Inside the classroom, students use the New Tech Learning Outcomes Rubrics to set goals, and the teacher facilitates interactive lessons that allow for observation of student performance in the New Tech Learning Outcomes. Students also reflect upon their own performance at the end of each lesson.
Outside of the classroom, New Tech Practices involves teachers using protocols to share and refine their lesson plans, and using student work to analyze their practice.
New Tech Practices addresses three of the five NTN Learning Outcomes:
New Tech Practices addresses three of the five NTN Learning Outcomes.
Groups engaging in New Tech Practices can vary: a small group of teachers, a department, a grade level, a PLC, even an entire staff. Some districts have utilized New Tech Practices with select teachers from a group of schools. Schools may wish to follow up this workshop with New Tech Cultural Practices.
We have found that NT Practices serves as excellent preparation for whole-school transformation to the New Tech model.