Your child needs to spend each school year
deeply learning concepts that build from one grade to another with the new rigorous standards being adopted nationwide.
The reason I started using project - based learning several years ago was because it became immediately apparent to me as a teacher that talking to kids didn't cause them to really
deeply learn concepts.
Not exact matches
While I have, I think, a reasonably good picture of why men in a macho culture felt they needed to keep women down, I
deeply resent having
learned the
concept of «woman's work» at home and having been treated to lighthearted scoffing about «lady Ph.D. s» in college.
The newly -
learned concepts can be more
deeply understood by analyzing, comparing, and contrasting the information over time.
As Linda Darling - Hammond and colleagues (2008) describe, we want students to «reflect
deeply on the work they are doing and how it relates to larger
concepts specified in the
learning goal» (p. 216).
Deeply integrating the
learning of maths, science and technology offers a fantastic opportunity to provide real - world relevance to
concepts that are often dry and boring for students.
Eeva Reeder, a former math teacher who led a high school geometry project on designing a school for 2050, says she started project - based
learning for three reasons: First, her students were not
learning concepts deeply enough to apply or even remember them for a long period.
Not only is it
deeply engaging (addressing an ever - present dilemma for middle school students), but it also creates a natural context for
learning ELA
concepts.
As I see it, for
learning styles not to exist, it would have to be the case that for every single
concept that a person ever
learns, varying the exact way in which she
learns it has zero statistically significant effect on how quickly she
learns it, how
deeply she
learns it, and / or how long she retains it.
Learn more about how visualizing math can guide students at all language proficiency levels to
deeply understand mathematical
concepts and thrive in the classroom and beyond.
Intellectually gifted and academically talented students are able to
learn material rapidly and understand
concepts deeply.
In order to
learn something more
deeply don't we have to involve more
concepts than when we
learn it shallowly?
Teachers
learn the process of looking
deeply at content standards through an interdisciplinary lens to discover common
concepts and skills.