Category Archive For "Project Based Learning"
Chaos or Community: Student Contribution to Racial Justice
Inspire by the resources created and curated by BlackLivesMatteratSchool.com to help teachers engage students in action and work related to racial justice, what follows is an explication of a powerful interdisciplinary student project focused on race relations and police brutality, offered with the hope that it will empower some teachers to design projects related to …
Priorities for Flexible Learning
With students geographically dispersed, school schedules disrupted, and standardized tests delayed or cancelled, teachers have opportunities to explore creative paths for designing meaningful student learning experiences. With limited emotional and material resources, what ought they prioritize during this time?* Here are three teaching and learning priorities to consider: Building community Integrating student interests into the …
Is Authentic Innovative Education Scaleable?
If she doesn’t zoom out, a chemistry teacher might tell herself that her purpose is to teach chemistry. If, instead, she decides that her purpose is to give the young a lifelong relationship to the organic world, new possibilities emerge. from The Art of Gathering, by Priya Parker HTH Approach to Scale HTH expanded its …
The Design Trap in Large-Scale Projects
Be wary, PBL teachers who embrace the opportunity to tackle global problems such as climate change, poverty, deforestation, and etc. It’s true: most students immediately grasp the authenticity and importance of these problems. Furthermore, mountains of freely available, high quality resources are just an internet search away. And on top of resource availability and the …
Assessment as Dialogue: Podcast Episode with Innovative Teacher
Traditional quantitative assessment methods can work at cross purposes with schools and teachers attempting to implement a John Dewey-inspired approach to school that consists of authentic experiences and reflection. Furthermore, traditional methods can exacerbate opportunity gaps and unduly punish those students who most deserve support and encouragement. Mark Poole, engineering teacher at High Tech High …
Helping Teachers Decide What Products Students Should Create
A common challenge for teachers entrusted to design engaging projects for students is deciding on final products.
Effectively Launching Project Based Learning Instructional Coaching
New project-based learning teachers need loads of personalized, authentic, and collaborative support. It should also be uncomplicated too–at least at first.
More Student Choice Does Not Necessary Lead to Equity
Explained, but not proven, in one graph:
Treating Classes Like Gatherings, Part Three: Ending Well(If you haven’t read part one, on establishing purpose, or part two, on facilitating well, I’d [keep reading...]
Treating Classes Like Gatherings, Part Two: Teaching With Generous Authority(If you haven’t read part one, about establishing purpose, consider starting there.) After [keep reading...]
Why Teachers Should Consider Their Classes “Gatherings”Priya Parker’s The Art of Gathering, a book that, as the subtitle suggests, takes up the subject of [keep reading...]