Pbl In The Elementary Grades
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Thinking Through Project-Based Learning
Everything you need to know to lead effective and engaging project-based learning! Are you eager to try out project-based learning, but don't know where to start? How do you ensure that classroom projects help students develop critical thinking skills and meet rigorous standards? Find the answers in this step-by-step guide, written by authors who are both experienced teachers and project-based learning experts. Thinking Through Projects shows you how to create a more interactive classroom environment where students engage, learn, and achieve. Teachers will find: A reader-friendly overview of project-based learning that includes current findings on brain development and connections with Common Core standards, Numerous how-to's and sample projects for every K-12 grade level, Strategies for integrating project learning into all main subject areas, across disciplines, and with current technology and social media and Ways to involve the community through student field research, special guests, and ideas for showcasing student work. Whether you are new to project-based learning or ready to strengthen your existing classroom projects, you'll find a full suite of strategies and tools in this essential book.
Teaching for a Living Democracy
This classroom narrative explores how teachers can build and sustain an intellectually and emotionally fulfilling teaching practice while changing the way students experience school. Written by an English and history teacher in a Philadelphia public high school, this book presents a framework of teaching for a living democracy”supporting learners to produce intellectually rigorous and creative work by designing instruction that intersects with students' lives and interests. The text offers project-based units of study and classroom practices that allow students to reconfigure understandings of themselves, their capabilities, and their roles in the world. Packed with student voices and the work of youth, this book provides a rich window into classroom practices that challenge authoritarian tendencies while cultivating dignity and agency. Book Features: Shares a vision of project-based inquiry learning that is rooted in systemic understandings of social change.Provides a pragmatic framework and tools to help teachers develop their practice in creative and sustainable ways.Shows how to support diverse learners, with a special focus on the experiences of students who struggle.Includes many classroom scenes and examples of curriculum design strategies. Offers the realistic perspective of a teacher working in an urban public high school. “The author’s argument for a ‘living democracy’ is both timely and compelling, illuminated with a richly detailed and accessible account of what it has meant to co-create a curriculum and pedagogy with his diverse group of urban students. A pedagogical tour de force, this book is a must-read for all those who seek new images of what it means to strive for and embrace a truly transformational view of schools and schooling.” —Susan L. Lytle, Professor Emerita of Education, University of Pennsylvania
PBL in the Elementary Grades, 2016 Ed
Would you like to conduct effective Project Based Learning in your classroom, but feel unsure about how to start? Or have you tried "doing a project" but it didn't turn out the way you wanted? Or have you done PBL in the past, but you're looking for new ideas or a more systematic process for planning and managing projects, to meet the demands of today's world of standards and testing? If your answer is "yes" to any of the above, this book is meant for you. Designed for teachers of kindergarten through 5th grade students, PBL in the Elementary Grades contains down-to-earth, classroom-tested advice, including: seven sample projects from different grade levels, anchored in various subject areas, with integrated goals for literacy and math; Step-by-step guidance to take you from generating ideas for projects to project planning and successful implementation; tips from experienced practitioners; planning tools and online resources plus project-ready rubrics and handouts. - Back cover.