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**Standard 2**
 * Evidence 1:** The Future of Education: 20 Years From Now


 * Rationale 1**: This paper examines education and the implementation of tools in order to make significant changes from the current method of pedagogy. Changes need to be addressed in order for schools to better prepare students for the world they are living in. The various sources used include articles, videos, and a power point, all of which explore the changes in pedagogy from teacher centered to a student centered environment. The research has allowed me as a teacher to implement a variety of pedagogical approaches to meet the needs of the 21st century student.

KSD:


 * 2.K.1 The teacher understands how learning occurs -- how students construct knowledge, acquire skills, and develop habits of mind – and how to use instructional strategies that promote student learning for a wide rangeof student abilities.**

Schools need educators to focus on making more real world connections with an integrated curriculum, one that does not include departmentalized courses. By allowing students to utilize the digital tools available to them, they will be more actively engaged in their learning process as opposed to the standard lecture and memorization model that they are so accustomed to.


 * 2.S.2 The teacher stimulates student reflection on prior knowledge and links new ideas to** **already familiar ideas, making connections to students’ experiences, providing opportunities for active engagement, manipulation, and testing of ideas and material, and encouraging students to assume responsibility for shaping their learning task.**

Today’s student currently depends on teachers to give them the information they need to know, making them dependent upon them for learning rather than independent learners actively engaged in their learning process. In the future educators will need to guide and coach their students and the “education system of the future will undergo a transition from a heavy emphasis on teaching to a heavy emphasis on learning” (Frey 2007).


 * 2.D.1 The teacher appreciates individual variation at each developmental level and shows** **respect for the diverse talents of all learners, and is committed to help them develop self-confidence** **and competence.**

Schools need to prepare students by veering away from teacher-based learning to resource based learning with higher order thinking skills and better interpersonal skills.Overall, the tools used in the future classroom will be more technology based. Textbooks will be obsolete and handheld devices will be an integral part of the everyday curriculum since the student will be able to download any material.