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This video was recorded at a monthly, self-organized convening of NYC-area physical science teachers interested in creating peer--led professional learning opportunities. Using a shared Google Presentation, select attendees prepare and present short solutions to problems of practice at the beginning of each convening. The video recording is later synced to the presentation using Camtasia Studio and posted on YouPD.
Contact Fernand Brunschweig at Columbia University Teachers' college if you want to participate.
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Finding the Sweet Spot Between Concept-Based and Project-Based Pedagogies
Published: 06/26/11
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Problem of practice
How can we design a learning cycle that marries conceptual modeling with a project-based teaching framework?
Solution
Two interlinked, discursive learning cycles, the modeling cycle and the design cycle, are proposed as a template for inquiry-based curriculum design. An example is provided of a year-long curriculum centered on modeling electricity and magnetism.
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Andrew's presentation is great in that he is trying to find out the best, most effective way to teach a skill. The marriage or compromise between these two schools of thought is right on the money I think. If we are trying to do this in our classrooms we must use all of our resourses and build on the students' interest and application of what we've tried to show them.
The subject in this presentation is far more academic than my classroom study in that I'm trying to teach students how to speak English. They come to me without any skills in English and I must motivate them with content to learn. I've hacked a few examples of how I've tried to marry the two types of teaching methods and see now that I must develop a hack where I explain what I'm doing much like this one.
This seems to be an effective presentation that has shown me what I need to do to get my point across with using presentations that encourage listening and speaking while using academic language from various content areas.