A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

An array of strategies can be used, such as problem and project-based learning, performance tasks, personalization, independent open courseware studies, internships, and capstone experiences.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Technology has the potential to transform teaching and learning in a number of ways. One way it can be used to transform teaching and learning is by providing students with access to a wealth of information, including multimedia resources, educational apps, and online databases.

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Pedagogy Project-Based Learning Teaching Research 536

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2018

A study of project-based learning found that social studies scores were higher for second-grade students who learned this way, compared to students who were taught traditionally. The project-based kids also had slightly higher reading scores but their writing scores were no different.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 18, 2016

Most schools that dive deep into project-based learning tend to be smaller charter or magnet schools that have the ability to hire new educators and create new schedules and instructional paradigms from scratch. Projects at the school range from two to twelve weeks.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 25, 2019

As I was reading “From Transactional to Transformational Leadership” by Bernard Bass, I was struck by the parallels between leadership and teaching. In classrooms, teachers can embrace problem or project-based learning and teach students to work though the design thinking process, so they are confident approaching real-world problems.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 18, 2016

” It asks teachers a series of questions: Are we planning to continue teaching next year? If we could describe our perfect teaching assignment, what would it be? This year as I stared at the form and asked myself, what is your perfect teaching assignment? We would co-teach three block classes every other day.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 3, 2024

The Relevant Thinking Framework is a powerful tool that educators can use to enhance learning outcomes by aligning teaching methods with how students learn most effectively. Educators should encourage project-based learning, interdisciplinary approaches, and creative problem-solving.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 5, 2017

being a student in a student-centered classroom is hard & some kids just don't want to work that hard Click To Tweet I teach 9th and 10th grade, so my students have been in school for 10 years before they walk through my classroom door. This is what makes project-based learning hard for students.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 29, 2016

This year I transitioned from teaching English classes in isolation to co-teaching English, science, and technology with another teacher in a pilot program called N.E.W. When I initially pitched the program concept to my principal, I emphasized the co-teaching component. 1 Learning from Another Perspective.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

More than 200 of you responded to our survey and listed project-based learning (PBL) as a top interest. Pedagogical approaches related to PBL — such as challenge-based learning, problem-based learning, and inquiry-based learning — share common features.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 19, 2023

What is the best way to teach? Project-based learning is trendy. Advocates of project-based learning once tried to develop a curriculum to teach math, but backed off when they struggled to come up with good projects for teaching abstract math concepts and skills.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 3, 2011

The use of case studies is a powerful pedagogical approach to incorporate student-centered learning activities into lessons. As a science teacher I routinely utilized case studies as they provided a relevant context to what I was teaching. Incorporate characteristics of both problem and project-based learning.

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TeachThought

JULY 12, 2024

Here we have fundamental PC software like Microsoft Windows or Mac OS; we have productivity suites like Microsoft Office; we have web browsers like Google Chrome or Safari or Firefox; and we have niche programs like reading assessment tools or educational games, which function like what we’d now consider computer-based apps.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2020

To them, educators should teach significant topics like the 1950s and 1960s civil rights movement with more depth and breadth. history, education leaders have started to reckon with how to comprehensively teach history with an antiracism lens. And school districts are working to expand their curricula on race.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 15, 2011

GLHS is in the process of building a state of the art, three story learning environment that will blend traditional and contemporary (Starbucks) learning spaces, high powered wireless connectivity, project-based learning, and student voice/choice.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

They don’t have to teach a dizzying number of standards or move at a tightly defined pace. Allison DeGraaf, director of learning and innovation in Janesville, said district administrators are committed to helping teachers find that time between September and June. Related: Project-based learning and standardized tests don’t mix.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

Pedagogical techniques such as personalized, blended and project-based learning as well as differentiated instruction and student agency can lead to greater ownership amongst learners. Closure Learning increases when lessons are concluded in a manner that helps students organize and remember the point of the lesson.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

South from his peers was his passion for helping students learn and love the sciences. He didn’t teach science. We learned science. His lessons were light on direct instruction and heavy on authentic connections and application. All of his classes were amazing.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Schools brag that they teach it on their websites and in open houses to impress parents. But a fascinating review of the scientific research on how to teach critical thinking concludes that teaching generic critical thinking skills, such as logical reasoning, might be a big waste of time.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Exams and teaching to the test have become so ingrained in education that little to no room is left for creative learning, rich discussion, critical thought or the development of emotional intelligence. If I can remember each term and its definition, I will have set myself up for success in the class and on the final AP exam.

