By Greg Harris
Participatory Learning through Phenomenon Based Learning: Moving from the Learning Commons into the Classroom
Abstract
In this engaging paper you can read about one school’s successful journey of implementing Phenomenon Based Learning – “real-world phenomena providing the starting point for learning”. Students experience continuous, deep learning and the author includes an interesting selection of student projects as exemplars. Successes, challenges and steps to implementation are provided.
Greg Harris retired from 28 years of teaching; nearly 18 years were as a teacher-librarian, Greg was a resource teacher for all TL in Simcoe County DSB for 2 years. Greg is an instructor at Lakehead University – Education Orillia where he instructs first year teacher candidates in Language and Classroom Management, Planning and Assessment. Recently, Greg presented to all 200+ first year teacher candidates that teacher-librarians are their allies and collaboration superheroes. Both groups applauded … there is hope for collaboration! Second year teacher candidates are next.