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Part One: Should Teachers Care About Student Apathy? | Edutopia

Edutopia videos and lesson plans to help students sharpen financial literacy skills.

This site provides information about comprehensive assessment. There are videos about comprehensive assessment. It looks like a good site to go to for professional development regarding assessment.

Edutopia site on comprehensive assessment. Looks like a good site for someone who wants to develop a greater understanding of comprehensive assessment.

How projects and tech can go together.

Fortunately, these two targets -- technology and project learning -- go hand in hand, says Tom Hickey, the Classrooms for the Future coach at Freedom Area High School, outside Pittsburgh.

A glimpse at the opportunities and expectations for future workers.

This Edutopia article discusses using virtual field trips in the classroom and gives links to Web resources related to virtual field trips.

"When these teachers play rap videos like Fractions in class, they find that students can quickly grasp complicated concepts: The repetition and rhyme help with memorization, and students connect with the lesson."

...there's more to it than teaching teachers how to use technology. "We want to help teachers learn to be learners again," says eMINTS National Center executive director Monica Beglau. "We want to help them move away from being the people who hold all the knowledge to being the people who actually sit alongside -- not in front of -- their students and become facilitators of learning while continuing to learn themselves."

PBL teaching module

The projects profiled here are full-figured creations by teams of teachers at schools whose cultures and schedules support grand ideas. Take a deep breath -- it didn't happen in one big swoop. Article on how to plan the PBL process in a classroom/school/district. I think this article is useful for any educator hesitant about the project-based learning approach. It's a lot of time and work, and then a struggle with how it is assessed. In my personal experience, project-based learning makes for an amazing classroom, but there is a lot of work done on the front-end to get students to buy-in to this model, and then to work within this model.