Experiential Education
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Teaching
Students Learn More From Inquiry-Based Teaching, International Study Finds
A experiment involving 17,000 students in four countries finds gains for inquiry-, or problem-based teaching over traditional approaches.
Student Achievement
Opinion
Don't Force Group Work, Facilitate Experiential Learning
Students often find group work frustrating, divisive and unsuccessful. Experiential learning principles frame group activities to be engaging, meaningful, and effective.
College & Workforce Readiness
How School-Business Partnerships Can Boost Experiential Learning
A report on business-education partnerships offers insight for K-12 educators as they seek to provide experiential learning, especially in career and technical education programs.
School & District Management
Opinion
Democratic School Communities in Unexpected Places
If we want to build a broad, majority coalition for democratic educational reform with a strong emphasis on communities, we need to look in places that are not part of the conventional progressive horizon.
Teaching
Opinion
Experiential Education Should Be Apart from Schools and Colleges
David Randall, Communications Director of the National Association of Scholars, makes his third set of comments in our discussion about his report. He agrees that civic learning can never be reduced to only those things that can be learned in a classroom. But he thinks citizenship and experiential education should take place out of school.
Early Childhood
Video
A Little Preschool in the Woods
At Audubon Nature Preschool in Chevy Chase, Md., a 鈥渃lassroom鈥� can be a pond, a bamboo forest, a meadow, or a garden. That鈥檚 because Audubon is a 鈥渘ature preschool鈥濃�攐ne of a growing number of preprimary schools around the country where children spend all or part of their days outdoors and in all kinds of weather.
Teaching
Video
Using America's National Parks as Classrooms
The National Park Service offers hundreds of lesson plans, virtual resources for schools, and professional development for teachers.
Teaching
Opinion
National Parks at 100: Outdoor Classrooms for Experiential Learning
Our national parks offer educational opportunities to narrow the "experience gap," write Milton Chen and U.S. National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis.
Assessment
Opinion
Against Field Day: Experiential Education Shouldn't be a One Day Event
To be meaningful and worthwhile, "field experiences" should be coherent within students learning, thoughtfully planned, and provide opportunities for reflection and feedback.
Federal
Opinion
Education Abroad: Six Things You Need to Know About Experiential Learning
To increase the number of students studying abroad, we should encourage experiential learning opportunities alongside the traditional semester and yearlong programs.
Teaching
Opinion
The Power of Experiential Learning
Experiential learning can inspire and prepare today's students for jobs that have yet to be invented, writes Hampshire College president Jonathan Lash.
Teaching
Opinion
Learning by Doing: The Case for Experiential Education
Students learn better when they are actively engaged in the learning process. This is a lesson that I have learned time and time again on outdoor trips, and one that was reinforced on the survival skills course from which we just returned.
Education
Opinion
School Starts Again; Complicated Feelings and High Hopes
Perhaps in schools of the future, with experiential learning and creative problem-solving at the heart of the curriculum, kids will await the end of summer as a time to return to an experience that will so honor their needs and nature as to make the prospect of school actually seem better than vacation.
Science
Students Conduct Fieldwork for Scientists' Research
Through "citizen science" projects, students leave the classroom to collect data for scientists and get hands-on experience.