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If your goal for a lesson, unit, or other instructional activity is to drive deeper student thinking and learning, consider these 8 questions from Section A of the 4 Shifts Protocol. If you like your answers, awesome! Keep doing that! If you’re not where you want to be yet, pick a couple of questions and select your desired answers instead (e.g., Yes instead of No or Somewhat). Then do a redesign pivot: How could you redesign the student learning experience to get to your desired answers? Brainstorm with some colleagues or a coach about how to shift the two questions you picked toward deeper thinking and learning. Then go do that instead to get closer to your goal!
A. Deeper Thinking and Learning
Domain Knowledge. Is student work deeply rooted in discipline-specific and -relevant knowledge, skills, and dispositions?
Yes / No / Somewhat
Deeper Learning. If yes, is student work focused around big, important themes and concepts that are central to the discipline rather than isolated topics, trivia, or minutiae? [Do student learning activities and assessments go beyond low-level facts and procedures? Are students just regurgitating syntheses and analyses provided by an information source or the teacher?]
Yes / No / Somewhat
Critical Thinking. Do learning activities and assessments allow students to engage in deep critical thinking and analysis?
Yes / No / Somewhat
Problem Solving. Do learning activities and assessments allow students to engage in complex and messy (not simple) problem solving?
Yes / No / Somewhat
Creativity. Do students have the opportunity to design, create, make, or otherwise add value that is unique to them?
Yes / No / Somewhat
Metacognition. Do students have the opportunity to reflect on their planning, thinking, work, and/or progress?
Yes / No / Somewhat
If yes, can students identify what they’re learning, not just what they’re doing?
Yes / No / Somewhat
Assessment Alignment. Are all assessments aligned cognitively with standards, learning goals, instruction, and learning activities? [Standards and learning goals drive everything, including depth of student thinking and the necessary accompanying assessments. Assessments should be aligned to the cognitive complexity asked of students.]
Yes / No / Somewhat
The 4 Shifts Protocol is a fairly new resource that helps teachers, principals, and instructional / technology coaches shift student experiences toward deeper learning, greater student agency, more authentic work, and rich technology infusion. The protocol provides some fairly concrete ‘look fors’ and ‘think abouts’ and can be used as both a diagnostic and a redesign tool. For best results, focus on claims and evidence. That is, if we say something is there (e.g., complex, messy problem solving), we should be able to point to it and say, ‘Yes, it’s right there and it’s awesome!’
So far the 4 Shifts Protocol is proving to be a nice complement to SAMR, TPACK, Triple E, PBL, UbD, and other instructional frameworks. And many educators are using these smaller shifts in existing lessons and units to build the capacity of themselves and their students to do more complex project- and inquiry-based work. The protocol is free and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike International copyright license, so use and modify it as desired!
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Direct instruction is the explicit teaching of objectives while project-based learning is more passive, ongoing, and self-directed.
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The former secretary of state will teach in the School of International and Public Affairs as well as work on global policy initiatives with Columbia World Projects.
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Fairfax County, Va., high school students are training to become public health "ambassadors." The program gives them a head start on a career while improving trust in the health system.
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