ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHING AND LEARNING BELIEFS

We believe that… ● Classroom environments build strong community culture and reflect what is important in the learning process. ● Choice is essential for engagement. ● Learning is a collaborative and social process. ● Learners need descriptive, timely, and formative feedback. ● Student-centered goal setting, reflection, and revision are essential to learning. ● Students need multiple opportunities to exercise agency. ● Risk-taking, mistakes, and productive struggle are necessary and valuable to the learning process. ● Learners construct knowledge, skills and understanding based on knowledge and experiences. ● Learners construct knowledge by engaging in authentic, meaningful experiences. ● Students need multiple opportunities to co-create and innovate. ● Learners benefit from making connections across and within disciplines. ● Learning occurs at different rates and in different ways.