"Honestly, I was dreading this because
I fear criticism and critiquing. I was so
glad to learn there is such a positive way
of doing this instead.”
-
Jeannette Day, Educator
It is because each of us have many teachers that we call this page Edu². As the educators of Reggio Emilia, Italy say “parents, teachers, self, peers, the
environment – each are teachers.
Writing when life was neither as accelerated nor disruptive as it is nowadays, educator John Dewey (1859 - 1952) used the plain words “an experience” even back then to describe a complete circle of learning: moving from inner experience to testing ideas in the outer world, then back to the
inner dialogue again.
Our methods follow this learning ecology through hands-on/minds-on inquiry combining in digital times, the best of quantitative and qualitative learning.
Listening, Assessment & Creative Studio
Crit:
A Workshop
for High School students.
February, 2008.
Interactive Workshops
Creativity
+ Pictures + Words:
An Introduction to Documentation
The educators in the 35 schools of Reggio
Emilia, in Northern Italy refer to documentation as the
“second skin” of their schools. This workshop is an
interactive,
hands-on/minds-on introduction to the
documentation model
and to making learning visible – with
Reggio Emilia as inspiration.
Experience how the documentation model of learning:
- furthers thinking by making visible a line of
teacher/student inquiry
- reinforces the varied landscape of
understanding of any learning group
- expands learning repertoires and is responsive
to the different
modalities of learning
- provides cohesion through a clear structure
for inviting difference of
opinion in a constructive way
- showcases projects for those outside the
process (administrators, staff,
colleagues and parents)
*This seminar
links to the poster “19 NON-TECH
WAYS TO DOCUMENT”.
Creative Studio
Crit
A fundamental part of learning is receiving and
processing feedback.
Standardized assessment by itself can produce stilted
results. Students thrive,
their work improves and teacher stress is reduced in
environments combining
quantitative and
qualitative
feedback.
In this interactive seminar participants are guided
through 10 steps for giving
and receiving individual and group
feedback about work. Active listening and
constructive self-assessment is set in motion.
Experience a sequence based on the
art and
design studio critique, for
compelling evaluation and a spiral of progress in
student work.
Listening, Assessment & Creative Studio Crit
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*This seminar links to the poster
“MEANINGFUL
ASSESMENT: THE STUDIO CRIT”.
Teach Us Something in 7
Minutes
This lively, interactive seminar teaches
teaching.
In swift succession, alongside peers, participants
present on a topic of their own choosing. The exercise prevents
"over-worrying" and injects fun and forgiveness
into learning. A great way to get feet wet with
teaching or try out new content.
- minds-on/hands-on learning
- inject improvisation into a scripted
presentation
- provoke lively group debate and
rapport
- make mistakes and play to your
strengths
*This seminar links to a
one-hour documentary by Linda Yaven
"Teach Us Something in 7 Minutes"
premiering 2007.
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