Project Zero Classroom

PROGRAM DETAILS

Project Zero Classroom

July 26-30, 2010 Enroll

Tuition Fee: $2,300

Program Overview

The Project Zero Classroom helps you create classrooms, instructional materials and out-of-school learning environments that 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.

Program Objectives

The curriculum details various frameworks that will allow you to look analytically at teaching and to make informed decisions about instruction. It will help you to develop new approaches to planning and carrying out instruction. Throughout the week, you will reaffirm and expand your repertoire of classroom techniques. The institute addresses fundamental educational questions, such as:

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.

Faculty Chair

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. Seidel 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.

Additional Faculty

Howard Gardner is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education and Senior Co-Director of Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. 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, Professor of Education and Senior Co-Director of Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. 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.

Enrollment Instructions

Registration is on a first-come, first-served basis. Click here to enroll. Discounted hotel information will be available online mid-December.

Fees

The comprehensive program fee includes tuition, all instructional materials and a social event. Participants receive a certificate of completion and a letter confirming clock hours of instruction.

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.

Project Zero Classroom

PROGRAM DETAILS