Students as Allies in Improving Their Schools
What if teachers and students became steady allies rather than frequent adversaries in their daily classroom encounters? With support from MetLife Foundation, What Kids Can Do has explored this question for several years in an initiative called “Students as Allies.” In Chicago, Houston, Oakland, Philadelphia, and St. Louis, What Kids Can Do has collaborated with… Read More ›
How Building a Car Can Drive Deeper Learning
This video highlights the importance of real-world application to drive a deeper learning. Math used to be a struggle for 14-year-old Kathryn, until she fell in love with cars and started a hands-on project to build her own. Now the math matters and makes sense, and a whole new world of learning has opened up for… Read More ›
Strategies for Student-centered Discussion
Watch a teacher lead a student-centered discussion in her classroom and discuss strategies. Source Organization: Teaching Channel VISIT THE RESOURCE
Mid-Project Rubric Review
Hear Ms. Hobbs describe the Common Instructional Framework elements utilized in her classroom: Collaborative Learning, Scaffolding and Questioning. She also shares the mid-project rubric and how students benefit from it. Source Organization: TeachingChannel VISIT THE RESOURCE
10 Expectations Students have for their Learning
We hear often of the “high expectations” schools must have of and for their students, yet we seldom hear of the expectations students have of their schools. Students’ expectations constitute the new “rules of engagement” in the relationship that young people want with their schools. Source Organization: Leaving to Learn Visit the Resource
Student Voice: Experiencing Deeper Learning Through PBL
Although high school student Rahil had some academic struggles after immigrating from Fiji just a few years ago, he found opportunity and purpose in the project-based curriculum at Impact Academy. For more information about deeper learning, visit http://www.edutopia.org/blog/deeper-l… Source Organization: edutopia VISIT THE RESOURCE
What Does Deeper Learning Look Like?
In this video, you meet the students and teachers of City Arts and Education Technology (CAT). The high school experience at CAT is entirely focused on supporting students so they can be successful in college, career and life. Staff and students alike are very focused on creating an understanding, a culture, and an expectation of… Read More ›
Assessing Their Own Work: Students as Active Participants
This video, part of a playlist of student-centered ideas showcases how students can be active participants in assessing their own work. For so many years, students would receive grades and not know where they came from, what assignments led up to them, how they would be assessed. Now they’re involved in not only creating the units… Read More ›
Student- centered Learning: How Flipping Creates Choice for Students
Can you imagine giving a classroom of students the ability to create their own class? Brian has done just that by creating a class where choice is king and students have the freedom to work at their own pace. Brian can now encourage and facilitate more relevant, one-to-one learning for his students. Source Organization: TechSmith… Read More ›
Deeper Learning at City Arts and Education Technology High School
In this video, Sha’nice Patterson, a student at one of the Envision schools, talks about the impact CAT had on her education. CAT’s deeper learning approach—emphasizing critical thinking, communications, learning to learn, working collaboratively—helps students master core academic content and prepares them for a 21st century world. Source Organization: Hewlett Foundation
Teaching for Tomorrow: Flipped Learning
How students are learning is changing, just ask Aaron Sams, a Flipped Learning Pioneer. In Flipped Learning, students watch podcasts of their teacher’s lectures on their own time and then spend their time in the classroom applying what they learned at home. This allows students to learn at their own pace with the ability to… Read More ›
How to Learn? From Mistakes
In this TedTalk video, Diana Laufenberg shares three surprising things she has learned about teaching — including a key insight about learning from mistakes. Source Organization: TED