Invigorate Classroom Practice
Our rapidly changing world presents profound challenges for today’s educators.
- How do you best prepare young people for a future that is hard to imagine?
- How do you create learning experiences that are engaging and exciting for children?
- How do you teach for the kind of deep understanding and thought that allows
people
to solve complex problems and do work that is both excellent and innovative?
- How do you encourage students to fall in love with learning?
The Project Zero Classroom 2009 is designed to help educators create classrooms, instructional materials, and out-of-school learning environments that address these challenges.
In a Project Zero Classroom, teachers promote students’ efforts to understand important content; recognize and develop students’ multiple intellectual strengths; encourage students to think critically and creatively; and assess student work in ways that deepen the learning.
In a Project Zero Classroom, teachers themselves are learners who model intellectual curiosity and rigor, interdisciplinary and collaborative inquiry, and sensitivity to the ethical and aesthetic dimensions of learning.
What You Will Learn
New Techniques For Improving Instruction
The institute addresses fundamental education questions,
such as:
- What are the components of an effective education for the world
that students live in now and will live in 10, 20, or 50 years from
now?
- What is understanding,
and how does it develop?
- What are the roles of reflection and assessment in
student and teacher learning?
- How can participants continue to share and pursue
their understanding
of Project Zero’s ideas with others after the institute?
Participants learn to use various frameworks to look analytically at teaching and to make informed decisions about instruction as well as to develop new approaches to planning and carrying out instruction. Throughout the week, participants reaffirm and expand their repertoire of classroom techniques.
Who Should Attend
The institute is designed for K–12 educators and administrators. In addition, pre-school teachers, teacher educators, and museum educators will find the program of value.
Although participants are strongly encouraged to attend in teams so that they can reflect on ideas together both during and after the institute, individual participants are also invited to attend.
Fluency In English Is Mandatory
Curriculum Overview
The institute includes plenary sessions (325 participants), mini mini-courses (10–45 people), and
small study groups of fewer than 20 that are varied and interactive.
Participants have opportunities
to speak informally with faculty and colleagues from around the world. Plenary sessions highlight both early and emerging ideas from Project Zero work and are presented by Howard Gardner, David Perkins, Steve Seidel and other senior staff.
Study Groups are created based on participants' interests
and offer a daily reflection on applicability of ideas to individual practice.
Mini courses draw from the following topics:
• Teaching and Assessing for Understanding
• Making Thinking and Learning Visible
• Learning in and through the Arts
• Multiple Intelligences
• Understanding of Organizations
• Educating for the 21st Century
Faculty
Howard Gardner, John H. and Elisabeth
A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate
School of Education. Gardner served
as the Co-Director of Project Zero for nearly 30 years, and currently
serves as Chair of the Project Zero Steering Committee. |
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For the last 13 years,
in collaboration with psychologists Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, William
Damon, and other researchers at Project Zero, Gardner has been engaged in a study of Good Work; work
that is at once excellent in quality and also responsive to the needs
of broader society.
The project is now working with young people in secondary schools and colleges in an effort to nurture good work. Gardner's most recent books are: Multiple Intelligences: New Horizons and Five Minds for the Future. With several colleagues, he recently published Responsibility at Work.
David Perkins, is Professor of Education
at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Perkins also served as the Co-Director of Project Zero for nearly 30 years, and currently services as Senior Co-Director of Project Zerio and a member of the Project Zero Steering Committee. |
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His newest book is King
Arthur’s Round Table: How Collaborative Conversations Create
Smart Organizations. He is also the author of The Eureka Effect, Smart
Schools, Outsmarting IQ, Knowledge as Design, and several other books
and many articles. He has helped develop instructional programs and
approaches for teaching understanding and thinking, including initiatives
in Sweden, South Africa, Israel, and Latin America. He is a former
Guggenheim Fellow.
Steve Seidel, is the Patricia Bauman and John
Landrum Bryant Lecturer in Arts in Education and Director of the Arts in Education Program
at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He also serves as Education Chair of this institute. |
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He has worked in the areas
of arts and education for over 30 years. With more than 15 years teaching
in high schools, he joined Project Zero in 1988, working on projects
in arts education, alternative assessment, project-based curriculum,
and school reform. He is currently a Principal Investigator for several
projects, including Making Learning Visible and The Qualities of Quality:
Excellence in Arts Education and How to Achieve It.
Veronica Boix Mansilla , is Lecturer of Education
at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She also serves as a Principal Investigator at Project Zero. |
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In addition to her work in disciplinary and interdisciplinary education, her current research interests address the internationalization of curriculum and education. She seeks to understand how young people understand globalization (the accelerated traffic of people, capital, goods, and ideas that is shaping our times), and how schools might nurture “global consciousness."
Study Group and Mini-Course Faculty include nationally and internationally
acclaimed consultants, authors, presenters, researchers, and practitioners.
General Information
Registration and Program Fee
The comprehensive program fee of $2100 includes tuition, all instructional materials
and a social event. Participants receive a certificate of completion and
a letter confirming clock hours of instruction.
Registration is on a first-come, first-served basis. Payment or a
purchase order must be received within thirty days of registration and prior to the program start.
Participants are responsible for their own travel expenses.
Group Registrations
You will be asked to identify your group name during registration. In order to help us best serve your group, please try to use the same identifier as your teammates, e.g. “Cambridge High School Group,” or “Essex County Group,” or “John Harvard’s Cambridge Team.”
Please note that we are unable to offer group discounts.
We ask that changes to group participant lists take place at least two weeks prior to the start date of the program. If individual or team replacements are made within 14 days of the program start date, PPE may not be able to incorporate these changes into some or all of the program materials. We will make our best effort to incorporate requested changes where possible.
Cancellation Policy
Cancellations must be submitted via fax or email. Full refunds will be given up to 30 days prior to the start of the program. Due to program demand and pre-institute preparations, cancellations received 29–14 days prior to the start of the program are subject to a fee of 10% of the program tuition. Cancellations received within 13 days prior to the start of the program and no-shows are subject to the full program tuition. Please note: Cancellation fees are based upon the date the written request is received.
Institute Location
The institute will be held at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Accommodations
Hotel accommodations are made available to participants
at a reduced rate. Travel and hotel accommodations are the responsibility of the individual participant.
Currier House Dormitory
This Harvard dormitory is a 15 minute walk from class. Each participant is assigned a single room, and
shares a bathroom. While housing facilities are comfortable, they are also
quite spartan. Linens are provided. The cost for room
and breakfast is $115 per night.
Sheraton Commander Hotel
$199.00 (single/double)
Reservations:888-627-7121
Deadline: July 3, 2009
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www.sheraton.com/commander
The Inn at Harvard
$200.00 (single/double)
Reservations:800-458-5886
Deadline: June 27, 2009
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www.theinnatharvard.com
Harvard Square Hotel
$175/ plus tax
Reservations:800-458-5886
Deadline: June 27, 2009
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The Harvard
Graduate School of Education reserves the right to cancel the program
or change faculty at its discretion. In the unlikely case of the program changes,
the school is not responsible for non-refundable travel arrangements
or other planning costs incurred.
The Harvard Graduate School of Education affirms the right of all individuals to equal treatment in education without regard to race, age, religion, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, handicap, national origin, or any other considerations that are extraneous to effective performance. The Harvard Graduate School of Education will accommodate anyone with disabilities
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