{"id":696,"date":"2017-09-01T04:36:18","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T09:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/curriculumsolutions.net\/?p=696"},"modified":"2018-02-22T08:25:18","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T14:25:18","slug":"what-does-real-world-hands-on-instruction-look-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/curriculumsolutions.net\/blog\/2017\/09\/01\/what-does-real-world-hands-on-instruction-look-like\/","title":{"rendered":"What does Real World, Hands-On Instruction Look Like?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cNo child rises to low expectations. ” \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u2013 Stephen Ritz<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Contexts, the \u201chow\u201d of student activities, can make or break a student\u2019s ability to retain important information.\u00a0 Some contexts \u2013 like things that only occur in classrooms and things that resemble tests \u2013 result in less engagement than others: they are intrinsically less interesting to students.\u00a0 Less engagement = less retention.\u00a0 One of the most engaging contexts is Real World activity:\u00a0 something that either simulates a real world experience or something that is<\/em> a real world experience. The Cult of Pedagogy<\/em> <\/a>podcast offers a look at a whole cluster of phenomenal real world activities that were born out of an accidental foray into plants in How One Teacher Started an Urban Gardening Revolution<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>In this interview with Stephen Ritz, the founder of the Green Bronx Machine, Ritz recounts his long history of trying to bring hands-on, engaging instruction to a community acknowledged to be one of the poorest in the U.S.\u00a0 Ritz fell backward into farming through a gift of some daffodil bulbs, which left him and his students trying to figure out what to do with hundreds of blooms.\u00a0 Later, they ventured into growing food, and the internal logic of such a project took over: \u00a0the natural, real world outcome was to either either eat it or sell it. So that\u2019s what they did. And from that beginning came a whole host of engaging, hands-on projects that were important to the kids.\u00a0 They explored areas of interest \u2013 growing, designing, marketing \u2013 and addressed the needs of the students and the community \u2013 hunger, health, employment.\u00a0 Ritz is fond of saying he\u2019d \u201crather fail at a high bar than succeed at a low one,\u201d\u00a0 which exactly captures much of the premise in our Cognitively Rigorous Instruction<\/em> training.\u00a0 If you enjoy the podcast and have 13 minutes to spare, you can also watch Ritz\u2019s TED Talk<\/a>.\u00a0 Find the podcast on Podbean, iTunes, or on the Cult of Pedagogy website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cNo child rises to low expectations. ” \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u2013 Stephen Ritz Contexts, the \u201chow\u201d of student activities, can make or break a student\u2019s ability to retain important information.\u00a0 Some contexts \u2013 like things that only occur in classrooms and things that resemble tests \u2013 result in less engagement than others: they are intrinsically […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/curriculumsolutions.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/curriculumsolutions.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/curriculumsolutions.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curriculumsolutions.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curriculumsolutions.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/curriculumsolutions.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":886,"href":"https:\/\/curriculumsolutions.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions\/886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/curriculumsolutions.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curriculumsolutions.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curriculumsolutions.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}