Professional Learning for Teachers. CAEP - Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation. CRADLE - Center for Research on Activity, Development, and Learning - University of Helsinki - Faculty of Behavioural Sciences. Professor John Krinsky, Associate Professor at The City College of New York, and Colin Barker, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University, retired, will give lectures in the launching seminar of the new project 'Learning in Productive Social Movements', headed by Professor Yrjö Engeström. The seminar will take place on April 23 and 24, at CRADLE, LIBRARY ROOM 334, Siltavuorenpenger 3A and on Skype/ call conceptformation, one on each day from 14:00 to 16:00. The title of Colin Barker´s talk is ‘Expansive learning under fire’.
The reading article for this is "Fear, laughter and collective power: The Making of Solidarity at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk, Poland, August 1980. " John Krinsky's title is "Learning and Leadership: Homeless Activism in a Housing Coalition in New York City. " Krinsky's reading is titled as 'Learning in Productive Social Movements'. Laura Seppänen, Hanna Toiviainen & Mari Kira, 2014: Palveluverkostojen asiakasymmärrys muutoksessa. Dr. TeachingWorks. Hutchins School of Liberal Studies. "The University is a community of scholars that has as its primary purpose to unsettle the minds of students, to widen their horizons, to inflame their intellect... " — Robert Maynard Hutchins, Founder "I cannot stress how thankful I am to have taken part in Hutchins...I came into Sonoma as a closed-minded and shy student, and I left Sonoma as an empowered woman ready to debate, defend, and take on the world.
The Hutchins School of Liberal Studies is a unique school within the larger institution of Sonoma State University. As students advance their education in the Hutchins School, they have the option of choosing between three different educational tracks, based on their interests and career aspirations. Creating Classrooms We Need: 8 Ways Into Inquiry Learning. If kids can access information from sources other than school, and if school is no longer the only place where information lives, what, then happens to the role of this institution?
“Our whole reason for showing up for school has changed, but infrastructure has stayed behind,” said Diana Laufenberg, who taught history at the progressive public school Science Leadership Academy for many years. Laufenberg provided some insight into how she guided students to find their own learning paths at school, and enumerated some of these ideas at SXSWEdu last week. 1. BE FLEXIBLE. The less educators try to control what kids learn, the more students’ voices will be heard and, eventually, their ability to drive their own learning. But that requires a flexible mindset on the part of the teacher.
“That’s a scary proposition for teachers,” Laufenberg said. 2. Laufenberg’s answer: Get them curious enough in the subject to do research on their own. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Related. Radical Math. The Next Move -- Metaphorically Speaking. All Videos. Online: Only A Teacher: Teachers Today: Linda D. Hammond. Ann CookLinda Darling HammondDean EastmanAurora FlemingTerri GrassoCarolyn LawrenceTsianina LomawaimaFrank McCourtLorraine MonroeTom MooneyBrian SheehyGerry SpecaSandy WarnerAlex White Interview With Linda Darling Hammond Linda Darling Hammond is Professor of Education at Stanford University and Director of the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future.
Q: What problems do we need to address in the structure of schools today? Well, I actually think there are two big problems in the way that we run schools today. One is that the schools we have now are constructed as though teaching doesn't matter, and secondly they're constructed as though relationships don't matter.
We have this idea that if we just give them the textbooks to follow and the test to give and the procedures to, you know, pursue, that the kids will just magically get taught adequately, without realizing that teaching, when it's good teaching, is reciprocal. Q: What can we do to help teachers do their best work?