Project Based Learning

Good friend and teaching colleague, Bob Greenberg from Connecticut, is always making videos about something in education.  In this one, he interviews a few of us teachers from around the world who have been partnering in classroom projects.

I’m posting this short video of David Kelly, Professor of design, at Stanford University and IDEO co-founder. I like his take on the importance of fun, chaos and project-based learning. My classroom experiences with elementary kids are exactly as the learning that he describes here. Teachers will say “all learning can’t be fun.” But [...]

I just finished a short paper called  Can a Human Resources Model in Schools Result in Increased Student Achievement? In short, schools need more of a professional function for recruiting experienced teachers. Current methods fall very short of matching experience to needs. Followup support is often nonexistent. Reasons for placing teachers in classrooms [...]