3-25-09

The Adolescent Experience Adelphi University Spring 2009 Professor George Maurer gmaurer22@gmail.com

Moving forward....the big picture!

Essential Questions: //What is passive learning? What is active learning? How do we design 21st Century, project-based curriculum that is relevant and engaging to students?//

//See handout for presentation on middle level curriculum.//

Expectations for next class:
 * Review and respond to at least three different chapter summaries from __This We Believe.__
 * Begin reading __Reinventing Project Based Learning__ chapters 1-3.
 * Mini-project:
 * Find a partner or triad
 * Choose topic
 * The Adolescent Child
 * Orientation Program - 5th to 6th or 8th to 9th
 * Bullying
 * Advisory Period
 * Team Building Activities
 * School-Family Communication
 * Other?
 * Due to your outstanding leadership skills and use of best practices in the classroom, you have been asked by your building principal to create a 10-15 minute presentation to be given at your next faculty meeting.
 * Criteria:
 * Begin with essential questions
 * Display information on a wiki
 * Provide links to other information
 * Create associated discussion tab question(s)
 * Can have embedded video, audio, documents or slideshows

Click here for the Mini-Project Page