tedu 500 The Constructivist Classroom: Everyone Teaches, Everyone Learns
“This class was great and the active assignments as well as the dialogue truly contributed to my learning. The instructors clearly are very passionate about teaching the philosophy that they have embraced!”
–'08 Participant, Constructivist Classroom
Summer 2010 dates TBA
3 graduate credits
This workshop will be led by faculty of Sabot at Stony Point – an independent school in Richmond, Va. that applies a constructivist approach to preschool, elementary and middle school education. Participants – working in teams – will experience the process of learning through collaborative, investigative research. The workshop will be held on the Sabot at Stony Point campus, an historic, 28-acre estate, and will use the history, gardens and woods of the campus to inspire research questions and carry out collaborative explorations. Teachers will leave after a week with the experience of and tools for co-constructing with students through hands-on, collaborative research.
What will you take home?
Evaluating and integrating information, thinking flexibly and “out of the box,” collaborating with co-workers, applying creative processes in search of innovative solutions. These are the skills that will be critical, some argue, as schools and educators adapt to 21st century realities. How can teachers foster such dispositions and abilities?
Location
Lower school campus of Sabot at Stony Point
3400 Stony Point Road
Richmond, Virginia 23235
Lead Instructor
Marty Gravett, MS
E-mail: sabot.administration@comcast.net
Contact us
For more information about this workshop, contact Anna Jones at (804) 828-8831