Robert Barnett
ROLE: Chief Operating Officer
SCHOOL: Modern Classrooms Project
COUNTRY: United States of America
Robert Barnett is the co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of The Modern Classrooms Project. He has taught math, entrepreneurship, computer science, and law in the United States and Switzerland, and has written about education for Education Week, The Washington Post, and Washington City Paper. A native of Washington, D.C., he is a former City Year corps member and holds degrees cum laude from both Princeton University (A.B.) and Harvard Law School (J.D.).
TWITTER: @modernclassproj
CO-PRESENTER: Tom Cosgrove
The Modern Classrooms Project in Practice
DESCRIPTION:
Most K-12 classrooms operate under a flawed premise: every student learns at exactly the same pace as his or her peers. As teachers, we know this isn’t how learning works. In this session you will be introduced to the Modern Classrooms Project and some of the ideas that have been developed to create a teaching model based around self-paced, mastery based education. You will also hear first hand about how it works in the classroom from a teacher that is implementing the model on a daily basis.
STRAND: Beyond Now
TARGET AUDIENCE: Teachers/Educators, Administrators/School Leaders, Technology Coaches/Integrationists, Tech / IT Directors
TARGET GRADE LEVEL: Elementary, Middle School, High School
TECH LEVEL: Intermediate
LANGUAGE: English
TIME: 30 min
WHAT DO PARTICIPANTS NEED?
Nothing is needed.