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Edthena

OCTOBER 6, 2021

When you think of culturally responsive teaching, you may not immediately think of dopamine and oxytocin. But the brain chemicals have a lot to do with the framework and approach to teaching. Knowing the brain science behind culture’s role in learning is immensely important for teachers who want to prioritize CRT.

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Cultures Teaching Project-Based Learning Humanities 98

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2021

Hameed’s students are participants in various programs through Hello Future , a nonprofit organization that works with teen refugees to bridge the education gap by teaching digital and financial literacy, critical thinking and entrepreneurship. The program teaches students how to use the internet as a tool for more than just communication.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 7, 2017

As I began to pilot NEW School this year, my goals were to: provide students with individualized learning paths. make time for conversations about where students are at in their learning. engage students in meaningful project-based learning. provide real-time feedback on student work.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Is it possible, they wonder, to teach all students at all levels together in one class? Today, the school requires subject teachers in each grade to teach the same content at the same time. I don’t think we’re teaching to the middle when we’re talking about ‘The Dead.’ But each story is relatively short. “If

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Teaching Economics High School Private School 141

Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 10, 2022

Teaching has always been a demanding profession, but this school year takes the cake! Teachers are navigating substitute teacher shortages, COVID protocols, and record numbers of absent students in addition to the normal demands of this job. It makes sense why so many educators are feeling mentally, emotionally, and physically exhausted.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Kentucky also is investing heavily in project-based learning , and the protocol is a nice bridging mechanism and support for that complex work. Teaching and leading for higher student engagement … even during a pandemic (aka How I spent my summer). Happy to chat or visit anytime! Related Posts.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

How does project-based learning support the development of soft skills? Project-based learning (PBL) inherently infuses soft skills into its DNA and can be an effective methodology for teachers and students in any classroom, not just career education. by demonstrating practical applications of knowledge.

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Project-Based Learning Middle School High School Critical Thinking 122

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

In the fall of 2016, increasingly frustrated by his inability to motivate his students despite his energetic teaching style and popularity inside the classroom, he was drawn to the idea that addressing emotional barriers might help them. And all three have been working with the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

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Teaching K-12 Civics Psychology 110

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 30, 2016

So many teachers trapped in a 50-minute schedule report feeling like they cannot embrace project-based learning, explore the value of makerspaces, or experiment with blended learning models. The big hurdle is time.

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Project-Based Learning Lesson Plan Professional Development Tradition 168

Edthena

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Valerie Minor, the coordinator of professional development and mentoring services at Keller Independent School District (TX), uses video coaching and choice boards to support professional learning across the district. This method ultimately engenders ownership around their professional learning.

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Professional Development Project-Based Learning Lesson Plan Teaching 117

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

According to Seydel, when teachers use the school grounds as a way to learn about social issues, they’re using their school as a three-dimensional textbook. For example, schools’ energy and water conservation, architecture and lunches are rich with potential for project-based learning. “We We can learn from a textbook.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 22, 2020

Explore how blended learning can help you partner with students to reimagine learning and find a realistic work-life balance! In my book, Balance with Blended Learning , I invite teachers to reimagine teaching and learning by partnering with students.

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Project-Based Learning Library Professional Development Tradition 145

The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2020

Teachers have said for decades that inflexibility on teaching, testing and innovation keep them from adapting to student needs. We can’t just teach content in school anymore. We have to teach students to seek out and demonstrate learning wherever they are. We should’ve listened.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 27, 2020

But I think all of the virtual schools that I’ve encountered still focus primarily on low-level learning, digitized and chunked into a digital adaptive learning system. I don’t think I’ve ever seen ‘deeper learning’ or inquiry- and project-based learning as a core tenet of a virtual school.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 31, 2020

They are spending evenings and weekends preparing to meet the demands of teaching in a pandemic. From a UDL perspective, student agency also creates opportunities for diverse groups of learners to decide how they want to learn, engage with information, or demonstrate their learning. #8

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ED Surge

JUNE 10, 2024

Innovative STEM programming requires a willingness to adopt emerging tools and technologies, as well as methodologies like project-based learning. We saw an opportunity to use Minecraft Education as a project-based learning tool in computer science, which is how Level Up Los Angeles was born.

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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. Teaching Machines. Princeton University Press.

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