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Problem-Based Challenge Design: Getting Started and Going Deeper
Tuesday, July 9, 2024 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT
Presented by Laura Thomas, Core Faculty and Director, Experienced Educators Program, Antioch University
Sponsored by Antioch University
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Learn how to design problem-based challenges that grow with you and your students. This edWebinar introduces you to a process for designing, facilitating, and assessing experiences to teach and practice skills and dispositions in the context of your academic standards.
This recorded edWebinar is of interest to librarians, school leaders, district leaders, and education technology leaders of all grade levels.
About the Presenter
After nearly a decade of teaching high school English, debate, theatre, and speech, Laura Thomas joined the Education Department faculty at Antioch University New England. She currently serves as the Director of the Experienced Educators Program, which provides MEds and certificates for working teachers. Laura teaches in the PBL/Critical Skills Classroom concentration and its related programs in Integrated STEAM Education and Teaching and Learning. Her primary areas of study center on the development of teachers’ philosophies, resistance to change, and student-centered classroom practice. Laura was named a 2010 Phi Delta Kappa Emerging Leader and has served as a community facilitator and consulting editor for Edutopia since 2014. She is also an ISTE community leader and has been published in Edutopia, EdWeek, Kappan, and the Journal of Staff Development, and is the author of Facilitating Authentic Learning (Corwin Press, 2011).
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