Generally Accepted Principles of Teaching and Learning

Generally Accepted Principles of Teaching and Learning and their Implications for Local Education Support Systems: School Communities that Work: A National Task Force on the Future of Urban Districts

The Task Force believes that student learning is the cornerstone of everything that adults do in a “school community that works.” To show how this overriding principle works in action, we have compiled a framework of widely accepted ideas about student learning and spelled out their implications for good instruction and for good local education support systems. What we envision as a “local education support system” might include a district central office (possibly reorganized from its traditional role) but also encompasses a variety of local organizations and/or individuals who provide schools with significant, ongoing support for student learning.