1 FREE English Class April 12 (2010) Florida Part A Fort Lauderdale

1 FREE English Class April 12 (2010) Florida Part A Fort Lauderdale



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Why do we use projects in Language Academy?
ANSWER: We ask students to do doing projects in small groups because students learn ACTIVELY and more QUICKLY than when the teacher talks and the students take notes.

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PLEASE READ THESE QUOTES from The Big Picture, Chapter 1, by Dennis Littky

In the early 1970s, I was placing student teachers in schools with open classrooms. These schools were influenced by a big movement in the '60s that said having kids doing projects in small groups was a better set-up for learning than the traditional lecture format. One of my student teachers, a young, idealistic woman, turned to me one day and said, This is great, Leonard, but when am I really going to learn how to teach? She was standing there in an exciting, rich learning environment, but she couldn't see it because it didn't match her idea of what teaching was, which was standing up in front of the room, looking out at quiet rows of faces, and pouring knowledge into them.




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When I watch kids walk into the building on their first day of school, I think about what I want them to be like when they walk out on their last day. I also think about what I want them to be like on the day I bump into them in the supermarket 10 or 20 years later. Over the course of three decades watching kids walk into my schools, I have decided that I want them to

be lifelong learners
be passionate
be ready to take risks
be able to problem-solve and think critically
be able to look at things differently
be able to work independently and with others
be creative
care and want to give back to their community
persevere
have integrity and self-respect
have moral courage
be able to use the world around them well
speak well, write well, read well, and work well with numbers
truly enjoy their life and their work.
To me, these are the real goals of education.

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