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A word from a lurker.
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Maria Fleyshgakker Sep 21, 2010.
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- Tell about your involvement in education, and your ideals for collegial sharing
- I have been a HS Science and Math teacher for over 20 years, but it doesn't feel too long :) especially after I started using computer for my instructions :)
I work in the Bronx NY, observe my students grow and become adults, and can't get over how talented and gifted all of them are :) With the use of computers the students got a chance to show their creativity and independence.
So my ideal would be a school where every student can have a chance to find their individuality and purpose. Every student should have a say in his or her own program.
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Is "clean" from the past still "clean" today?
How did it happen that I started to care about garbage? I started to teach Environmental Science… Continue
Posted on February 14, 2009 at 4:38pm — 4 Comments
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PS I would love to read a forum specifically about PBL...
I read what you wrote on the "what are you doing right now" forum. Wow--lots of thinking going on. You and I are thinking about the same things, too, the Problem-based learning approach.
You wrote, "I decided to share this idea with others because we all are talking about inquiry method, project-based learning, problem solving and case study, but it is so hard to create even one really good and really inquiry based project that will help the kids to learn the basics of science, math, history or all of them together and gain the skills of a lifelong learner. How should you start? Where would you get your ideas? How do you know that what you have is better and relevant, not the usual stuff repeated again under a different name?"
I love the ideas you suggested, of having the students have a lot of choice in what gets explored--and starting with questions.
I've been doing a lot of experimenting with PBLs over the last year, and plan to rev it up even more next year (and it'll be easier because I'll have a class network, so we can post ongoing work).
There's something curious, appealing, interesting, and difficult about PBLs: if they're real explorations, as in students unleashed to search freely along lines of their own investigations, you never know where the studies are going to go. For one thing, it won't even be clear that the "discipline" will end up being the same. I mean, students could have a science question on something like invasives and the "demonstration of the learning" that they do might end looking like economics. Or sociology. So my learning is that these explorations can't--and shouldn't be--blocked-in, boxed, contained, pre-defined.
Are you finding that to be true?
Interesting to think through the assessment piece of PBLs. And the standards-thing, too.
Maybe we should start a discussion forum and dig into some of these questions.
:-)
I asked Susan Santone to join Fireside and she said she might soon, feels very busy right now will all she's got going.
If you feel inspired to do so, please share some of your ideas and work, also the links you find useful and inspiring. So glad you're here!
So good to hear about your work. Hey, I wondered if you know Susan Santone? I'm very impressed with what she's doing. She has a wealth of great resources to share and also is a wonderful speaker.
Here's her site, Creative Change.
I just invited her to Fireside. Hope she comes! She'd be a great resource for us; we can all exchange ideas for our mission of helping students to understand the environment--and be activists and problem-solvers.
BTW, have you seen the discussions on children and nature awareness on Fireside?
I'm curious whether you can get outside in NY to do some urban environmental studies--have you tried?
Environmental education is one of my favorite things. In the summer, I run a Farm Camp, with kids outdoors all day every day. We explore the woods, watch birds, track coyotes. Fun!
What aspects of environmental education do you especially love teaching?
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