Parents

Parents Table 5: **Outline**
 * As they enter, have a presentation of interviews with students and why they like it, etc
 * Introduction to the topic
 * Shift Happens video to make them aware of global changes, etc
 * Query audience about how their job has changed
 * Ask them to share their most memorable learning experience
 * Was it one that was hands on?
 * Sample PBL with the parents
 * only requires information that they are likely to know or know how to find
 * Stop at the point where they would actually build the project
 * Show them the rubric that we might have used to evaluate it
 * Reflect on how it brought in the experiences and expertise from everyone in the group. Nobody left out
 * Share data that supports the idea
 * Ask them to discuss (in groups) why they like the idea. Share out. THEY are selling US on the idea.
 * In groups, discuss their concerns. Share out. Discuss.
 * What can THEY do to support their children?
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Send them home with a summary of this idea. Put additional resources on school website.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.edutopia.org/what-parents-can-do-0__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> and <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.edutopia.org/chard.html__]

Table 6

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Howard Gardner - “Current formal education still prepares students primarily for the world of the past, rather than for possible worlds of the future.”

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Explain how projects that students create benefit the community as well as the students.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Video Resources: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[]

Why Project-Based Learning?

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