Excellent teachers in excellent schools are combining a variety of ideas and increasing student learning by leaps and bounds. These teachers combine the focus of learning standards with the ideas of student choice of products to demonstrate learning with identified Internet resources to create stimulating learning activities. State and national standards provide a good foundation on which to build learning activities. They represent the best thinking of experts in content areas and pedagogy. When students are given a choice of how to demonstrate their learning, the needs of a wider variety of student learning styles may be met.
Some students do well when writing research papers.
Others communicate better through an oral report supported with visual aids. Still others express ideas better in a more visual, creative format. Technology provides additional sources of information for student research as well as non-traditional formats for the demonstration of student learning. Imagine this scenario. Three teachers talk about what is currently being studied in their classrooms.