EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING What are the real expectations of teachers?

How will I know I’m being effective?

Expeditionary Learning Expeditionary Learning is a curriculum designed to promote critical thinking, academic achievement, and personal development through the use of in-depth investigations that engage students coupled with personal and social reflection of those activities thus turning students into engaged and effective democratic citizens in their society. “Learning By Doing” …. (Thank your Mr. Dewey)

Learning by Doing Expeditionary learning, or as Dewey’s thoughts are often paraphrased, “learning by doing” cannot stop with the activity! Students must have an opportunity to think about what happened and reflect upon what they’ve learned and how they’ve grown. keeping in mind that… in a democratic classroom, students must have an opportunity to exercise their voice!

Pipeline

Create a path for a marble to travel from the starting cup to the end cup. –Once the marble leaves the starting cup, it cannot be touched by anything besides the pipe and air until it falls into the end cup. –While holding the pipe with the marble in it, that participant may not move their feet (all other participants are free to move about.)

Discussion and Reflection

Pipeline Part 2 A race of QUANTITY & SPEED... Create a path for 1 cup of water to travel from the starting cup to the end cup. –Once the water leaves the starting cup, it cannot be touched by anything besides the pipe and air until it falls into the end cup. –While holding a pipe with the water in it, the participant(s) may not move their feet.

Discussion and Reflection

Is competition a good way to motivate people? What are the pros/cons? Was it important to be competing for something? What roles did you/your teammates assume? Did those rules change once it was clear it was a competition? What can you apply from this activity to a real-world situation that involves group problem solving?

Does “Same Goals” = Same Method Teaching, one of the oldest professions in the world, has virtually the same goals as it did at the dawning of civilization. - From Socrates to Dewey to Federally Funded Public Schools… We MUST prepare and empower students!

We, as teachers, are preparing students for careers that don’t exist and haven’t even been thought of yet.

Pedagogy is the art or science of teaching. The Latin word for pedagogy, education, is much more widely used, and often the two are used interchangeably.education Who Will You Be?

Why “Expeditionary Learning” Why should we do this in the classroom? - Think about those great unit plans we all make… But what about that mission statement???? Help your students K.A.S.H in… It WILL help them in school Then… help them through LIFE

“ If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.” -- Antoine de Saint-Exupesy