Real and Relevant: A Guide for Service and Project-Based Learning by Katy Farber

Description: Real and Relevant by Katy Farber Real and Relevant provides teachers with a realistic, integrated, and inspirational guide for how to lead service and project-based learning with their students. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Real and Relevant provides teachers with a realistic, integrated, and inspirational guide for how to lead service and project-based learning with their students. By engaging in service or project-based learning with students, you are doing nothing less than changing the world for the better. By letting your students explore and begin to solve real life problems, they acquire deeper knowledge, new skills, newfound motivation, responsibility and engagement. Author Biography Katy Farber, Ed.D, is a professional development coordinator, educator, and writer from Vermont. She is the author of three books about education: Why Great Teachers Quit and How We Might Stop the Exodus; and Change the World with Service Learning: How to Create, Lead and Assess Service Learning Projects; and its new edition, Real and Relevant: a guide for service and project based learning, released in June 2017. Her education articles have been published on CNNs School of Thought blog, Educational Leadership, Edutopia, and the Synapse. Katy has also taught pre-service and practicing teachers in graduate courses in various university settings in Vermont. Learn more about her work and connect at katyfarber.com. Table of Contents PoemPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter One: What is Service Learning?Chapter Two: Project Based Learning and Service Learning—whats what?Chapter Three: Why do Service Learning with Your Students: Research ReviewChapter Four: The Doing Revolution: Service Learning Meets the Needs of Middle School StudentsChapter Five: Building a Service and Project Based Learning Climate in the ClassroomChapter Six: Gathering IdeasChapter Seven: Planning Considerations, Step by StepChapter Eight: Partnering with the CommunityChapter Nine: Working in TeamsChapter Ten: Authentic AssessmentChapter Eleven: Powerful ReflectionChapter Twelve: Securing FundingChapter Thirteen: Technologies That Support Project Based and Service LearningChapter Fourteen: Makerspaces and Genius HoursChapter Fifteen: Voices from the Field in Service and Project Based LearningAfterwordAppendixReferencesAbout the Author Review With an intimate portrayal of her service learning experience, elementary teacher and teacher educator Katy Farber provides a hands–on guide for other teachers to take the plunge into service/project based learning. Her extensive practice and research allows for an up-to-date understanding of service/project based learning, so that teachers can engage students from grades 3-12 at the classroom, school and community level. As a teacher educator, I find this guide invaluable for introducing service/project based learning to my pre-service and practicing teachers. -- James Nagle, Associate Professor, Saint Michaels College; Co-Director, Middle Grades CollaborativeThis book is a tremendous resource for the 21st century progressive teacher. Offering a powerful balance of practical guidance and research-based examples, this new edition provides a comprehensive toolkit for service learning in the 21st century. The addition of new chapters devoted to technology, Makerspaces, and Genius Hours provides a compelling and timely illustration of the authentic ways in which service learning can work in conjunction with other contemporary movements in education. -- Jessica DeMink-Carthew, Assistant Professor, Department of Education, Middle Level & Elementary Teacher Education, University of Vermont Long Description Real and Relevant provides teachers with a realistic, integrated, and inspirational guide for how to lead service and project-based learning with their students. By engaging in service or project-based learning with students, you are doing nothing less than changing the world for the better. By letting your students explore and begin to solve real life problems, they acquire deeper knowledge, new skills, newfound motivation, responsibility and engagement. Review Quote With an intimate portrayal of her service learning experience, elementary teacher and teacher educator Katy Farber provides a hands-on guide for other teachers to take the plunge into service/project based learning. Her extensive practice and research allows for an up-to-date understanding of service/project based learning, so that teachers can engage students from grades 3-12 at the classroom, school and community level. As a teacher educator, I find this guide invaluable for introducing service/project based learning to my pre-service and practicing teachers. Details ISBN1475835450 Publisher Rowman & Littlefield Year 2017 ISBN-10 1475835450 ISBN-13 9781475835458 Format Paperback Author Katy Farber Edition 2nd Subtitle A Guide for Service and Project-Based Learning Country of Publication United States Pages 176 DEWEY 361.37 Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Place of Publication Lanham, MD Short Title Real and Relevant Language English Publication Date 2017-06-09 UK Release Date 2017-06-09 NZ Release Date 2017-06-09 US Release Date 2017-06-09 Illustrations Text Boxes; Illustrations, unspecified; Tables; Black & White Illustrations Edition Description Second Edition Alternative 9781475835441 Audience Professional & Vocational AU Release Date 2017-06-14 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:116283134;

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