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Beth Dichter's curator insight,
January 19, 2015 7:52 PM
What happens when you take a kindergarten class and create a project-based learning opportunity on a local issue? In this case amazing success. What is critical is to provide appropriate scaffolding so that all students (included English Language Learners) are comfortable and able to help with the presentation. If you have concerns about implementing PBL in your classroom this article may help you realize that it can be done, even in kindergarten. Click through to the post to read this uplifting article. |
Stephania Savva, Ph.D's curator insight,
May 10, 2016 5:04 PM
An innovative perspective on teaching and learning based on empirical fieldwork undertaken with primary aged students for a doctoral thesis investigation.
Dr. Deborah Brennan's curator insight,
June 7, 2015 5:56 PM
Preparing our students with the necessary skills for post-secondary career and college is critical, but especially for our poverty students. Too often, school is the only venue to provide these thinking, collaboration, and problem solving skills. However, many poverty schools under the pressure of standardized testing are stuck in a remediation routine of filling gaps in content, reading, and math. We must provide time for teachers to collaborate and plan integrated lessons that integrate these higher level thinking skills into their content areas.
Katie Catania's curator insight,
August 5, 2015 9:10 AM
What skills do learners need today to be prepared to be a leader as they move through school and into careers? Google commissioned a study and this post provides a short video that discusses key findings as well as a link to the final report, Driving the Skills Agenda: Preparing Students for the Future. The Executive Summary provides a number of key findings, including the ones listed below. (The text below is quoted from the report.) * Problem solving, team working and communication are the skills that are currently most in demand in the workplace. * Education systems are not providing enough of the skills that students and the workplace need. * Some students are taking it into their own hands to make up for deficiencies within the education system. * Technology is changing teaching, but education systems are keeping up with the transformation rather than leading it. The full report provides additional information, including a number of visuals as well as case studies. As educators it is important that we consider the skills our learners will need in the future, and this report provides insight into some of what will be needed.
Beth Dichter's curator insight,
June 30, 2013 11:50 AM
Jackie Gerstein continues to discuss "the other 21st skills" addressing resilience in this post. As you read this post think about your students. Do you provide them with opportunities to grow these skills/dispositions? Research in this field shows that teachers make a difference. Below are a few of the points from the post. * All individuals have the power to transform and change * Teachers and schools have the power to transform lives * It’s how teachers do what they do that counts * Teachers’ beliefs in innate capacity start the change process As you read through this post think about your classroom, your students, and ask yourself if there are new ways you might help your students build their resiliency. As always additional information as well as links to resources are available by clicking through.
Kaylin Burleson's curator insight,
June 30, 2013 2:43 PM
We must not forget that in order to accomplish the four Cs it takes timer and effort. One must not be afraid to try and try again if needed to succeed. |