In addition, it is helpful to look at a more holistic vision of what the new paradigm of instruction might be like. I proposed that it will be characterized by the following core ideas: learning-focused, learner-centered, learning by doing, attainment-based progress, customized instruction, criterion-referenced testing, collaborative learning, and enjoyable learning. I then proposed a vision of instruction for one possible implementation of these core ideas. It describes: task and instructional spaces, team and individual assessment, instructional strategies for the task space, and instructional strategies for the instructional space.
Finally, I summarized a set of key roles for the new paradigm of instruction. New roles for teachers include: designer of student work, facilitator of the learning process, and caring mentor. New roles for students include: worker, self-directed learner, and teacher. Four major new roles were described for technology. First, record keeping for student learning includes offering a standards inventory, a personal attainments inventory, and a personal characteristics inventory. Second, planning for student learning includes helping the student, parents, and teacher to identify or decide on long-term goals, attainments currently within the student’s reach, attainments to pursue in the next contract, tasks for learning those attainments, other students to work on a team, roles for the teacher and parents, and a contract. Third, instruction for student learning includes a wide variety of tools for both the