![]() ![]() Profitable and “Utilize My Real Estate” Well I thought hmm interesting Idea. I first started my education program because a friend told me I needed to be more It is a two way experience if you are open to it. ![]() ![]() I have never come away from being a guest speaker or teaching a class that I didn’t learn something new from my students, and a new and more significant way to teach and inspire. In my own experiences in teaching I have found that I always learn something from the students I teach and the students I lecture at local colleges. The amount of engagement, critical thinking, cooperative learning, problem-solving, and learning that happened that year fueled my passion for this type of education, and was the guiding light for my work later as I founded The Emerson School, a PPS charter school that has Project Based Learning as its foundation.” – Joanna Sigmund, edTPA Coordinator, Concordia’s College of Education Over the course of the year, we completed Projects based on Women’s History, for which the students made a replica of Judy Chicago’s “Dinner Party” art exhibit one on the topic of trees which integrated a photography study, including an exhibit of the students’ work with the work of Ansel Adams as their inspiration and finally one on restaurants for which the students designed, created, financed, and executed a full-service restaurant for the entire school over the course of the week. I was also blessed to have a group of students that was excited about learning and willing to try just about anything. I was not only allowed to-but was highly supported in-using Project-Based Learning in the classroom. “In one of the early years of my teaching career, I was given a very small class in a school that provided the teachers with a great deal of autonomy. I have a beautiful quote from a teacher below. Were not, and their experiences changed them and changed me. I still tell my friends even though I was born here in America my parents Obviously being raised by two holocaust survivors shaped my view of Natzi’s took everything from them, but they could not take their mind or theirĮducation. Generation valued an education for themselves and their children because the My mother who was a holocaust survivor used to tell me that Jewish people of her Lifting yourself up while lifting up others?Ĭreating something that will live beyond you? The love of something or someone? What does inspire us? Money? Success? The love of something that costs money?Īcquiring an education that nobody can take away from you? Inspiring others? This is a conversation that could go on for days! But I'll try and shorten it up! ![]()
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