Description
Book SynopsisThis book will inspire, challenge and engage you—and transform your teaching and learning.
Each chapter in this book is written by a different educator or team about their experiences with project-based learning, both in and out of the classroom. They reflect not only on the how of project-based learning, but more importantly, on the what and the why. They offer insight into how connecting with learners, honouring their experiences, and promoting deep and rich questioning can be the path to powerful projects and learning. Their writing and thinking is saturated with empathy, expertise, a desire to improve their practice, and an acknowledgment of the need to collaborate.
Trade Review...a
n impressive book written by and for a range of practitioners that show how Project Based Learning can be used in all sorts of environments with all learners. This is a very handy book for educators interested in refining their project-based learning chops. -- Elliot Washore, Ed.D., co-founder of Big Picture Learning
Catch A Fire
is the right book at the right time for anyone interested in the transformative potential of project-based learning. Henderson has put together an incredible array of case studies, examples, and voices on the methodology that will prove both useful and thought provoking to educators of all shapes and sizes. Read this book and get inspired. -- Jay W. Roberts, Vice President of Academic Affairs at Wilson Warren College, author of Beyond Learning By Doing
Table of ContentsCONTENTS
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
1. What Is a Project?
Matt Henderson
2. How Does Project-Based Learning Allow for the Development of the Whole Student?
Tom Lake and Bonnie Powers
3. How Can Teachers Engage Students with Specific Learning Outcomes (SLOs) While Still Remaining True to the Spirit of Inquiry?
Dave Law
4. What Can We Learn When We Live the Math?
Glenys MacLeod
5. Insights from a Central American Agro-Conservation International Development Project
Laura Sims
6. How Can Projects Work for Our Most Vulnerable Learners?
Keith Fulford and Jonathan Dueck
7. How Can Project-Based Learning Work with Learners on the Autism Spectrum?
Matt Henderson
8. Getting People on Board the Project-Based Learning Bus
Sid Williamson
9. Experiencing Project-Based Learning: Beginning in Teacher Education
Theresa Armstrong and Dr. Eva Brown
10. Ecological Literacy and Project-Based Learning
Will Burton
11. One House Many Nations: Indigenous Project-Based Collaboration
Alex Wilson and Jacob Mans
12. Home-School Projects: Are They Learning the Right Stuff?
Bonnie Ferguson-Baird
Conclusion: Assessment for Continuity
Bonnie Powers and Tom Lake; Glenys MacLeod; Will Burton; Bonnie Ferguson-Baird; Laura Sims; Matt Henderson
