WEBVTT 00:00:00.935 --> 00:00:05.979 If you are interested in a self-paced learning experience for each of your students, 00:00:05.979 --> 00:00:10.597 then you're probably really gonna like this model of an interactive classroom. 00:00:10.597 --> 00:00:15.484 In an interactive classroom students move at their own pace through a chunk of curriculum. 00:00:15.484 --> 00:00:22.418 So, this could mean that students are working through an individual unit at their own pace 00:00:22.418 --> 00:00:29.405 maybe it's a semester of material or maybe it's an entire school year or multiple grade levels. 00:00:29.405 --> 00:00:34.982 It just depends on what your school is supportive of and how much planning you're willing to do. 00:00:34.982 --> 00:00:40.921 Regardless of how much curriculum your students are moving through 00:00:40.921 --> 00:00:48.170 the students are really the drivers of their own education in an interactive classroom. 00:00:48.170 --> 00:00:53.362 So, students... students become drivers... 00:00:53.362 --> 00:00:58.835 And this is because students are no longer listening to a lecture everyday 00:00:58.835 --> 00:01:10.372 Instead, they are given a list of exercises and videos and maybe some other worksheets and online resources 00:01:10.372 --> 00:01:18.425 that they are moving through in a mastery, in a mastery based way and also at their own speed. 00:01:18.425 --> 00:01:23.412 So let's go ahead and jump into the nitty-gritty of what an interactive classroom can look like. 00:01:23.412 --> 00:01:30.874 Now, they never look the same and they often change throughout the day. So this is just an example. 00:01:30.874 --> 00:01:35.423 Usually, sometime during the day there will be a teacher seminar. 00:01:35.423 --> 00:01:42.119 And this is when a teacher can look at the data to see which students really could use some extra help, 00:01:42.119 --> 00:01:48.176 if a group of students are all struggling on the same topic or maybe the teacher is just ready 00:01:48.176 --> 00:01:55.066 to introduce some new material with a group project or a hook, and these are the students who are ready for it. 00:01:55.066 --> 00:02:00.927 There is also a fair amount of peer-to-peer tutoring that happens in interactive classrooms 00:02:00.927 --> 00:02:07.051 you can see that in these two groups with students sitting next to each other 00:02:07.051 --> 00:02:11.138 with these orange things which are supposed to be computers or tablets 00:02:11.138 --> 00:02:17.306 And again, teachers can use data to pair students up, students can pair themselves up 00:02:17.306 --> 00:02:19.695 based on what they know of each other. 00:02:19.695 --> 00:02:27.808 And then over here in this corner this is probably a bit quieter, this is where a lot of individual work can happen 00:02:27.808 --> 00:02:35.494 And again, students might be working through different videos or exercises, based on where they are 00:02:35.494 --> 00:02:37.657 on their own learning trajectory. 00:02:37.657 --> 00:02:47.320 And then we also hope that there is a lot of time spent on group work or collaborative work or projects. 00:02:47.320 --> 00:02:57.872 And this gives students an opportunity to really approach math in a more interactive exploratory way. 00:02:57.872 --> 00:03:02.995 Maybe it's an activity where students can apply their knowledge to real world situations 00:03:02.995 --> 00:03:05.524 that are very relevant to them. 00:03:05.524 --> 00:03:12.639 Regardless of what the activity is, these are just important opportunities for students to interact with each other 00:03:12.639 --> 00:03:18.291 and have that discovery based approach to learning math. 00:03:18.291 --> 00:03:22.579 So this is just one example of what an interactive classroom can look like. 00:03:22.579 --> 00:03:29.327 You can see that there is a lot going on and so, there are four things that are really key to an interactive classroom 00:03:29.327 --> 00:03:32.191 and the first is data. 00:03:32.191 --> 00:03:39.344 It's important for teachers to be data driven so that they know which students are sort of lacking behind, 00:03:39.344 --> 00:03:41.749 which students are ready to move on 00:03:41.749 --> 00:03:47.264 and because the teacher becomes less of a content expert and more of a facilitator, 00:03:47.264 --> 00:03:53.108 the teacher really needs the data to know how to group students intelligently. 00:03:53.108 --> 00:04:00.001 The second thing that's really important for the success of an interactive classroom is simply classroom management. 00:04:00.001 --> 00:04:03.942 Because there is so much going on it's important for a teacher to 00:04:03.942 --> 00:04:13.249 really have a strong grasp of being able to control this much caos and feel really comfortable with it. 00:04:13.249 --> 00:04:19.451 The third thing that's important for an interactive classroom is planning. 00:04:19.451 --> 00:04:26.712 When you have students moving at their own pace there'll inevitably be students who are moving 00:04:26.712 --> 00:04:29.534 much faster than the rest of the students. 00:04:29.534 --> 00:04:33.489 So, a teacher always has to be ready to know what to do with those students. 00:04:33.489 --> 00:04:38.445 Whether it's moving them on to the next unit or to the next grade level, or maybe saying 00:04:38.445 --> 00:04:42.748 "You know what? It's time for you to peer tutor and prove your mastery that way." 00:04:42.748 --> 00:04:48.410 "It's time for you to do a project." Or maybe "It's time for you to explore the computer science curriculum" 00:04:48.410 --> 00:04:57.085 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 00:04:57.085 --> 00:05:03.188 The fourth piece that's really important for an interactive classroom is simply time 00:05:03.188 --> 00:05:09.847 It takes time to be able to get here, it takes time for students to become familiar with this site 00:05:09.847 --> 00:05:16.001 and it takes time for you as a teacher to feel comfortable with the data and analytics to be able to run 00:05:16.001 --> 00:05:17.156 something like this. 00:05:17.156 --> 00:05:23.630 So, if this is something that you are excited about then we encourage you to start in any way that you can 00:05:23.630 --> 00:05:30.787 And just know that as you learn more about the systems and procedures that are successful with your students 00:05:30.787 --> 00:05:38.845 that that will all build towards an interactive classroom where there can be a lot of self-paced, mastery based learning 00:05:38.845 --> 00:05:42.860 where students are the drivers of their own education.