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Merriam School Merriam School
Building A School Community: Building A School Community:
Children, Parents, Staff Children, Parents, Staff 2011 2011‐ ‐2012 2012
Merriam School Merriam School Building A School Community: Building A - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Merriam School Merriam School Building A School Community: Building A - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Respect Risk Taking Persistence Merriam School Merriam School Building A School Community: Building A School Community: Children, Parents, Staff Children, Parents, Staff 2011 2012 2012 2011 Building Community: Building Community: Parent
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Math Games Night Math Games Night
Checking In Checking In Estimation Challenges Estimation Challenges
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Literacy Week Literacy Week
Teachers Teachers ASM ASM
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Buddies Buddies
Classroom Doors Classroom Doors
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Community Day/Theme Days Community Day/Theme Days
Listen Listen… …Do you hear what I hear? Do you hear what I hear?
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Core Values Carnival Core Values Carnival
Risk Taking Risk Taking R R‐ ‐E E‐ ‐S S‐ ‐P P‐ ‐E E‐ ‐C C‐ ‐T T
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Everyday Involvement Everyday Involvement
Field Trips Field Trips Projects Projects
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Building Community: Building Community: Parent Involvement Parent Involvement
Building Relationships
Building Relationships
Staff vs. PTO Basketball Game
Staff vs. PTO Basketball Game
Fall Harvest Festival
Fall Harvest Festival
School Picnics
School Picnics
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Staff vs. PTO BB Staff vs. PTO BB
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Fall Harvest Fall Harvest Festival Festival
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ASM/Picnics ASM/Picnics
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Merriam School Merriam School
Project based learning engages students in Project based learning engages students in authentic learning activities that increase authentic learning activities that increase interest and motivation. interest and motivation.
Respect Risk Taking Persistence
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Merriam School Merriam School
The Merriam School combines the thought The Merriam School combines the thought‐ ‐ provoking qualities of a children's museum with provoking qualities of a children's museum with the nurturing of a family and the focused learning the nurturing of a family and the focused learning
- f a science experiment. We promote our core
- f a science experiment. We promote our core
values values— —respect respect, , persistence persistence and and risk taking risk taking. . Merriam families, students and staff work closely Merriam families, students and staff work closely together within a climate that supports together within a climate that supports community, collaboration and creativity. community, collaboration and creativity.
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Bloom Bloom’ ’s s Taxonomy: Taxonomy:
- Lower levels of
Lower levels of performance can normally performance can normally be taught using the more be taught using the more passive learning methods passive learning methods
- Higher levels of
Higher levels of performance usually require performance usually require some sort of action or some sort of action or involvement by the involvement by the learners. learners.
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Projects Projects:
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Curriculum Curriculum Executive Functioning Skills Executive Functioning Skills Cooperative Group Dynamics Cooperative Group Dynamics Formative Assessment Formative Assessment
Engineering Design Process
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Project based learning is learning in depth Project based learning is learning in depth‐ ‐students encounter and students encounter and struggle with the central concepts of the content. struggle with the central concepts of the content.
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Today's students must be Today's students must be taught to think for themselves taught to think for themselves and to generate new and to generate new information. information.
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“There exists a multitude of intelligences, quite independent of each other; each intelligence has its own strengths and constraints.” Howard Gardner
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“ “Cooperative Learning increases academic achievement, increases h Cooperative Learning increases academic achievement, increases higher level igher level thinking skills, and increases self thinking skills, and increases self‐ ‐esteem, social skills, and study skills. Lastly esteem, social skills, and study skills. Lastly students learn the workplace skills which are a necessity in the students learn the workplace skills which are a necessity in the twenty twenty‐ ‐first first century. century.” ”
- Dr. Spencer Kagan
- Dr. Spencer Kagan
Project based learning teaches 21st century skills as well as content. Skills such as communication, presentation, organization, time management, research, reflection, group participation & leadership.
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"Learning is not attained by chance; it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence” Abigail Adams