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Project Based Learning
Project Based Learning
We're almost to the finish line!
This year has brought significant challenges to families, children, and educators. Kesher Newton rose to the challenge and offered safe, compassionate, ruach-filled in-person support when it was hard to find. This required an exorbitant amount of creativity, flexibility, staffing, and public health guidance. It also required significant financial investment, as Kesher added technology, PPE, air quality monitors, and individual supplies to keep children engaged and safe.
Join us in a 5K fundraiser to keep Kesher running into the future!
As we researched and trained in the best practices for remote learning, we came to the conclusion that a necessarily hybrid plan (blended in-person and remote) requires a different approach to curriculum and teaching. One approach we have used in some units in the past we have decided to expand, namely, Project-Based Learning (PBL).
In PBL, teachers present students with a driving question, one that is open-ended and non-judgemental, yet focuses inquiry on a specific topic. To answer this question, students must engage in high-level cognitive work; they must unpack the driving question to guide their process, research the topic, propose and debate answers, and solve a problem or provide a service to the community. Projects have connections to real-world adult work, so students will consult experts in the relevant fields.
As we researched and trained in the best practices for remote learning, we came to the conclusion that a necessarily hybrid plan (blended in-person and remote) requires a different approach to curriculum and teaching. One approach we have used in some units in the past we have decided to expand, namely, Project-Based Learning (PBL).
In PBL, teachers present students with a driving question, one that is open-ended and non-judgemental, yet focuses inquiry on a specific topic. To answer this question, students must engage in high-level cognitive work; they must unpack the driving question to guide their process, research the topic, propose and debate answers, and solve a problem or provide a service to the community. Projects have connections to real-world adult work, so students will consult experts in the relevant fields.
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Ready to start running?!
Join Kesher students Mira & Eva Niederman and their parents Sarah & Jeff for a light practice run at Cold Spring Park this coming Sunday 5/16 at 10 am.
Meet them near the tennis courts
watch this video from our spiritual and physical leader by Rabbi Berman from Temple Reyim