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And then over here in this corner this is probably a bit quieter, this is where a lot of individual work can happen

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And again, students might be working through different videos or exercises, based on where they are

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on their own learning trajectory.

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And then we also hope that there is a lot of time spent on group work or collaborative work or projects.

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And this gives students an opportunity to really approach math in a more interactive exploratory way.

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Maybe it's an activity where students can apply their knowledge to real world situations

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that are very relevant to them.

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Regardless of what the activity is, these are just important opportunities for students to interact with each other

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and have that discovery based approach to learning math.

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So this is just one example of what an interactive classroom can look like.

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You can see that there is a lot going on and so, there are four things that are really key to an interactive classroom

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and the first is data.

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It's important for teachers to be data driven so that they know which students are sort of lacking behind,

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which students are ready to move on

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and because the teacher becomes less of a content expert and more of a facilitator,

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the teacher really needs the data to know how to group students intelligently.

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The second thing that's really important for the success of an interactive classroom is simply classroom management.

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Because there is so much going on it's important for a teacher to

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really have a strong grasp of being able to control this much caos and feel really comfortable with it.

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The third thing that's important for an interactive classroom is planning.

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When you have students moving at their own pace there'll inevitably be students who are moving

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much faster than the rest of the students.

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So, a teacher always has to be ready to know what to do with those students.

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Whether it's moving them on to the next unit or to the next grade level, or maybe saying

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"You know what? It's time for you to peer tutor and prove your mastery that way."

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"It's time for you to do a project." Or maybe "It's time for you to explore the computer science curriculum"

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As a way to sort of hold that student for a little bit until you're ready with the next amount of planning that you've done

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The fourth piece that's really important for an interactive classroom is simply time

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It takes time to be able to get here, it takes time for students to become familiar with this site

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and it takes time for you as a teacher to feel comfortable with the data and analytics to be able to run

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something like this.

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So, if this is something that you are excited about then we encourage you to start in any way that you can

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And just know that as you learn more about the systems and procedures that are successful with your students

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that that will all build towards an interactive classroom where there can be a lot of self-paced, mastery based learning

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where students are the drivers of their own education.