ED Surge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

It’s also important to equip them with professional-quality templates and assets so that the projects they’re creating actually look like professional outputs. Pedagogically, this approach is real-world, authentic, project-based learning. Traditional education has often taught students to swim in a controlled pool.

Advocacy 102

Advocacy Project-Based Learning Tradition Economics 102

The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2020

Through this program, our brick-and-mortar teachers work alongside ALDCA teachers to combine a rigorous academic course load — which includes English, math and social studies — with online experiential learning opportunities like internships, job shadowing and project-based learning. So, how does it all work?

Tradition 84

Tradition Project-Based Learning Lesson Plan Social Studies 84

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.

Teaching 165

Teaching Project-Based Learning Tradition High School 165

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2024

For the first eight sessions, half the students had a traditional review class. The kids who had been taught via traditional, explicit instruction switched to reviewing the remaining algebra topics through their errors. And the kids who had been correcting their errors received eight sessions of traditional test prep.

Tradition 130

Tradition Middle School Psychology Project-Based Learning 130

Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 10, 2022

Teaching has always been a demanding profession, but this school year takes the cake! I’d argue that the answer is , in part, giving them the permission and tools to rethink traditional workflows. It makes sense why so many educators are feeling mentally, emotionally, and physically exhausted.

Project-Based Learning 187

Project-Based Learning Professional Development Tradition Critical Thinking 187

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.

Project-Based Learning 83

Project-Based Learning Pedagogy K-12 Research Skills 83

Catlin Tucker

JUNE 25, 2024

This power dynamic also places an enormous burden on teachers, who find themselves doing all of the planning, teaching, reviewing, reflecting, assessing, and communicating with families. Why did we get into teaching in the first place? What biases or assumptions might be influencing my teaching practices?

Critical Thinking 78

Critical Thinking Psychology Project-Based Learning Tradition 78

ED Surge

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Watch this video to see what teaching and learning in UNIVERSE looks like! EdSurge: How did your teaching journey lead you to try UNIVERSE with your college students? How did I teach Arabic when I had no clue what the individual letters even looked like? Who’s going to teach them? I asked them to create websites.

Tutoring 115

Tutoring Project-Based Learning Tradition History 115

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.

Project-Based Learning 145

Project-Based Learning Library Professional Development Tradition 145

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.

Project-Based Learning 166

Project-Based Learning Tradition High School Teaching 166

ED Surge

JUNE 13, 2022

This informed my teaching from the get-go, while frequent meetings with their parents enriched my insight into their context. I recommend project-based learning as a way to help students develop and gather feedback on skills not necessarily emphasized in traditional instruction. Recommended Resources.

Project-Based Learning 100

Project-Based Learning Tradition Teaching Education 100

ED Surge

MAY 5, 2023

Research indicates that Generation Z students are technologically savvy and appreciate interdisciplinary, project-based learning experiences. She supports students in exploring their gifts and interests through projects and encourages educators to start by substituting a traditional assignment with an opportunity to create.

Advocacy 107

Advocacy K-12 Critical Thinking Project-Based Learning 107

The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2019

Seventh grade students offer feedback on projects by sixth graders at Stony Brook School, where about 40 students in each grade get interdisciplinary, project-based learning. It’s a cool way to learn something,” Roman said. Instead of learning and taking a test. It’s more free.”.

Project-Based Learning 112

Project-Based Learning Tradition Middle School Social Studies 112

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2024

After finishing school this summer, she’ll participate in a year-long placement to confirm that teaching is the right career for her before going to a technical college. You don’t learn about a job in school,” said Sonja Gryzik, who teaches English, math and career orientation at the school Neriman attends, Ursula Kuhr Schule.

Middle School 115

Middle School High School Project-Based Learning Teaching 115

The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2018

PHILADELPHIA — In a city that’s struggled to meet the educational needs of many of its children, especially its most vulnerable ones, a select group of district high schools is shunning the traditional classroom model in which teachers dispense knowledge from the front of the room and measure progress with tests. I’m into the process.”.

Project-Based Learning 95

Project-Based Learning Leadership High School Tradition 95

Edthena

JANUARY 28, 2021

Take time to block out the current uncertainties of the world and reflect on what you have control over: your teaching practice. However, this activity will help you build resilience, an essential mindset given the current teaching landscape. What proves that students actually learned? What didn’t?

Project-Based Learning 52

Project-Based Learning Professional Development Tradition Cultures 52

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. This was by far one of the most powerful learning experiences I ever engaged in as a student. His lessons were light on direct instruction and heavy on authentic connections and application.

Critical Thinking 396

Critical Thinking Pedagogy Learning Science Tradition 396

Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 9, 2018

For instance, the Hewlett Foundation and the American Institutes for Research have been studying ‘deeper learning schools’ in project- and inquiry-based learning networks such as High Tech High, the New Tech Network, Big Picture Learning, and the EL Schools. Dreaming big at Iowa BIG.

Project-Based Learning 104

Project-Based Learning Tradition Cultures High School 104

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2019

The students do this through nine-week long, interdisciplinary projects that the Finnish call “phenomenon-based learning,” a term coined by the country’s National Agency for Education. Phenomenon-based learning is a lot like project-based learning, a more familiar term in the United States.

Geography 109

Geography Project-Based Learning Tradition Humanities 109

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Related: A study finds promise in project-based learning for young low-income children. Learning gains were measured by comparing before and after tests. Tenenbaum’s advice isn’t to get rid of traditional instruction but to use peer discussions to reinforce a lecture.

