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In collaboration with Project Zero, Professional Education at Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) is offering online professional education courses that are research-based and grounded in day-to-day teaching and leadership practice — you can apply what you learn, as you learn. In these 13 week long, coach-facilitated, asynchronous online courses, you'll work with peers facing similar challenges and take away real-world solutions, inspiration, and the support of an engaged community.
Each program promotes active, team-based learning that supports collaboration and sharing in schools and districts. Each has its own focus area but they also work well together.
These courses are now recognized as IB Category 3 workshops.
What Courses are available?
Upcoming Term: Feb 24 — May 24, 2020 (link) REGISTRATION OPEN COST USD $550.
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School Teams are made of 3-6 teachers.
Each Team is part of a Study Group with 3-4 other Teams from around the World.
Study groups are supported by PZ Coaches, who give individual and group feedback.
There are often many Study Groups in a course. The course is led by PZ Instructors.
Course completion and progress is recorded individually.
PZ courses can generate a 45-hour professional learning certificate and count as an IB Cat 3 (continuum) workshop.
Good for: All Faculty, perhaps best suited to ES. "The Reggio Course".
Course Details: Find out more
Course Outline: Weekly Topics
Project: Making Learning Visible
Learn how to unlock the potential of group learning in your classroom by making learning visible.
Book:
Visible Learners: Promoting Reggio-Inspired Approaches in All Schools (Krechevsky et al., 2013)
Creating Cultures of Thinking:
Learning to Leverage the Eight Forces that Shape the Culture of Groups, Classrooms, and Schools
Good for: All Faculty
Course Details: Find out more
Course Outline: Weekly Topics
Project: Cultures of Thinking
Learn how cultural forces influence thinking and how you can create a culture that supports deeper learning.
Book:
Creating Cultures of Thinking: The 8 Forces We Must Master to Truly Transform Our Schools by Ron Ritchhart
Good for: ES, MS, STEAM etc
Course Details: Find out more
Course Outline: Weekly Topics
Project: Agency by Design & Making Across the Curriculum
Discover how maker-centered learning prepares students of all ages to thrive in a complex world.
Book:
Maker-Centered Learning: Empowering Young People to Shape Their Worlds by Edward P. Clapp, Jessica Ross, Jennifer O. Ryan, Shari Tishman (Jossey-Bass, 2016)
Good for: All Faculty
Course Details: Find out more
Course Outline: Weekly Topics
Project: Visible Thinking
Learn how to integrate the tools of “visible thinking” to deepen learning in any setting. See the Visible Thinking website here (or use this LibGuide)
Book:
Making Thinking Visible: How to Promote Engagement, Understanding, and Independence for All Learners by Ron Ritchhart et al. (Jossey-Bass, 2011)
Good for: All Faculty
Course Details: Find out more
Course Outline: Weekly Topics
Project: Teaching for Understanding
Learn to develop robust learning experiences that prepare students for an ever-changing future. A good step to go beyond CCOT/MTV and focus on real understanding.
Books:
Future Wise: Educating Our Children for a Changing World by David N. Perkins (Jossey-Bass, 2014)
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Teaching for Understanding Guide by Tina Blythe and Associates (Jossey-Bass, 1998)
