Phase 5: Designing Professional Learning Opportunities. We Are New Yorkers: A Reading List for NYC Immigrant Heritage Week | The New York Public Library. Happy Immigrant Heritage Week! Since 2004, New York City has celebrated Immigrant Heritage Week around April 17, coordinated by the Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs. April 17, 1907 is the date that New York’s immigrant receiving station, Ellis Island, saw its busiest day ever, processing a record 11,747 new arrivals in a single day.
This year, New York City Immigrant Heritage Week is April 17–April 23. Many free events celebrating our cultural diversity are scheduled for this week in NYPL branches and other locations throughout New York City. A great way to learn about and celebrate the histories and contributions of New York City’s diverse immigrant communities is by reading their stories. Please note that only books that take place partly in New York have been included, so many wonderful books about the immigrant experience, such as The Namesake by Jumpa Lahiri and We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo, are not on this list.
Memoirs and Biographies of New York Immigrants. Creating a Canon: Project Based Learning for Literature - AP LIT HELP. In an attempt to introduce project-based learning into our sophomore American literature classrooms, my colleagues and I, created the American Literary Canon project. What began as a way to try and get students engaged in the literature of America, and move beyond reading a bunch of dead white guys (and, in all honesty, a way to make our end of year assessing less strenuous), has now evolved into an assignment that allows students to explore literature that is meaningful to them, as well as, the opportunity for students to create personal artifacts of their learning.
Typically, the project begins in the first quarter. In the early phases of the project, I spend a few class periods defining canon and making the concept of the American literary canon less abstract. I have had great success with students generating “canons” of their own. This project spans an entire year. Students create two meaningful artifacts that become representations of their learning. Complete Guide to Project-Based Learning | Student Guide. Modern science continues to develop in such a way that the older generation is constantly trying to catch up with the younger generation’s adaptation to new developments and technologies.
It is only logical that we should utilize our students’ familiarity with technology from a young age to maximize their engagement and learning by integrating it into our curriculum. Project-Based Learning grabs hold of this idea and fosters deep learning and autonomy by using technology to help students engage in issues and questions relevant to their lives. This resource will direct you to a variety of resources on this approach, the research behind it, and how you can use it in your class to transform your students into engaged and interested independent thinkers. What is Project-Based Learning? Research Supporting Project-Based Learning Buck Institute of Education highlights a study by Dr. How To Design a Project Teacher Resources Project Examples. Complete Guide to Project-Based Learning | Student Guide. Meridian: Getting A Grip On Project-Based Learning. Abstract Project-based learning is centered on the learner and affords learners the opportunity for in-depth investigations of worthy topics.
The learners are more autonomous as they construct personally-meaningful artifacts that are representations of their learning. This article examines the theoretical foundations of project-based learning, particularly constructivism and constructionism, and notes the similarities and differences among implementations, including project-based science (Blulmenfeld et al., 1991), disciplined inquiry (Levstik & Barton, 2001) and WebQuests (Dodge, 1995).
In addition, an anatomy of a model case will be considered using a WebQuest example developed by the author, describing seven characteristics common among the various implementations of project-based learning. Complete Guide to Project-Based Learning | Student Guide. 15v06w bestpractices 2014 project. Pick a Project | Making Projects Click. English Project Ideas for Language Arts Project-Based Learning | hubpages. Using music to engage year 10 students with poetry. My emo poetry project is an oldie but a goodie. I’m on to my third time teaching it and even though I’m doing things slightly different (as we always should), it’s still the idea of exploring poetry through popular music that makes it a success.
OK, it’s only three lessons in but I still reckon it’s gonna be a success. Here’s the project outline (it’s evolved a bit since I first created it, drafts and more drafts as I get things to a happy standard to be published): So, I just want to record here the activities that my students have been working on as a kind of extended hook lesson… it’s gone over three lessons. The first lesson students were shown 6 different music videos – three songs were ‘punk’ and three were ’emo’, of course I didn’t tell my students that.
Each student was asked to read out their ideas about one of the six songs, and there was some great insight shared with one student suggesting that ‘God Save the Queen’ made them imagine the whole of society going up in flames. Project basedFinal. Getting Started with Literature and Project-Based Learning. Merion Taynton , English language arts teacher in an international school in China Posted 04/29/2015 11:31PM | Last Commented 11/28/2016 9:49AM OK, it’s time to stop testing the water with a toe and jump with both feet into project based learning. Grade 10 have today made the leap with me. A leap of faith? I hope not. But enough with the metaphors. Day One: Introduction of the Unit I introduced the project to the class.
Topic: 19th Century European Literature: From Romanticism to Realism Big Idea: Expressions of the heart and life’s lessons: the age of Romanticism and the emergence of Realism Essential Questions: How do literature and social change connect? Learning Outcomes: (these come from our curriculum) Produce a variety of texts appropriate for audience and purposeDetermine central themes or ideas in a textCompare and contrast themes and ideas within and between textsOrganise and develop ideas for the purpose and audience It’s early days.
Day Two: Providing Structure Some of the topics are: Introduction to Project Based Learning (PBL) Process. Benefits Of Collaborative Teaching For Interdisciplinary Learning (Deeper Learning) Project Based Learning To Build A Self-Directed Learner (Deeper Learning) Project-Based Learning Building Blocks (Deeper Learning)