Thinking Through Project-Based Learning: Guiding Deeper Inquiry - Softcover

Jane I Krauss; Suzie K Boss

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1452202567 ISBN 13: 9781452202563

Verlag: Corwin, 2013

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Everything you need to know to lead effective and engaging project-based learning!

This timely and practical book shows how to implement academically-rich classroom projects that teach the all-important skill of inquiry. Teachers will find:

• A research-driven case for project-based learning, supported by current findings on brain development and connections with Common Core standards
• Numerous sample projects for every K-12 grade level 
• Strategies for integrating project-based learning within all main subject areas, across disciplines, and with current technology and social media
• Ideas for involving the community through student field research, special guests, and showcasing student work

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Jane Krauss is a teacher, author and consultant who does curriculum and program development designed to increase participation of girls and other underrepresented groups in computer science. She will gladly tell you why computational thinking is the fundamental literacy of our technical age!

Jane also writes and offers professional development internationally around the topic of project-based learning with technology. With Suzie Boss, she is coauthor of Reinventing Project-Based Learning: Your Field Guide to Real World Projects in the Digital Age (2nd ed., 2014, ISTE) and Thinking Through Project-Based Learning: Guiding Deeper Inquiry (2013, Corwin). 

In her free time, Jane enjoys dabbling in glasswork and mosaics, and keeps fit running and hiking on woodland trails just outside her door in Eugene, Oregon.

Suzie Boss is a writer and educational consultant who focuses on the power of teaching and learning to improve lives and transform communities. She is the author of 10 popular books for educators, most recently Project Based Teaching: How to Create Rigorous and Engaging Learning Experiences and Reinventing Project-Based Learning: Your Field Guide to Real-World Projects in the Digital Age, 3^rd Ed. She collaborated with award-winning teacher Stephen Ritz to tell his inspiring story about classroom innovation in The Power of a Plant. A regular contributor to Edutopia, PBLWorks National Faculty emeritus, and frequent conference presenter, she consults with schools and nonprofit organizations around the world interested in shifting to a more student-centered, innovative approach to teaching and learning. Active on social media (@suzieboss), she maintains a website at suzieboss.com.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Corwin
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1452202567
• ISBN 13: 9781452202563
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 216
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