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21st Century Reasoning Modalities In Interdisciplinary Stem Education, Bryan Gallant
21st Century Reasoning Modalities In Interdisciplinary Stem Education, Bryan Gallant
GS4 Georgia Southern Student Scholars Symposium
The overarching goal of the Institute for Interdisciplinary STEM Education (iå_STEMe) at Georgia Southern University is to improve student engagement and learning outcomes in STEM courses through immersion in authentic, real-world, problem-based and place-based educational settings. To accomplish this goal, iå_STEMe has partnered with 10 middle and high schools located in Georgia to incorporate a series of reasoning modalities developed to meet the requirements of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) to develop STEM literate citizens capable of making informed decisions, and to open up opportunities to fill the growing need for STEM professionals. The reasoning modalities developed are Complex …
Progressive Education: Lesson From The Past And Present, Susan F. Semel, Alan R. Sadovnik, Ryan W. Coughlan
Progressive Education: Lesson From The Past And Present, Susan F. Semel, Alan R. Sadovnik, Ryan W. Coughlan
Faculty Works: EDU (1995-2023)
Progressive education is one of the most enduring educational reform movements in this country, with a lifespan of over one hundred years. Although as noted earlier, it waxes and wanes in popularity, many of its practices now appear so regularly in both private and public schools as to have become almost mainstream. But from the schools that were the pioneers, what useful lessons can we learn? The histories of the early progressive schools profiled in Part 1 illustrate what happened to some of the progressive schools founded in the first part of the twentieth century. But even now, they serve …