Resources for Getting Started With Project-Based Learning. Just getting started with project-based learning (PBL)? Our curated list of resources for educators new to PBL should help you. Before you get started, be sure to check out Edutopia's PBL page, including information about the research behind effective PBL practices. You can also connect with Edutopia's community to learn and share PBL tips. PBL Defined and Clarified What the Heck is PBL? By Heather Wolpert-Gawron (2015) In project-based learning, students show what they learn as they journey through the unit, interact with its lessons, collaborate with each other, and assess themselves and each other. Video What Should "Gold Standard" PBL Include?
Stories and Examples My PBL Failure: 4 Tips for Planning Successful PBL, by Katie Spear (2015) Here are four lessons learned from a failed PBL unit: align with the school calendar, allow planning time, carefully create the topic and guiding question, and collaborate with peers. Other Tips From Teachers and Experts. What Project-Based Learning Is — and What It Isn’t. Screenshot/High Tech High The term “project-based learning” gets tossed around a lot in discussions about how to connect students to what they’re learning. Teachers might add projects meant to illustrate what students have learned, but may not realize what they’re doing is actually called “project-oriented learning.” And it’s quite different from project-based learning, according to eighth grade Humanities teacher Azul Terronez.
Terronez, who teaches at High Tech Middle, a public charter school in San Diego, Calif says that when an educator teaches a unit of study, then assigns a project, that is not project-based learning because the discovery didn’t arise from the project itself. And kids can see through the idea of a so-called “fun project” for what it often is – busy work. “If you inspire them to care about it and draw parallels with their world, then they care and remember.” For Terronez, the goal is to always connect classroom learning to its applications in the outside world. See How You Can Magically Multiply Large Numbers In 3 Seconds. Mnemonic as a technique is not a newly conceived idea. Back in 1910, there was a published book with the title, ‘ Magician’s Tricks: How They are Done’ by Henry Hatton and Adrian Plate. This interesting book presents and discusses proofs that the mnemonic idea has already been used by Harry Kellar, a magician who gained popularity during the 1800s.
Kellar is believed to have used mnemonic for obtaining the cubes of two-digit numerals at lightning speed. Below is a quote from the book: While it is not within the province of this book to go into a study of a system of artificial memory, there are certain conjuring tricks frequently presented to the public as “Mental Phenomena,” that have a system of this kind for their groundwork, as, for example, the following which depend, mainly, on numbers, for their effects: “Second Sight” the memorizing of a long list of words at one reacting; the instantaneous raising of any two numbers to the cube or third power… How Mnemonic Works So therefore: Take Control Of The Noisy Class - Video 2 | Take Control Of The Noisy Class. Video 2: How to Get Students Sat Down and Ready to Work **Important** Don’t miss the key strategies revealed at 1:00 minute, 3:00 minutes, 7:30 minutes & 9:45 minutes This video explains a four-step process to get students in the classroom, sat down and ready to work with minimal fuss and disruption.
You’ll learn how to give an instruction that will get your students LISTENING straight away as well as a clever way to filter out trouble-makers before they have chance to disrupt your lesson. Make sure you download and read the FREE handout for this video (Below) as it explains further details about this method. You may need to right-click the following links and select Save Link As to download the file to your computer Now watch video 3 for a novel strategy for getting students’ attention and maintaining their focus throughout the lesson Thoughts?
Talk soon, Rob Plevin, Director, Behaviour Needs Ltd. Classroom Management Strategies | Innovative positive reinforcement strategies. Most teachers know that positive reinforcement is a very powerful classroom management strategy – it’s certainly the approach we recommend in Needs Focused Classroom Management. The problem is, praise phrases such as ‘well done’ and ‘This is fantastic Jonny’, tend to get very tiresome by the end of a lesson and they lose their effectiveness. To be really effective, there needs to be some variety in the way you acknowledge appropriate student behaviours so in this post I thought I’d share a few of our ‘innovative positive reinforcement strategies’ from our Take Control of the Noisy Class program. If you like them, please leave a comment in the box below… i) The victory dance.
