Develop 21st Century Skills

It can be challenging for teachers to translate the 20th century curriculum and training they've received for the 21st century learners in their classrooms. The ANGEL Learning Management Suite (LMS) provides the framework teachers need to bridge the gap and provide their students with the skills they will need to be successful in the global economy of the 21st century.

Develop Communication and Collaboration Skills

As the world gets smaller, students must learn to work together and communicate globally to effectively solve problems. Communication and collaboration skills are best developed through practice, and the ANGEL LMS makes it easy for teachers to integrate this practice into their class curriculum. With the ANGEL LMS, teachers can:

• Inspire social learning with course mail, discussion forums, blogs, and wikis
• Facilitate LIVE communication with virtual office hours, desktop sharing, whiteboard, chat and instant messaging
• Integrate Podcasts as a teaching and communication tool or as an assessment that can be shared with others
• Promote peer review and document sharing

Instill Student Responsibility

As students mature, it is important that they move toward independent learning. The ANGEL LMS facilitates this journey by providing ways for students to stay organized and learn to manage their time wisely. With the ANGEL LMS, students learn to take responsibility for their own performance. ANGEL allows students to:

• Check their own performance and activity at login
• See a personal view of upcoming tasks and “What's New”
• Stay organized with a class and school calendar
• Self-study with assessment mastery settings

Through the use of ANGEL ePortfolio, an integrated option to the ANGEL LMS, students can document their individual goals. ANGEL ePortfolio allows students to collect and store digital artifacts of their learning and to measure their performance against defined objectives using rubrics.

Encourage and Enable Creativity

Creativity will be a driving factor in 21st century economy. Schools and teachers have a responsibility to encourage and nurture ingenuity in their students. ANGEL helps connect students’ interests and learning, allowing students to creatively link what they are passionate about and what they are learning in the classroom. The ANGEL LMS:

• Promotes authentic assessment by allowing students to use their creativity to show what they have learned
• Highlights student individuality by allowing them to create personalized backgrounds and themes
• Encourages design creativity with HTML editing capabilities
• Lets students use personalized document layouts

Case Study

See how Frederick County Public Schools in northwestern Virginia is using the ANGEL LMS to meet the needs of today's tech-savvy students and embracing technology to achieve its 21st Century Goals. Both students and teachers are benefiting from the adoption of the ANGEL LMS.