Katy Farber

Real and Relevant (eBook, ePUB)

A Guide for Service and Project-Based Learning

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Real and Relevant provides teachers with a realistic, integrated, and inspirational guide for how to lead service and project-based learning with their students. By engaging in service or project-based learning with students, you are doing nothing less than changing the world for the better. By letting your students explore and begin to solve real life problems, they acquire deeper knowledge, new skills, newfound motivation, responsibility and engagement.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781475835465
• Artikelnr.: 50402507

Autorenporträt

Katy Farber, Ed.D, is a professional development coordinator, educator, and writer from Vermont.  She is the author of three books about education: Why Great Teachers Quit and How We Might Stop the Exodus; and Change the World with Service Learning: How to Create, Lead and Assess Service Learning Projects; and its new edition, Real and Relevant: a guide for service and project based learning, released in June 2017. Her education articles have been published on CNN's School of Thought blog, Educational Leadership, Edutopia, and the Synapse. Katy has also taught pre-service and practicing teachers in graduate courses in various university settings in Vermont. Learn more about her work and connect at katyfarber.com.

Inhaltsangabe

Poem Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter One: What is Service
Learning? Chapter Two: Project Based Learning and Service Learning-what's
what? Chapter Three: Why do Service Learning with Your Students: Research
Review Chapter Four: The Doing Revolution: Service Learning Meets the Needs
of Middle School Students Chapter Five: Building a Service and Project
Based Learning Climate in the Classroom Chapter Six: Gathering Ideas
Chapter Seven: Planning Considerations, Step by Step Chapter Eight:
Partnering with the Community Chapter Nine: Working in Teams Chapter Ten:
Authentic Assessment Chapter Eleven: Powerful Reflection Chapter Twelve:
Securing Funding Chapter Thirteen: Technologies That Support Project Based
and Service Learning Chapter Fourteen: Makerspaces and Genius Hours Chapter
Fifteen: Voices from the Field in Service and Project Based Learning
Afterword Appendix References About the Author