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Park Terrace fourth-grade team shows how 'the project is the learning' in pilot
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Fourth-grade teachers from Park Terrace described a year-long, project-based learning pilot that reorganized student grouping, schedules and interdisciplinary instruction; teachers reported increased student engagement, family turnout at exhibitions and growth in communication and collaboration skills.
Park Terrace fourth-grade teachers told the Spring Lake Park Schools Board that their project-based learning pilot has increased student engagement and strengthened interdisciplinary learning.
The team — Peyton Sebrecht, Aaron Creighton and Carly Oto — said they began by assessing staff strengths, backwards-designing trimesters using learner profiles and moving students through four core, team-taught classes rather than confining instruction to single homerooms. “The project is the learning,” one teacher said, describing performance assessments such as a poetry…
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