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Bringing Better STEM Education to the Rural South

ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2024

The goal is to improve science literacy among high school students by making lessons meaningful and relevant to their lives through a teaching method called project-based learning. The curriculum also primes students for college and potential careers in science.

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Education K-12 Cultures Project-Based Learning

Standardized Tests Aren’t Going Anywhere. So What Do We Do?

Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

After all, framed that way, teachers give hundreds of standardized tests a year, even those who do learner-centered assessment, project-based learning, or otherwise collect evidence of student learning in ways that are considered alternative or non-traditional. Put like that, they feel benign, almost harmless. Stewart, A.

Pedagogy

Pedagogy Project-Based Learning Library Research

OPINION: When it comes to liberal-arts education, online learning changes only the tools

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2020

I’d already adapted this class in 2013 as one of Coursera’s free online humanities offerings. I’ve been particularly impressed by suggestions that lead to more active learning (or project-based learning) among students who are scattered across great distances. Will the 2020 coronavirus pandemic change that?

Education

Education Project-Based Learning Psychology Library

Two studies point to the power of teacher-student relationships to boost learning

The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2018

“These studies are important because they tell us that teacher-student relationships matter,” said Tyrone Howard, a professor of education at the University of California, Los Angeles, who is writing a book on the research about students’ relationships with their teachers and how well they learn. ”I

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Elementary School Economics Project-Based Learning Tradition

ISTE 2015: (Re)designing tech-infused lessons for deeper thinking

Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 17, 2015

In 2013 he received the Technology Leadership Award for the state of Iowa. Julie is a regular local, state, and national presenter focusing on student-centered learning, authentic work, and project-based learning. The one question I’m asking at ISTE 2013. Register here! Related Posts.

K-12

K-12 Leadership Project-Based Learning Lesson Plan

Scientific research on how to teach critical thinking contradicts education trends

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

To help student see analogies, “show students two solved problems with different surface structures but the same deep structure and ask them to compare them,” Williingham advises teachers, citing a pedagogical technique proven to work by researchers in 2013.

Critical Thinking

Critical Thinking Research Teaching Education

Can all students succeed at science and technology high schools?

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Information was based on surveys of 12th graders in 2012 in North Carolina and 2013 in Texas. The schools shared other traits, such as support for underrepresented students, early college-level courses, project-based learning and partnerships in the field. percent to 13.6

High School

High School Tradition Tutoring Project-Based Learning

Lessons from a school without walls

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2018

As a 2013 report from the EU Joint Research Center put it, the school emphasizes “learner choice and empowerment in every possible area.”. The school’s aim is to foster an environment in which student and teacher together are jointly responsible for learning. Related: What’s school without grade levels?

Pedagogy

Pedagogy Project-Based Learning Tradition Research

An urban charter school achieves a fivefold increase in the percentage of its black and Latino graduates who major in STEM

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

So North Star methodically set about reinventing its approach to STEM, with the experiment yielding positive results— from 2013 through 2015, 33 percent of its alumni majored in STEM disciplines in college. Like a good STEM student, Mann started by doing his own research project.

Charter School

Charter School Psychology K-12 Project-Based Learning

Innovation academies help build shared understanding, capacity, and commitment

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 21, 2016

We analyzed and strengthened our own personal and professional networks (both digital and analog), saw how connectedness is transforming both group interaction and individual relationships, and examined a number of connected learning initiatives for students and teachers. Related Posts. Connected Educator Month launches today.

Leadership

Leadership Project-Based Learning Economics Professional Development

Forget civics class: Students want to make a difference in real life

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The committees are housed within the Chicago school district’s social science and civic engagement department, which promotes civic engagement in and out of the classroom through K-12 social studies curriculum, service learning and civics-focused project-based learning. In 2012, it became the first U.S.

Civics

Civics Civic Engagement High School Government

Investing in leadership capacity: The amazing, wonderful District 59

Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Day 3: Problem- and Inquiry-Based Learning – Review of last session’s evaluations and our rules of play – Crowdsourcing – Understanding how Wikipedia really works – Crowdsourcing ideas for students and teachers – Essential elements of project-based learning – PBL v.

Leadership

Leadership Professional Development Geography Project-Based Learning

Most families have given up virtual school, but what about students who are still thriving online?

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2023

They also organized an in-person component: Once a week, students would gather in reserved classrooms in a local elementary school, for activities such as science experiments, project-based learning and reading groups. More than 250 kids signed up for SpaRRk.

Charter School

Charter School K-12 Middle School Elementary School

How to unlock students’ internal drive for learning

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2019

In Chicago, a charter school made its commitment to this goal very clear, choosing the name Intrinsic Schools when it launched in 2013 to serve students in grades seven through 12.

Middle School

Middle School Tradition Elementary School High School

My First Year

Rosie the History Teacher

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

My Job Hunt I graduated with my teaching degree in December 2013 and landed my dream job at a children’s museum working as their education director/exhibit designer/volunteer coordinator. Then I got down to the important work of mapping out my classes for the year and trying to plan some lessons and Project Based Learning.

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Museum Charter School History Project-Based Learning

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Most families have given up virtual school, but what about students who are still thriving online?

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