Assessments are based on students' performance of real tasks. Students participate in interactive modes of instruction. Students work collaboratively. Students are grouped heterogeneously. The teacher is a facilitator in learning.
Students learn through exploration.
In which help a school to determine how far it has traveled and how much farther it has to go up the path toward a high level of engaged learning. Table I is excellent. Adding up the scores from the twelve questions, teachers with totals above 36 will generally welcome the addition of rich new information sources. Those with scores substantially below that number may not be philosophically inclined or pedagogically prepared to take advantage of the resources. The dollars are flowing to create on-ramps for the Information Highway , but far too many schools and districts are plugging in without providing the staff development or the curriculum changes necessary to take full advantage of the rich new resources.