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Understanding ProjectsProject Zero/International Schools Consortium Partnership focuses on Project Zero's framework, Teaching for Understanding, with secondary attention given to issues about assessment and thinking dispositions, Multiple Intelligences, and the arts in education. Smart Schools provided a structure for schools by envisioning a learning community that is steeped in thinking and deep understanding; that engenders respect for all its members; and that produces students who are ready to face the world as responsible, thinking members of a diverse society. The StoryWork Project. This partnership with the International Storytelling Center in Jonesborough, Tennessee seeks to understand the power and role of storytelling in individual and community learning and development. How do communities craft and use stories to learn? How do individuals create personal stories that enhance their growth? Insights into questions such as these are revealed through extensive literature reviews and interviews with leading practitioners who use stories and storytelling in a variety of fields. Archivists and folklore leaders from the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian are also working with the project to share the work with the broader public. This project is funded by the Krispy Kreme Foundation. Teaching for Understanding: Enhancing Disciplinary Understanding in Teachers and Students was a collaborative effort of researchers and practitioners targeting middle and high school for the purpose of developing and testing a pedagogy of understanding. Understanding for Organizations is an action research endeavor, in collaboration with the Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano in Bogota, Colombia, developing a framework which foregrounds personal and organizational inquiry in the workplace and communities. Project Zero researchers are working with a group of administrators at the university to cultivate personal investment and action projects that advance various aspects of university life. Understandings of Consequence Project explores how students' limiting assumptions about the nature of causality impact their ability to learn complex science concepts and is helping teachers learn how to address these patterns so that students gain deeper understanding. Visible Thinking is an approach to teaching and learning that emphasizes the use of thinking routines and documentation to make thinking more visible in classrooms. Thinking routines support the development of students as self-directed learners and learning for understanding. Visible Thinking is used as the instructional approach in several projects and the ideas associated with it continue to develop. Use the following links to see selected projects in many of Project Zero's research areas: Learning in Out-of-School Settings Projects Multiple Intelligences Projects |
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