In this week’s episode of the Steve Barkley Ponders Out Loud podcast, Steve ponders “Teaching & Learning With Simulations & Live Event.” Listen as Steve talks with Joe Griffith, a teacher at Honey Creek Community School, about a homeless simulation project. Read about the homeless simulation project: http://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2018/03/middle_school_homelessness_sim.html Get in touch with Joe Griffith: jgriffith@hc.wash.k12.mi.us […]

Many teachers are looking to increase a student-centered, constructivist focus to learning in their classrooms, believing that students need to be actively engaged in seeking and understanding meaning. Anne Sample (2000) provides these guiding principles for teaching and learning which support this teacher focus (page 25): knowledge is constructed from the experience of the learner; […]