The Cluster Pedagogy Learning Community began during a simpler, less harried time. Oh there were crises, mind you, but nothing prepared us for what was to come: a pandemic, campus closures, an unemployment spike, racial reckoning, remote-learning-at-gunpoint, and an insurrection: tragedies with which you, dear reader, are all too familiar. In spite of incessant turmoil …
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Hacking Project-Based Learning: Teach Collaboration Skills
I began blogging about Hacking Project-Based Learning a few weeks ago. Specifically the first chapter: Encourage Risk-Taking. In it, the authors explained how building relationships, showing empathy, and inciting curiosity help foster perseverance and intellectual growth. The second chapter, or “hack”, described in the book is Teach Collaboration Skills. A successful project depends on fruitful …
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Hacking Project-Based Learning
I’m in the middle of Hacking Project-Based Learning by Ross Cooper and Erin Murphy, a concise, practical guide for teachers wishing to deploy PBL in their courses. Cooper and Murphy are primary school teachers, so their examples are often calibrated to the elementary grades. But, as they remind readers, instructors can scale and adapt PBL …