Ep.3: Passionate About Project-Based Learning

Ep.3: Passionate About Project-Based Learning Moderator: Jane C. Lo is Assistant Professor of Social Science Education in the School of Teacher Education at Florida State University. She studies social studies education broadly, with a specific focus on civic education. Her recent works on student political engagement and project-based learning can be found in Theory and Research in Social Education as well as Democracy & Education. Reach Jane at jlo@fsu.edu. This podcast is an audio extra to her January/February 2018 articles in Social Education, where she served as Guest Editor. Social Education is a journal of the National Council for the Social Studies. Link to Jane’s Social Education article here: https://www.socialstudies.org/node/50761 Heard in the Podcast: John Larmer is editor in chief at the Buck Institute for Education (BIE), where he wrote and edited BIE’s project-based curriculum units for high school government and economics, and the PBL Toolkit Series. In 2015, he co-authored Setting the Standard for Project Based Learning, published by ASCD. For 10 years John taught high school social studies and English and co-founded a restructured small high school. He can be reached at johnlarmer@bie.org or on Twitter @johnlbie. Stacie Brensilver Berman taught U.S. History for 10 years at Edward R. Murrow High School in Brooklyn, N.Y. She is currently a doctoral candidate in Social Studies Education at New York University writing her dissertation, “Behind the Times: The Struggle to Include LGBTQ History in High School U.S. History Classes.”  Robert Hallock teaches social studies at Sammamish High School in Bellevue, Washington, and has served as a reader for the AP World History Exam. He can be reached at hallockr@bsd405.org.  ____ Social Education co-authors: “The ‘Secret Ingredients’ of Problem-Based Learning: A World History Perspective” (page 40) Robert Hallock (credited above) Kathryn Smoot currently teaches social studies in Florham Park, N.J. She previously taught AP World History for five years at Sammamish High School in Bellevue, Washington.  ___ “Learning through Doing: A Project-Based Learning Approach to the American Civil Rights Movement” (page 35) Stacie Brensilver Berman (credited above) Diana B. Turk is co-author of  “Teaching Recent Global History” (Routledge, 2014) and Teaching U.S. History (Routledge, 2009), and author of several articles and chapters on innovative approaches to teaching history in middle and secondary schools. Become a member of NCSS here: https://www.socialstudies.org/membership/join_renew