The School Projects Idea Book
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The School Projects Idea Book
Comprehensive teacher's resource book that provides 30 creative projects for teachers to give their students.
Design School Confidential
Every great design school in the world is defined, in part, by the work of its students at any given time. The various project challenges given to a class determine the success of a school’s pedagogy, but also the ingenuity of its faculty and students. This book features fifty real-world class assignments from top design programs at universities around the world, and examines the resulting student projects. From undergraduate to graduate work and basic class challenges to final thesis’s, students delivered a wide variety of graphic and multimedia design projects from print to motion to exhibition. The book has three functions: 1) To exhibit a wide range of challenging problems and successful solutions. 2) Provide practical models to be inspired by and learn from. 3) Examine how sophisticated design school projects are and what value they have in relation to real-world practice.
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