Commitments+to+Learning

= **Collective Commitments to Student Centered Learning Environments** = (Building a learning community) || * use problems to build understanding rather than as a culminating activity
 * **Belief about Student Centered Learning** || **My Commitment to Students** ||
 * Providing authentic problems for children to apply learning and skills || * look for relevant problems for students to solve
 * use the skills from the curriculum to solve the problems
 * encourage divergent thinking ||
 * Relevance || * create relevant problems
 * solve them with our skills
 * connect them to real life learning - transfer of knowledge and skills
 * provide context for learning ||
 * Interactions student-to-student
 * divergent problem solving & multiple solutions
 * opportunities to work in different collaborative groups
 * __Good Questions for Math Teaching__ ||
 * Critical Thinking and Problem Solving || * provide students opportunities
 * use multiple resources for background knowledge
 * explore different perspectives
 * information literacy and evaluation of information
 * allowing students to identify their own questions
 * ILA - give opportunities to use research, collaboration, communication to connect learning ||
 * Provide students opportunities for collaboration (independent from teacher) & Information Fluency || * allow students to become leaders
 * students will have to develop their own questions
 * allow students to work as an expert in a collaborative group ||
 * Problem-based learning || * teaching cooperative skills
 * teaching character values
 * respect for learning and learners ||
 * Supporting creativity and innovation || * working together in teams and small groups
 * provide opportunities to creativity ||