Teach students to develop their own, personalised ten second ‘Victory Dance’. Ii) Visual Cheers Issue all students with a special ‘Wooo! Iii) Silent Cheers. Teach students to reward fellow class-members for good work and good behaviour with a silent cheer. Iv) And the winner is … Classroom Management Strategies | Innovative positive reinforcement strategies. DPS project helps math skills sprout. Teacher Resources from SDE. Teacher Resources from SDE. Concept to Classroom: Tapping into multiple intelligences - Explanation. What is the theory of multiple intelligences (M.I.)? Howard Gardner claims that all human beings have multiple intelligences. These multiple intelligences can be nurtured and strengthened, or ignored and weakened. He believes each individual has nine intelligences: Verbal-Linguistic Intelligence -- well-developed verbal skills and sensitivity to the sounds, meanings and rhythms of words Mathematical-Logical Intelligence -- ability to think conceptually and abstractly, and capacity to discern logical or numerical patterns Musical Intelligence -- ability to produce and appreciate rhythm, pitch and timber Visual-Spatial Intelligence -- capacity to think in images and pictures, to visualize accurately and abstractly Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence -- ability to control one's body movements and to handle objects skillfully Interpersonal Intelligence -- capacity to detect and respond appropriately to the moods, motivations and desires of others.
According to Gardner, Explanation | | | | Learning Style Inventories. Global rating average: 0.0 out of 50.00.00.00.00.0 These sites have free online assessments for discovering students’ learning styles. There are descriptions about various learning styles, including Howard Gardner’s multiple intelligence theory. Also includes an article that criticizes learning style theory. Grades Links Concept to Classroom: Tapping into Multiple Intelligences This site explains Howard Gardner's multiple intelligence theory. Education Standards Request State Standards. How to Differentiate Instruction. How to Differentiate Instruction What's All the Hype? Unfortunately, our images of school are almost factory images, so school is very standardized. But kids don't come in standard issue. The challenge is having teachers question the standardized notion of school and then helping kids realize there's a better way to do school. (Carol Ann Tomlinson, Associate Professor of Educational Leadership, Foundations, and Policy; The Curry School of Education, University of Virginia) Effective teachers have been differentiating instruction for as long as teaching has been a profession.
It has to do with being sensitive to the needs of your students and finding ways to help students make the necessary connections for learning to occur in the best possible way. What The Research Tells Us About Differentiate Instruction There are three bodies of research worth mentioning. 1) Brain-based Research 2) Learning Styles and Multiple Intelligences 3) Authentic Assessment Brain-based Research on Learning.
Dr. Kathie Nunley's Layered Curriculum Web Site for Educators. Math Workshop Model: Teaching Elementary Mathematics. How do I incorporate math workshop into my classroom? Grouping Students There are some decisions that need to be made when putting groups together. Certainly personalities need to be considered. We all know that not every student will get along with each person in the class. There is no right or wrong way in grouping your kids. I feel that mixing the abilities in groups is more advantageous to everyone.
The number of students in each group will vary based on your classroom size and time alotment for math. Materials and Resources The easiest thing to incorporate is a math notebook. Games and activities can be found in many places. How will math workshop benefit my students? In my journey through moving my instruction to a math workshop model, my students never ceased to amaze me. How does math workshop benefit me as the teacher? I will tell you that I have moved into this method of instruction slowly. Professional Development. ATTENTION TEACHERS OF K - 8 MATHEMATICS! Join us for our in-depth look at the SBAC test Spring of 2014! Common Core Flyer Spring 2014 Year 5 of Project PRIME (formerly AFA) - Please see the attached flyer and register your school team as soon as possible!
Sessions begin this month! Project PRIME Flyer for 2013 - 2014 Brief description of Project PRIME for Administrators District Letter for 2013 - 2014 E-Seminars are available at NCTM You can find professional development topics such as: Assessment Considerations for RTI in Mathematics Implementing the Grades 6-8 Common Core State Standards with NCTM Resources Implementing the Grades 9-12 Common Core State Standards with NCTM ResourcesUsing Multiple Representation in Algebra (Grades 6-12) Research Articles Best Practices in Mathematics: Better Evidence-Based Education Components of an Effective K - 12 Mathematics Classroom Investigations - an MSP Project Report Inquiry in Mathematics Role of Questioning Teacher Quality: How Teachers Learn Highlights.
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