Joomla! site syndication http://www.nethowto.net/project Sun, 05 Sep 2010 22:50:28 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.nethowto.net/project/images/M_images/joomla_rss.png http://www.nethowto.net/project Joomla! site syndication http://www.nethowto.net/project/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=92&Itemid=9 (mailto:)Lilian G. Katz, Ph.D., and Sylvia C. Chard, Ph.D. are offering a four day institute on the Project Approach at the University of Illinois, Urbana Illinois. This experience is designed to enable teachers to implement the project approach in their own classrooms. Principals and whole school staffs have attended in the past and have found the experience to be very beneficial for the quality of the project work introduced throughout the school. The Engaging Children's Minds institute (http://www.conferences.uiuc.edu/conferences/conference.asp?ID=189) will take place July 16 - July 19, 2009 on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. More information or to register... (http://www.conferences.uiuc.edu/conferences/conference.asp?ID=189) News - Latest Sun, 30 Nov 2008 07:37:14 +0100 http://www.nethowto.net/project/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=94&Itemid=9 Chicagoland Project Approach Summer Institute | Kohl Children’s Museum (http://www.kohlchildrensmuseum.org/visit/events/summer-institute09) via kwout (http://kwout.com/quote/sv9q6t94) On July 23 and 24, 2009, Kohl Children's Museum of Greater Chicago will host the Chicagoland Project Approach Summer Institute (http://www.kohlchildrensmuseum.org/visit/events/summer-institute09): two days of interactive workshops and experiences. News - Latest Sun, 05 Apr 2009 09:24:03 +0100 http://www.nethowto.net/project/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=79&Itemid=9 In the May 2007 issue of the journal Young Children, Lilian Katz has written an article on the topic of standards in early childhood education. She presents the case for providing experiences for children that support them in their quest for understanding. This is in contrast with the idea of delivering educational end products or outcomes. She cites as examples of standards of experience for the child: to be intellectually engaged and absorbed, to be intellectually challenged, to be involved in sustained inverstigations, to have confidence in their questions, to feel that they belong to a group of their peers, among several others. Lilian Katz also invites educators to add to the list for themselves. News - Latest Mon, 03 Dec 2007 07:36:31 +0100 http://www.nethowto.net/project/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=80&Itemid=9 I returned early in February from working in Australia where I met with a group of teachers who had taken a workshop on the Project Approach a year ago. They were able to share how much they had achieved since then. They reported how well the children had taken to using the clipboards on field visits to collect information on the topics they were interested in. It is amazing how much young children can record on a clipboard to work with when they are back in the classroom. Here you can see a picture of a first grade child using the clipboard to record her observations. News - Latest Mon, 03 Dec 2007 07:40:07 +0100 http://www.nethowto.net/project/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=82&Itemid=9 Sometimes children are interested in unexpected places... These children were in a group visiting greenhouses with a wealth of fascinating plant life. Yet water was the thing that came to interest many of the boys. Notice, though, how carefully one boy is holding the delicate aromatic geranium leaf he was given, even as he peers into the murky depths... News - Latest Mon, 03 Dec 2007 07:42:58 +0100