The Constructivist Classroom: Everyone Teaches, Everyone Learns

June 23–27, 2008
3 graduate credits

Syllabus [PDF]
Schedule [PDF]

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? 

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.

For more information about these workshops contact Anna Jones at (804) 828-8831.

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