ABLE Guide: Benefits

This is a work in progress as I develop the The Self-Organizing Classroom -A Quickstart Guide to Agile Based Learning Environments. 

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What Are The Benefits of ABLE?  

• mastery of 21st Century Skills built in to all learning:
• Creativity and innovation
• Critical thinking and problem solving
• Communication and collaboration
• Flexibility and Adaptability
• Mange Goals and Time
• Initiative and Self-Direction
• Social and cross-cultural interation
• Productivity and accountability
• Leadership
• Responsibility
• Work effectively in diversity
• Manage projects
• Produce results
• delivers the rigor required by the Common Core Standards
• mastery of Common Core Speaking and Listening Anchor Standards are built in
• real Life Skills that students can and will apply outside of the classroom
• diminished behavioral issues and improved attendance
• unleashes the love of learning
• self-mediatation of conflict
• higher order thinking and greater depth of knowlege
• teacher's role will be more rewarding as they move from the "sage on the stage" to the "guide on the side"
• character development integrated throughout
• adaptable to any curriculum and classroom structure
• rapid learning 
• minimal resources needed, just requires a marker and sticky notes.
• transformation of classroom culture
• radical student engagement & empowerment
• learners self-organze, allowing the teacher to provide more differentiated and higher valued instruction
• can start right away, ABLE provides an easy on-boarding process and a pathway to mastery
• provides "guard-rails" to protect the classroom from chaos as it incrementally empowers learners
• realtime differentiation of learning