Interest-based Learning Coach : A Step-by-step Playbook for Genius Hour, Pass...

Interest-based Learning Coach : A Step-by-step Playbook for Genius Hour, Passion Projects, and Makerspaces in School, Paperback by Purcell, Jeanne H.; Burns, Deborah E.; Purcell, Wellesley H., ISBN 1646320190, ISBN-13 9781646320196, Brand New, Free shipping in the USThe authors, educators who specialize in student-centered learning and best-practices teaching, offer a guide to interest-based learning that provides strategies and resources for addressing different students' interests within a standards-based learning environment. They outline an eight-step interest-based learning process and how it can be implemented within the general education curriculum during a short time period on a weekly or twice-weekly basis. They include examples, case studies and recommendations, timelines, options, templates, planning and communication tools, and assessment, feedback, and evaluation strategies. They clarify the similarities among models for interest-based learning, such as Genius Hour, passion projects, makerspaces, and project and problem-based learning, and provide a process that is universal to all interest-based learning options. They discuss interest-based learning and its counterparts and prerequisites, and the components of creating a shared vision; addressing assessment; finding and focusing interests; developing an action plan; finding and managing research resources; the research, development, and design of targeted inquiry; selecting appropriate student inquiry products; engaging appropriate audiences for research; and reflecting, and debriefing, and celebrating successes. Annotation ©2020 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR ()