The Vision Statement for Blended Learning at Bancroft-Rosalie is:
Bancroft-Rosalie will use Blended Learning to achieve student ownership and personalized learning in mastery-based classrooms, while promoting positive teacher and student relationships.
Definitions: Blended Learning- Blended learning is an educational program in which a student learns at least in part through online learning, with some element of student control over time, place, path, and/or pace; at least in part in a supervised brick-and-mortar location away from home; and the modalities along each student’s learning path within a course or subject are connected to provide an integrated learning experience.
Student Ownership- Students feel connected, engaged, and meaningfully involved when they are addressing relevant issues that reflect their interests, their passions, and their identities.
Personalized Learning- A personalized learning experience means increased student control over the time, place, path, and/or pace of his or her learning.
Mastery Based- In the classroom, it’s a teaching method premised on the idea that student progression through a course should be dependent on proficiency as opposed to amount of time spent on academic work.
Mr. Elsasser and Mrs. James were identified as the "Lighthouse Classrooms" to establish classrooms that will serve as examples for others. The lighthouse classrooms will been supported with the resources they need to implement blended learning.
The plan is to work at improving what we have in place- Discovery Education Science Techbook and IXL and XTra Math in elementary, EdReady Math and English, IXL, and Khan Academy in the secondary. RosettaStone will be used with advanced foreign language students.
Technology needs to support the teacher not replace the
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