According to the introduction of Teaching for Meaningful Learning the dominant paradigm is teacher instruction and teacher reliance on textbooks as a primary source of knowledge acquisition through discussion and reading.
Project-based learning is a dynamic approach to teaching in which students explore real-world problems and challenges, simultaneously developing cross-curriculum skills while working in small collaborative groups.
Learning by design is based on children learning deeply by being asked to design and create an artifact that requires understanding and application of knowledge.
I think that these different strategies can be spread all over the content area due to their association with inquiry-based practices. A downfall, one might suggest, is that the inquiry levels are different with each instructional method.
Judging by my own school experience, I would have to say that an instruction that relates to the outside "career" world. I find it pointless, in some cases, to spend 4 years of high school studying a foreign language that you will never use once outside the school walls. I'd rather have some meaningful to take with me on my life walk.
References
Why teach with project-based learning?: Providing students with a well-rounded classroom experience. (2008, February 28). Retrieved from http://www.edutopia.org/project-learning-introduction
Hmelo-Silver, C. (2004). Problem-based learning: What and how do students learn?. Retrieved from http://thorndike.tc.columbia.edu/~david/MTSU4083/Readings/Problem- and Case-based ID/hmelo.pdf
Barron, B., & Darling- Hammond, L. teaching for meaningful learning a review of research on inquiry-based and cooperative learning. Edutopia. Retrieved from http://www.edutopia.org/pdfs/edutopia-teaching-for-meaningful-learning.pdf
Project-based learning is a dynamic approach to teaching in which students explore real-world problems and challenges, simultaneously developing cross-curriculum skills while working in small collaborative groups.
Problem-based approaches to learning have a long history of advocating
experience-based education. Problem-based learning (PBL) is an instructional method in which students learn through facilitated problem solving. In PBL, student learning centers on a complex problem that does not have a single correct answer. Students work in collaborative groups to identify what they need to learn in order to solve a problem.Learning by design is based on children learning deeply by being asked to design and create an artifact that requires understanding and application of knowledge.
I think that these different strategies can be spread all over the content area due to their association with inquiry-based practices. A downfall, one might suggest, is that the inquiry levels are different with each instructional method.
Judging by my own school experience, I would have to say that an instruction that relates to the outside "career" world. I find it pointless, in some cases, to spend 4 years of high school studying a foreign language that you will never use once outside the school walls. I'd rather have some meaningful to take with me on my life walk.
References
Why teach with project-based learning?: Providing students with a well-rounded classroom experience. (2008, February 28). Retrieved from http://www.edutopia.org/project-learning-introduction
Hmelo-Silver, C. (2004). Problem-based learning: What and how do students learn?. Retrieved from http://thorndike.tc.columbia.edu/~david/MTSU4083/Readings/Problem- and Case-based ID/hmelo.pdf
Barron, B., & Darling- Hammond, L. teaching for meaningful learning a review of research on inquiry-based and cooperative learning. Edutopia. Retrieved from http://www.edutopia.org/pdfs/edutopia-teaching-for-meaningful-learning.pdf
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