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Study finds teachers lack skills needed for high school reforms
- 12-14-2009
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Blog by John Fensterwald/Educated Guess
The demands on 21st century high school teachers in California are changing dramatically. The era of teaching a single subject in an isolated classroom is ending. Under ambitious high school reforms, teachers are being asked to lead interdisciplinary courses in small learning communities and career academies. They’re expected to inject real-world relevance into their courses, to individualize instruction in classes with a wide range of students, to require complex portfolios of their students’ work, include project-based learning and to do the jobs that counselors once did. (more...)
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