1. Better with Practice: PBL Implementation Tips from the Field Your Hosts Suzie Boss Jane Krauss with… ? and Sponsor
2. Better with Practice: PBL Implementation Tips from the Field Our Guests Anthony Armstrong Del Mar Middle School Tiburon, CA Terry Smith Eugene Field Elementary, Hannibal, MO
5. Act 1: Inspiring Wonder Photo courtesy Connie Weber “There's an art to just settling and taking things in, using the senses to ignite the fire of WONDER.” ~Connie Weber
6. Act 1 Spotlight: Terry Smith’s Class Getting into “ project mode” with Monster Project Eugene Field School Hannibal, MO
Stakes aren’t high, guessing and noodling around is encouraged, fun
Connie can’t attend but she’s been active in the conversation. As we continue she’ll appear and talk about how she’s deliberate, even has a name for it.
Suzie ~ about “have a meeting”
Jane When we talk about archives later, you’ll get another view on the activity and patterns in this classroom. The red ones are the big ones, but it’s going on all the time in all shapes and sizes.
Jane We know that learning happens best when you’ve drawn on student’s prior knowledge. There are a lot of ways to figure out what they know. Respond in the chat. What do you do to identify what they know and then draw on that? Suzie: tell the story - Sometimes you have to create common footing.
Jane: One of our reflective contributors said this about our hero Sylvia Chard. Let’s give you a chance to read. My takeaway - We’d do well to slow down, the rewards are great. I maintain that this phase doesn’t have to take a lot of time, it just has to be deliberate.
Jane - Conference recently where this wwas skipped. Describe the Visible Thinking methods for getting ~ Know - And What makes you say that?
Suzie: Reminder: Bring in a hobby, Keep it low stakes. Repetition and variety - You aren’t the total expert and you have many many questions.
Suzie
Suzie intros Anthony
Suzie - We’d love to collect more of these. Gain a new repetoire.
Jane Back to Terry Kids looked forward to doing the projects, that anticipation paid off, they’d been thinking, imagining for years. Terry’s repeated, fine tuned and expanded these projects over quite a few years. Landmark Project is starting now, he describes it in the PBL~ Better with Practice Group
Jane to Shane: Briefly - There are tools that help you curate your archive. Shane.
Terrific - Projects on language called the Longfellow 10 and an amazing project about Darfur.
Jane: Asking - This is what teachers do, since we’re the model for inquiry in many ways what do you think kids are doing? Anyone know data on the questions kids ask, send along.
So, instead of “Any questions?” we ask: What questions do you have? Let’s open it up. And we can stay on for a bit.