Interest-Based Learning
Discover how students can drive their own learning through Genius Hour, 20% Time, personalized PBL, and other passion-based strategies facilitating student voice and choice.
Exploring Writing, Social Studies, and Math in a Map Challenge
Encouraging students to bring their creativity and imagination to challenging content makes it more accessible—and helps them learn it more deeply.263Your content has been saved!
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3 Ways to Plan for Diverse Learners: What Teachers Do
Every teacher already has the tools to differentiate in powerful ways for all learners.26.6kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Dedicating Space for Curiosity and Exploration
By turning a plain old hallway into a destination that every class visits regularly to tinker and play, a school made limited resources go further and saw student enthusiasm soar.3.6kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.A Child-Centered Approach to Learning
An approach called emergent curriculum can help preschool and early elementary students have a say in their learning.The Reading Wars: Choice vs. Canon
English teachers are wrestling with how to navigate the increasingly contentious terrain between student choice and assigning the classics.9.2kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.7 Ideas From Reggio Emilia That Any Early Childhood Teacher Can Use
How to adapt principles from the famed approach to foster interest-based learning for the youngest students.6.2kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.How to Use Play for Learning
Play-based learning helps engage elementary students in their education and has cognitive, physical, social, and emotional benefits.6.8kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Genius Hour in Elementary School
A teacher shares what she did and what she learned when she implemented Genius Hour in her fifth-grade class.7.9kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Learner Interest Matters: Strategies for Empowering Student Choice
When students care about an assignment, they're willing to take greater risks and are more likely to excel in their product.10.7kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Emphasizing the Importance of Play During Distance Learning
For young children, play is the primary vehicle for learning, and these ideas will help ensure that they continue to have rich play experiences at home.4.5kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Students Excel When They Find Purpose—So How Do We Help Them?
By connecting learning to the real world, students begin to see themselves as a catalyst for change within it.3.3kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Thinkering Studio: Supporting Self-Directed Learning
Watch students take charge of their project-based learning, by creating their own learning goals and identifying resources beyond their teacher.6.3kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Birmingham Covington: Building a Student-Centered School
Educators take on the role of guides and motivate students to direct their own learning.6kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Explorations: Making Curiosity Part of the Curriculum
Student-designed electives put kids' passions at the forefront of their learning.4.7kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.6 Ways to Get to Know Your Students and Build a Classroom Community
Teachers can build rapport with students by starting the year with activities that encourage sharing of interests, and by connecting those interests to curriculum.1.6kYour content has been saved!
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