The Clarity Series: Community-Based Learning: Awakening the Mission of Public Schools - Brossura

Prast, Holly A.; Viegut, Donald J.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1483344517 ISBN 13: 9781483344515

Casa editrice: Corwin, 2014

Riassunto

To fully prepare K-12 students for life and career, connect with your community!

 

Benefit from the triple win of community-based learning—meaningful curriculum, engaged students, and stronger local partnerships for education. This helpful guide shows readers how to create a thriving program, including:

• Implementing a high-quality, sustainable initiative that bridges academic disciplines
• Forging rewarding relationships with local partners, from major employers to small businesses and community groups
• Recognizing and overcoming common barriers to program effectiveness, while making the best use of resources and time
• Applying best practices from today’s community-based learning programs, illustrated by case studies and examples

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Recensione:

"Community-based learning, as described in this series, just might be the missing piece we are looking for on our competency-based, personalized learning quest for our students.  If we can bring this work together—if we can connect them to their passion (personalize), move them along when they are ready (competency-based) and ground them in real life experience (community-based), perhaps we can truly give them the roots and the wings we have only been theorizing about for fifty years. "

(Dr. Sandra Dop, Education Program Consultant 2014-09-29)

Contenuti:

List of Figures and Tables
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
1. An Introduction to Community-Based Learning
Increase student engagement
Make the curriculum relevant and experiential
Strengthen the connection between the community and schools
The foundation for community-based learning
The levels of community-based learning
Changing the work
2. The Foundation for Community-Based Learning
Learning theory
Learning processes
The social nature of instruction
A vital connection
A new solution to a new problem
3. A Framework for Community-Based Learning
The CBL framework
4. Case Study: Community-Based Learning School
The beginning of community-based learning school
Making progress
Challenges arise
Creating a curriculum
Setback
Exceeding expectations
5. Essential Practices in Community-Based Learning
Drinking the good wine first
Get the right people on the bus
Source your champions
Increase intentionality
Seek transfer
Customization and individualization
Evaluate current partnerships
6. Professional Development for Community-Based Learning
Establish student learning goals
Determine the best practices to achieve those goals
Identify the necessary resources
Decide what teachers need to know and be able to do
Gain the knowledge and skills
CBL needs development
7. Leading Community-Based Learning
Responding to the need for high quality
A tolerance for risk
Situational leadership
Distributive leadership
Mindful leadership
Systems implementation
8. Overcoming Barriers
Time
Large-scale tests
Risk aversion
Partnership peril
Waiting for the right time
Toxic leaders
Facing down detractors
Good to great
Existing structures
Wants over needs
9. Starting Community-Based Learning—Today
For teachers
For principals
For superintendents
For boards of education
For everyone
Appendix: Sample community-based learning unit
References
Index

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Corwin
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1483344517
• ISBN 13: 9781483344515
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 160