Beyond Active Pedagogy: Student-Centered Learning

Craig Messerman, MEA—MFT, 2011

cmesserman@mcps.k12.mt.us

1. Flipped classroom w/ standards-based assessment
1. What is it?
1. Lecture at home, homework at school
2. Mastery learning, student-centered learning
2. Khan Academy http://khanacademy.org
3. Bergman and Sams UNC Flipped Classroom http://www.flippedclassroom.com
4. Messerman
1. Why I decided to try this.
1. Content vs. skills vs. critical thinking
2. Student survey (slides)
1. How to make vodcasts.
2. Project-based learning (general links: http://pbl-online.org/, http://www.bie.org/, http://pblchecklist.4teachers.org/index.shtml) 
1. Why not give it a whole quarter?
2. Organize around a topic or theme.
1. A concept map for disaster project
2. A targets list
3. Have an outcome, product, and audience in mind.
4. Can you overcome the feed and regurgitate mentality?
5. Needed resources.
1. A team of teachers would be nice!
2. A way to collaborate and share ideas among teachers or students
1. Google docs
3. A source of knowledge
1. Internet
2. Local organizations (e.g. Red Cross, Emergency Services)
4. Access: computer lab or smart phones, netbooks, miscellaneous machines.