The Responsive Education Framework was developed in response to the Arlington Public Schools 2005-2011 Strategic Plan, GOAL 3: RESPONSIVE EDUCATION--Prepare each student to succeed in a diverse, changing world through instruction and other school experiences responsive to each student’s talents, interests, and challenges.
Objective 3.1: Inventory instructional approaches (e.g., differentiated instruction, Understanding by Design, teaching for meaning) that are responsive to students’ talents, interests, and challenges, and create a framework that systematically expands opportunities.
Indicator: 2005-2006--Inventory completed, 2006-2007-- Framework developedWhat is a framework? A framework is a theoretical construct or perspective that forms the basis of a theory in science, politics or philosophy. It provides a structure on which ideas can be linked. The APS Responsive Education Framework is the conceptualization of the connections of the important components of instruction and learning.
The framework was developed with two Enduring Understandings in mind: