Went to Barron Elementary School today to observe their Maker Space. Barron is a public school with around 300 students - supposedly the ’ poorest’ school in the district… if this is the poorest...
We had the honor to have one of the authors from - “Educational Performance of the Poor: Lessons from Rural Northeast Brazil” by Harbison and Hanushek (1992) and David Plank who wrote a review ab...
Today we went over the research papers we read about Math PD. We reconstructed the LHS framework through the lens of different researchers - hard mental exercice but gave us a good grip on the differe...
Great class again lead by our ‘master-teacher’ Denise Pope. Housekeeping Group sites - arrange a meeting Write your Curriculum Rationale (see photo) Be aware of your site’s ideology for curric...
Short summary of Ralph Tyler’s Basic Principles of Curriculum and Instruction Four fundamental questions to be answered when developing any curriculum What educational purposes should the school s...
Prompt These short papers (approximately 2-3 pages) are intended to help students reflect on the experience of curriculum development, and to help us assess student understanding of concepts and ideas...
Participated in the d.school’s Research as Design pop-up course this weekend. How to use design thinking to resolve issues you might have in your research process. Several exercises, creative brains...
Givvin, K.B. & Santagata, R. (2011). Toward a common language for discussing the features of effective professional development: the case of a US mathematics program, Professional Development in Educa...
Did a great “pitch” exercice in class to present ourselves and our Master’s project ideas in 60 seconds + one sentence you want to be remembered by. 2 rounds. Dramatic improvement from after fir...
Prompt - Abstract The project proposal serves several goals: to externalize the current state of your ideas about your project for discussion; to push yourself to refine your ideas to make them acti...