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What Describes a MITA Class?

 

Academic Standards

  • Excellence
  • Intelligence fair assessments
  • Multiple ways of expressing
    knowledge
  • Ongoing knowledge
  • Tolerates ambiguity

 

 

Social Interactions

  • Community building
  • Interactive engagement
  • Gender equity
  • Cultural inclusion
  • Mutual respect
 

 

MITA's 5 Phases

    • Question
    • Target
    • Expect
    • Move
    • Reflect

Expressed


 

 

Environment

  • Safe
  • Varied spaces
  • Curiosity and wonder
    evident
  • Evidence of students' past
    knowledge and experience

 

 

 

Roles

  • Roundtable discussions
  • Teacher as learner
  • Learners teach at times
  • Motivated participants
  • Student choice