Posts Tagged ‘smarter students’

Teacher as Coach: The key to better projects

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011

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Our goal as PBL advocates is to design powerful projects. By powerful, I mean projects that fully engage students, offer a potent blend of skills and intellectual challenge, and prompt or awaken a deeper curiosity about life. Nothing less, I believe, is going to serve us in the decades ahead.

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Want to Really Disrupt Education? Make students smarter!

Thursday, December 2nd, 2010

“Incremental change isn’t going to get us where we need to go. We’ve got to be disruptive. You can’t keep doing the same stuff and expect different results.”

– Arne Duncan, U.S. Secretary of Education, in recent comments  quoted by Tom Friedman in November 20, 2010, New York Times Opinion section

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