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. What could you do at YOUR traditional school?

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Project-Based Learning Middle School Tradition Education 43

Teaching American History

JANUARY 5, 2024

George Hawkins , a 2019 graduate of TAH’s Master of Arts with a Specialization in Teaching American History and Government (MASTAHG) program , was named South Dakota Teacher of the Year in October. Hawkins sees teaching as team effort to that helps young people work and learn cooperatively.

Teaching 52

Teaching Project-Based Learning American History Historic Sites 52

Dr. Shannon Doak

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

In that earlier post, I highlighted the superficial adoption of technology in education, where tools were used to digitize traditional methods without fostering genuine innovation. The fundamental approach to teaching remained static, with technology serving as a veneer rather than a catalyst for change. in effect size.

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Education Project-Based Learning Tradition Critical Thinking 82

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?

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Tradition Project-Based Learning Lesson Plan Social Studies 94

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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Teaching Project-Based Learning Tradition High School 165

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

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.

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Tradition Middle School Psychology Project-Based Learning 137

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.

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Project-Based Learning Professional Development Tradition Critical Thinking 187

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?

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Critical Thinking Psychology Project-Based Learning Tradition 78

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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Project-Based Learning Pedagogy K-12 Research Skills 83

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.

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Tutoring Project-Based Learning Tradition Teaching 116

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

MARCH 14, 2024

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Subscribe today! And the way different teachers and schools approach the class differs greatly, even within a single district.

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K-12 Project-Based Learning High School Tradition 105

Dr. Shannon Doak

MAY 28, 2024

The traditional content-heavy curriculum, obsessed with low-level content mastery and memorization, no longer fits the bill for our rapidly evolving society. It’s crucial that we teach students how to learn, how to think critically, and how to use content as a vehicle for problem-solving. The answer, quite simply, is no.

Education 60

Education Project-Based Learning Critical Thinking Geography 60

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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Project-Based Learning Tradition High School Teaching 166

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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Pedagogy Project-Based Learning Library Research 225

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

Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 31, 2020

It is a tradition I have continued through the years. As an advocate of blended learning, my focus is on helping teachers design and facilitate learning experiences that are differentiated for specific groups of students and personalized for individual learners. 8 Projects can turn the world into our curriculum.

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Project-Based Learning Tradition History Teaching 218

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.

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Middle School High School Project-Based Learning Teaching 128

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?

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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.

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Critical Thinking Pedagogy Learning Science Tradition 396

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.

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Geography Project-Based Learning Tradition Humanities 121

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.

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Project-Based Learning Tradition Cultures High School 104

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. How did having more time impact your lesson planning?

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Project-Based Learning Lesson Plan Professional Development Tradition 168

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.

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Project-Based Learning Lesson Plan High School Tradition 96

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.

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Psychology Project-Based Learning Research Tradition 145

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.

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Project-Based Learning Tradition Leadership High School 247

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

AUGUST 16, 2021

Traditional middle schools are very authoritarian, controlling environments.” Here, learning is project-based, multi-grade and interdisciplinary. Traditional middle schools are very authoritarian, controlling environments,” said Ratliff. “A Related: Four new studies bolster the case for project-based learning.

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Middle School Psychology Elementary School Junior High 142

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.

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Project-Based Learning Public School Elementary School Professional Development 86

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.

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Charter School Psychology Project-Based Learning Public School 123

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.

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K-12 Project-Based Learning High School Tradition 100

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.

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Project-Based Learning Library Tradition High School 71

The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2018

Students may learn more. Two studies on how best to teach elementary schools students — one on the popular trend of “platooning” and one on the far less common practice of “looping” — at first would seem totally unrelated other than the fact that they both use silly words with double-o’s. Photo: Jamie Martines.

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Elementary School Economics Project-Based Learning Tradition 112

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.

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Pedagogy Project-Based Learning Tradition Research 100

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 94

EdTech Elementary School Pedagogy Project-Based Learning 94

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.

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High School Project-Based Learning Charter School Elementary School 102