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.

Pedagogy 248

Pedagogy Project-Based Learning Library Research 248

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2024

It reminds me of other progressive teaching approaches, from inquiry learning to project-based learning, for which researchers have documented remarkable results with masterful teachers. Even with ideal students, it also seems like it takes a special teacher to pull off this kind of teaching.

Tradition 144

Tradition Middle School Project-Based Learning Psychology 144

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

For example, in history, students need to interpret documents in light of their sources, seek corroboration and put them in their historical context. That kind of analysis isn’t relevant in science, where the source of a document isn’t as important as following the scientific method.

Critical Thinking 112

Critical Thinking Research Teaching Education 112

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 13, 2019

He has gone on to create a platform called Be Anything to support project-based learning. “Some of those things can be more engaging than your traditional, boring dashboard, but at the end of the day, I want to do my Instagram on Instagram.”.

Junior High 111

Junior High Project-Based Learning Educational Technology High School 111

Anthropology News

JUNE 27, 2024

This particular tool allows users to upload their own documents—course readings, research articles, archives, etc.—so Humata markets itself as a tool that allows you to “chat your way through long documents” because “asking is faster than skimming.” Building such a repository was overly ambitious.

Anthropology 105

Anthropology Archaeology Pedagogy Archiving 105

ED Surge

JANUARY 12, 2024

Harnessing its learnings from KA Lite, the organization has evolved and expanded its impact by developing an ecosystem of open products and tools called Kolibri. More recently, we worked to understand how to leverage Kolibri to support project-based learning to improve foundational skills through a new project in Uganda.

EdTech 111

EdTech Education Library Project-Based Learning 111

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2020

According to school district documents , the separate track of courses, which was limited to “extremely gifted” (read white) students, appealed to white families. For instance, Seattle Public Schools began offering advanced courses in the 1980s through its “Individual Progress Program” to prevent white families from leaving the district.

Inclusive Curriculum 128

Inclusive Curriculum Middle School Project-Based Learning Public School 128

ED Surge

MARCH 15, 2024

To be clear, this assignment would require students to analyze documents and write their own responses using evidence, which are important skills of course, but it would inevitably lead to me manically red inking papers that ultimately were written because I assigned an essay that would only ever be read by me. This isn’t a novel idea.

American History 134

American History World History Social Studies History 134

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

Elementary School 112

Elementary School Economics Project-Based Learning Tradition 112

Teaching American History

JANUARY 5, 2024

Established in 1996, this national nonprofit helps schools and school districts implement project-based learning, in which students acquire academic knowledge while completing projects that put that knowledge to work. Project-based learning lends itself to an interdisciplinary approach.

Teaching 52

Teaching Project-Based Learning American History Historic Sites 52

Dr. Shannon Doak

MAY 28, 2024

Focusing on the Process of Learning Instead of hinging student success on a single exam, we should focus on the process of learning itself. Continuous, formative assessments that provide feedback throughout the learning journey can be far more effective.

Education 58

Education Project-Based Learning Critical Thinking Geography 58

Students of History

JANUARY 3, 2023

For US History, that can be reading (or even listening to) this short article on the stock market crash of 1929 and then organizing the important parts of the article into their interactive notebook: This allows students to be hands on with their learning and easily combine a digital resource with a paper/pencil activity.

Social Studies 52

Social Studies Teaching Historic Sites Primary Sources 52

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2017

With this “Real-World Learning” program, ChiTech joins a growing number of schools devoting big chunks of the year to internships, despite the perennial classroom time crunch. The internships are also part of a larger turnaround effort at ChiTech, centered on project-based learning.

High School 79

High School Project-Based Learning Psychology Charter School 79