{"id":528,"date":"2013-07-01T20:00:46","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T20:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carmelschettino.com\/wp\/?p=528"},"modified":"2013-07-01T20:02:32","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T20:02:32","slug":"528","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carmelschettino.com\/dev0418\/2013\/07\/01\/528\/","title":{"rendered":"A Total Win…with lots of understanding"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before I left for the Anjs S. Greer Math Conference last week, I read an amazing blog entry at the Math Ed Matters website by Dana Ernst and Angie Hodge<\/a> that was talking about Inquiry-Based Learning and the mantra \u201cTry, Fail, Understand, Win.\u201d\u00a0 The idea came from one of Prof. Ernst\u2019s student course evaluations this past spring as his student summed up his learning experience in such an IBL course.\u00a0 This blog post was so meaningful to me because for each of these four words, the authors wrote how we as teachers (and teacher educators) can take this student\u2019s perspective towards our own work.\u00a0 I decided to attempt to take this attitude going off to my own conference with two courses to give and three smaller talks.\u00a0 It was sure to be a busy week.<\/p>\n

And in fact, it really was.\u00a0 I had very little time to sit and listen to others\u2019 work, which I really was quite sad about.\u00a0 However, in my own classes I was so impressed with the amount of enthusiasm and excitement my participants had for PBL and their own learning.\u00a0 As I sat in front of my computer this morning reading the course evaluations and their tremendously helpful input, it finally occurred to me how truly powerful the experience had been for my participants.\u00a0 Many of them became independent thinkers and knowers about PBL and feel so much more knowledgeable and prepared for the fall.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Part of the class time is spent in \u201cmock PBL class\u201d where I am the teacher\/facilitator and they are the students doing problem presentations.\u00a0 We then sit and talk about specific pedagogical questions and distinctions in classroom practice.\u00a0 Some of the class time is spent in challenging problem solving which is where I also learn so much from the participant\u2019s different perspectives. \u201cWe win when we realize there\u2019s always something we can do better in the classroom\u201d \u2013 as Ernst and Hodge write.<\/p>\n

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The now Infamous ‘French Garden’ Problem<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I want to give a huge shout out to all of my participants from last week and encourage them to keep in touch with me.\u00a0 Many of you wrote in your evaluations that you still have many questions about your practice and how to integrate your vision of PBL in your classroom.\u00a0 I will always be only an email away and hope that you continue to question your practice throughout the year.<\/p>\n

My plan is to try to write some blog posts at the end of the summer\/beginning of the year in order to respond to some of the remaining questioning while you plan for the beginning of the school year such as:<\/p>\n

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  1. How to plan for week one \u2013 writing up a syllabus, creating acceptable rules<\/li>\n
  2. Helping students who are new to PBL transition to it<\/li>\n
  3. Assessment options \u2013 when to do what?<\/li>\n
  4. Working hard to engage students who might not have the natural curiosity we assume<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    If you can think of anything else that you might find helpful, please post a comment or send me a message and I\u2019d be happy to write about it too!\u00a0 Thanks again for all of your feedback from the week and I look forward to further intellectual conversation about teaching and PBL.<\/p>\n\n

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