Project-based learning involves students designing, developing, and constructing hands-on solutions to a problem. The educational value of Project-based learning is that it aims to build students’ creative capacity to work through difficult or ill-structured problems, commonly in small teams. Typically, Project-based learning takes students through the following phases or steps: Identifying a problem Agreeing on […]
Drama in Education
In this Concentration, students develop a specialized knowledge of the fields of drama and theatre in education, the ability for sustained engagement with communities of learning, as well as a working knowledge of school systems. Students learn to transform regular curricular material into effective and transformative drama work, begin practicing teaching methodologies, and explore ways […]
Sudbury schools method
Sudbury schools take their name from the Sudbury Valley School, which was founded in 1968 in Framingham, Massachusetts. Sudbury schools operate under the basic tenets of individuality and democracy and take both principles to extremes that are unrivaled in the education arena. In Sudbury schools, students have complete control over what and how they learn, […]
Inquiry-Based Learning
What if learning was question-driven? This is exactly what inquiry-based learning is about. In this approach, the teacher guides students to develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills. To learn these skills, the teacher helps students think through their processes, teaches them possible approaches, and encourages them to try various methods. Students are encouraged to fail […]
5. Art & Science: the meeting point
The relationship between art and science is very close. In the past, it was a closer and almost necessary one to the other. Since then, and this happened very recently, that Art was given the sterile role only to entertain people in their leisure time, boundaries have begun to enter between these two necessary vital […]
Experiential Learning
Experiential learning is an engaged learning process whereby students “learn by doing” and by reflecting on the experience. Experiential learning activities can include, but are not limited to, hands-on laboratory experiments, internships, practicums, field exercises, study abroad, undergraduate research and studio performances.Well-planned, supervised and assessed experiential learning programs can stimulate academic inquiry by promoting interdisciplinary […]
Active Learning
Active Learning Active learning is a term used to describe instructional strategies that promote students’ active participation in knowledge construction processes. Such strategies may include hands-on activities, brief writing and discussion assignments, problem solving tasks, information gathering and synthesis, question generation, and reflection-based activities, among others. Together, these approaches seek to engage learners’ higher order […]
Alternative teaching methods
An arts integration education sets out to help students understand real-world application of science through the arts. By integrating art into science, students understand the inter-relatedness of everything they learn. This method of teaching and learning also promotes creativity and collaboration. And all of this leads to scientific literacy.So what’s scientific literacy?It’s the understanding of the […]
Pedagogues
Erasmus According to Erasmus the child coming to this world is raw material, a white piece of paper, man is not born with certain qualities, man is educated. The huge task of the people involved with education is to give this new born child the perfect education in its finest form. Later the supporters of […]
4. Behind the verb “play-is played”
The psychological background behind the verb “play-is played” The success and dissemination of such innovative methods of education is due to a rich psychological background that touches very sensitive strings of student (and not only) psychology. Contrary to the «dry» vague promises of traditional education (read / learn for better work, better salary, more comfort […]