The EIC Model™
Environment as an Integrating Context for improving student learning
In many cases, participants explore the components of the EIC Model™ and examine the EIC Model™ as a "system" that can be used to effectively address current challenges in education. The institutes help school teams develop the skills necessary to use the EIC Model™ to more effectively:
• identify
community and natural settings that can be used as
real-world contexts for EBE learning and
instruction;
• integrate instruction and learning across traditional disciplines, using SEER's curriculum-mapping process to simultaneously address content standards from several core subjects (English language arts, math, science, history/social studies and, in some cases, art, music, and physical education);
• develop community-based investigations to serve as contexts for standards-based instruction;
• provide hands-on learning experiences through problem-solving and issue-based studies;
• employ context-based teaching methods to reinforce adopted instructional materials;
• work successfully in interdisciplinary team structures;
• develop learner-centered, constructivist approaches adapted to individual students and their unique skills and abilities; and,
• assess the effects on: student achievement, student behavior and attendance, and teacher motivation.
• integrate instruction and learning across traditional disciplines, using SEER's curriculum-mapping process to simultaneously address content standards from several core subjects (English language arts, math, science, history/social studies and, in some cases, art, music, and physical education);
• develop community-based investigations to serve as contexts for standards-based instruction;
• provide hands-on learning experiences through problem-solving and issue-based studies;
• employ context-based teaching methods to reinforce adopted instructional materials;
• work successfully in interdisciplinary team structures;
• develop learner-centered, constructivist approaches adapted to individual students and their unique skills and abilities; and,
• assess the effects on: student achievement, student behavior and attendance, and teacher motivation.
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State Education and Environment Roundtable
13648 Jackrabbit Road
Poway, California 92064
Telephone: (858) 676-0272
Fax: (508) 462-8331
Founding Sponsor The Pew Charitable Trusts
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The "EIC Model™" and "using the Environment as an Integrating Context for
learning (EIC Model™)" Copyright © 1997-2018. All rights reserved.
Last update 1/1/2018