Picturing the Project Approach: Creative Explorations in Early Learning - Softcover

Yvonne Kogan; Sylvia Chard; Carmen A. Castillo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0876595727 ISBN 13: 9780876595725

Publisher: Gryphon House, 2017

Synopsis

AWARD WINNER

When teachers implement the project approach to learning, young children can follow their own real-world interests to gain deeper understanding. Children wonder about a topic, formulate their questions, and then figure out the answers for themselves in their own way.

The project approach helps children dig deeply into intellectual and social experiences that can help them see meaningful benefits of the skills they are acquiring. Picturing the Project Approach will lead teachers every step of the way toward incorporating this teaching method in any toddler, preschool or elementary classroom. Teachers will learn how to:

• Identify a topic
• Decide on a project
• Develop the project
• Share the learning
• Bring the project to a close
•  

Recipient of the 2017 Academics' Choice Smart Book Award

About this title

About the Author

Yvonne Kogan is cofounder and academic principal of the early childhood and elementary departments of Eton School in Mexico City. She is a consultant on the project approach for several schools in Mexico and abroad. Her published works include From My Side: Being a Child and Engaging Children's Minds: The Project Approach.

Review

Picturing: The Project Approach is a much-needed practical and informative guide for teachers who are curious and excited about changing their young children s learning experiences to stimulate critical thinking, develop social-emotional skills, and most importantly, instill a love for learning. Regardless of a one s level of understanding or practice of a project approach, this book with its comprehensive explanation of the approach and beautiful images that capture the life cycle of a project, will most certainly inspire and motivate a teacher to embrace this approach to learning. Picturing: The Project Approach is not a guide to read once and then put on a shelf; it is a guide that should be used every day to ensure young learners have experiences that build their foundation for their successful future educational journey. --Vicki Denmark, Vice President of Innovation

This book really manages to bring the Project Approach alive. The rich pedagogy of the Project Approach is emphasised by the wonderful images of children deeply engaged in their enquiry and research. As well as being Informative and inspirational, the book offers the practical steps needed to facilitate project based learning. It is abundantly clear - when children ask the questions - they are much more interesting in finding their own answers and solutions. A book that should be in every school. --Pete Moorhouse, Artist educator, Author, Early Years consultant and researcher. Bristol, UK

Best practice in today s classrooms means extending the joyous freedom of learning through observation, engagement, meaningful instruction and reflection. Sylvia Chard, Yvonne Kogan and Carmen Castillo in Picturing the Project Approach, Creative Explorations in Early Learning, exemplify, in a lucid way, how this type of learning can be accomplished. This book, with rich descriptions, detailed tables and vivid illustrations, provides step-by-step guidelines for using the Project Approach in any early childhood setting. The Project Approach is cogently presented as a framework for the in-depth investigation of real world topics relevant to children, their context, and their way of life. The narrative exemplifies how when children create their preferred language for interpretation and expression, their learning outcomes are greater. The authors welcome the readers into real classrooms with real students and a strong sense of purpose. Classrooms that nurture the intellect as well as the social and emotional development of every child. Of foremost value is the section of templates and sample letters included at the back of the book. This book has added more knowledge and experience about the Project Approach than any previous work on this subject. It is a true example of the best that learning / school can be. --Dr. Esther Kogan, Educational Co-founder of the Speyer Legacy School Adjunct Professor Adelphi University

Edition details

• Publisher: Gryphon House
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0876595727
• ISBN 13: 9780876595725
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 120