Psychology 144

Psychology Project-Based Learning Research Tradition 144

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2019

Called the Telstar Freshman Academy, or TFA, it involves all its district’s ninth graders in a hands-on learning method that uses outdoor-based projects and community-building activities as ways to teach across several disciplines. Emily Kaplan for The Hechinger Report. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

Project-Based Learning 87

Project-Based Learning Lesson Plan High School Tradition 87

A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 15, 2011

We learn more through interactive projects and our own successes/failures than through traditional means of assessment (i.e. The learning process is a partnership between teacher and student. The students want and need a voice in how they learn and how they demonstrate their learning.

Project-Based Learning 247

Project-Based Learning Tradition Leadership High School 247

ED Surge

APRIL 18, 2023

For more than 100 years, high schools and colleges have relied on the same stalwart tool to measure teaching and learning: the clock. Now, the institution that developed the time-based standard more than a century ago that is used throughout education is calling for the creation of a different way to quantify academic progress.

K-12 142

K-12 Civics Project-Based Learning High School 142

The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2019

But what else was she learning in this maker space? Plus, evidence-based assessments could improve the overall quality of project-based learning by helping educators tailor projects to specific skills and vet a lesson’s overall effectiveness. Related: Project-based learning and standardized tests don’t mix.

Education 111

Education Project-Based Learning Charter School Tradition 111

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2018

They’re in four out of the district’s five traditional schools and they’re well-stocked, a set-up that might come as a surprise given that Havre is a rural district near the Canadian border, a place one might not expect to see the latest technologies. Related: A study finds promise in project-based learning for young low-income children.

Project-Based Learning 82

Project-Based Learning Public School Elementary School Professional Development 82

Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 12, 2016

More recently, Van Meter has been diving deeply into project-based learning, standards-based grading, competency-based education, and flexible, modular schedules in which students can exercise some choice and determine how much time they need to spend on their various learning endeavors. Real projects.

Project-Based Learning 71

Project-Based Learning Library Tradition Teaching 71

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

At Impact Salish Sea Elementary, one of three elementary charter schools in the Seattle area run by Impact Public Schools, educators focus on “imaginary play,” like pretending to run a restaurant or hospital, as a tool to teach young children self-regulation and cognitive skills. The schools prioritize project-based learning and play.

Charter School 112

Charter School Psychology Project-Based Learning Public School 112

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2022

Its emphasis on ensuring that all students learn the required standards and competencies is a far cry from today’s schools in which time is held as a constant and each student’s learning is variable. Today’s system signals to students that it doesn’t matter if you stick with something because you’ll move on either way.

K-12 87

K-12 Project-Based Learning High School Tradition 87

Digital Promise

MAY 28, 2020

With the continuous rush of a traditional school day, many times those opportunities fall by the wayside. Similarly, educators are able to create more project-based learning opportunities for students that encourage creativity in the way students share and display their learning and comprehension.

EdTech 100

EdTech Elementary School Pedagogy Project-Based Learning 100

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Compared to children at a traditional school, students at Hellerup have a tremendous amount of freedom in how they work. Like traditional schools, Hellerup’s student body is divvied up into grades; students are assessed based on projects, portfolios, and standardized tests; and teachers follow the national curriculum.

Pedagogy 91

Pedagogy Project-Based Learning Tradition Research 91

Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 10, 2016

Co-located with a corporate startup accelerator at a former brownfield site of Iowa Steel, Iowa BIG is a project-based learning option for Cedar Rapids area high school students. Students spend half of their day at their traditional, ‘mother ship’ high school and the other half at Iowa BIG. Real projects.

Project-Based Learning 60

Project-Based Learning Tradition High School Teaching 60

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2021

We have a chance now to make it something that will change teaching and learning forever for the better.”. At the outset of the pandemic, schools nationwide had to make swift and drastic changes in public education to keep students learning. There’s a great deal of respect now that learning can happen outside of the four walls.

High School 133

High School Tradition Public School Tutoring 133

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2017

For anyone who’s spent time in an early childhood classroom, the idea that school should be as much about making friends and having fun as learning the alphabet will sound familiar. who attempt to replicate its project-based model. Like Macdonald, Meier began her teaching career as a kindergarten teacher.

High School 92

High School Project-Based Learning Charter School Elementary School 92

Digital Promise

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The opportunities VILS provided greatly helped foster this success while creating a newfound emphasis on project-based learning. Becoming a Verizon Innovative Learning School opened up a whole new world of teaching and learning for our schools,” added Danielle McClary, the VILS coach for both schools.

Pedagogy 90

Pedagogy Middle School Project-Based Learning Cultures 90

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2019

While some schools around the country are trying to personalize learning and, in doing so, to tap into students’ interests, Stipek estimates that most teaching minimizes students’ internal desire to learn. In traditional schools, it’s easier to offer a steady stream of rewards and punishments to keep students in line.

Middle School 112

Middle School Tradition Elementary School High School 112

Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 24, 2016

Two years ago he apparently had tried to give his students some choice in terms of both how they learned the material and their final work products but apparently student disinterest in the unit topic and/or how he framed the work were enough to overcome his early attempts at giving his students some agency and it went miserably.

Leadership 0

Leadership Project-Based Learning Critical Thinking Cultures 0

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

School leaders from across the state sought advice on teacher training, how to transition curriculum and what pitfalls to avoid as students began learning from home. She and her staff are seen as the experts in teaching kids from a distance. It’s one of the state’s only virtual schools operated by a traditional district.

Private School 58

Private School Charter School Tradition Project-Based Learning 58