Student-Centered Learning Exposition

Proficiency-based school culture

Students at the Center: Reaching High Standards

Celebrating Innovative, Powerful Learning in Our Schools

Maine Association for Middle Level Education (MAMLE) and the Middle School of the Kennebunks will sponsor the first ever exposition in Maine devoted entirely to student-centered learning within a proficiency-based school culture. Sessions, led by both students and their teachers, will be exciting to attend as we discover how teachers across grade levels and curriculum areas are creating innovative, student centered units and programs that stimulate learners intellectually and challenge them to think critically and creatively while meeting standards. This unique event will occur on Friday, April 13 at the Middle School of the Kennebunks.

This day-long conference will highlight student-centered, performance-based units and projects (classroom, school, or community-based) from across the K-12 spectrum. The presenters will demonstrate how their particular learning opportunity…

1. Engages students in innovative, creative ways
2. Focuses on specific learning outcomes
3. Incorporates student voice
4. Provides multiple ways for students to demonstrate learning

You need to attend if…

• You and your students have examples of student-centered, performance-based units and projects to share.
• You want to do transform your teacher-centered instructional approach to one that is more student-centered, and you need to see some concrete examples to give you ideas how to do it.
• You’ve had no experiences with student-centered, performance-based units and need to find out the basics.
• You want to be inspired by students and teachers sharing their exemplary work.

Every superintendent in the state of Maine has received a copy of Inevitable: Mass Customized Learning, and the Maine Cohort for Customized Learning is growing exponentially as more school districts explore the concept of customizing learning through student-centered, proficiency-based curriculum and instruction. The Students at the Center event provides an opportunity for students and educators to share strategies for transforming education from a teacher-centered approach to one where students’ learning targets, learning styles, and interests combine to provide optimum success for each student.

All details about presenting and/or attending are available at http://www.mamleonline.org/.

Questions?

Contact Dr. Wallace Alexander, Executive Director of MAMLE

wallace_alexander@umit.maine.edu