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John Abbott on Critical Periods of Brain Development
Posted January 28th, 2008 by carrieannJohn Abbott discusses the need for us to understand critical ‘windows of opportunity’ in human development in order to maximize learning. In particular, he discusses very key – and very different – opportunities afforded by the early years and the period of adolescence.
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John Abbott is the President of the 21st Century Learning Initiative, an initiative to facilitate the emergence of new approaches to learning in the United Kingdom.
Are Teenagers Key to Human Progress?: John Abbott Re-examines Adolescence
Posted January 30th, 2008 by carrieannJohn Abbott explores the idea that the stage of adolescence may be one of the core driving forces of human evolution.
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John Abbott is the President of the 21st Century Learning Initiative, an initiative to facilitate the emergence of new approaches to learning in the United Kingdom.
Battery Hens or Free-range Chickens?: John Abbott on the Goals of Education
Posted January 30th, 2008 by carrieannJohn Abbott asks what kind of people our education system is aiming to produce.
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John Abbott is the President of the 21st Century Learning Initiative, an initiative to facilitate the emergence of new approaches to learning in the United Kingdom.
The changelearning website project emerged from the collaboration of John Abbott and Heather MacTaggart, the Executive Director of Classroom Connections, a Canadian non-profit educational organization dedicated to optimizing student learning.
Supporting or Breaking-in Our Youth? : John Abbott Looks at Schools
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John Abbott is the President of the 21st Century Learning Initiative, an initiative to facilitate the emergence of new approaches to learning in the United Kingdom.
Audio Presentation: Getting It Right With Adolescents
Posted March 12th, 2008 by carrieannIn this presentation, I Hold in my Hand a Bird, Dr. Pat Clifford and Dr. Sharon Friesen provide us with the insight of their combined 40+ years of teaching and address the question of educational reform from the perspective of how to ‘get it right’ with adolescents.
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This presentation is from the Canadian Education Association’s 2006 Symposium Getting it Right for Adolescent Learners.
Let Me Do and I Understand: John Abbott on Cognitive Apprenticeship
Posted January 31st, 2008 by carrieannJohn Abbott speaks about how an expert can lead the novice (student) through the stages of learning.
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John Abbott is the President of the 21st Century Learning Initiative, an initiative to facilitate the emergence of new approaches to learning in the United Kingdom.
Audio file: Gordon Neufield on adolescence, peer-orientation and education
Posted March 12th, 2008 by carrieannDr. Gordon Neufeld discusses adolescence and the current context of education at the Canadian Education Association’s 2006 Symposium Getting it Right for Adolescent Learners.
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Small is Beautiful: Relationships are Central to Program for Young Offenders
Posted January 23rd, 2008 by carrieannSince closing its large juvenile training schools 20 years ago, Missouri has become a model for the nation in juvenile corrections. The small scale and therapeutic, family-oriented atmosphere distinguish Missouri’s juvenile facilities from the training schools common throughout most of America.
Peering into Teenage Skulls with MRIs
Posted March 26th, 2008 by carrieannIn this interview, Dr. Jay Giedd, Chief of Brain Imaging at the Child Psychiatry Branch of the National Institute of Mental Health, discusses what MRI technology is revealing about how the brain changes and develops during adolescence.
(Source: Program #4489 of the Earth & Sky Radio Series
with hosts Deborah Byrd, Joel Block, Lindsay Patterson and Jorge Salazar.)
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Hands-on Trades Courses Get Students Out of Class and On the Job
Posted January 23rd, 2008 by carrieannIn an effort to expand upon opportunities for students, Focus Programs are designed to provide students in trades in-class and practical on-site experience.
timing is everything
Human brains come with a genetic timetable for growth. Certain periods like the early years and adolescence are key to optimal development.
Building on Strengths Through Collaboration
Posted January 28th, 2008 by carrieannTeachers, administrators, students, parents and schools work together to identify strengths and improve learning in Vancouver schools.
adolescence
Adolescence is a critical period of development when crucial skills are either developed or abandoned. It may also be an important evolutionary adaptation that has helped the progression of our species. Are we getting learning right for teens?
Making Life Part of the Curriculum
Posted February 11th, 2008 by carrieannHow does a 19th Century Maori war chant figure into the college aspirations of a bunch of student athletes in El Segundo? Just another means of preparing students — not just for college, but for life.
the teenage brain
Learn more about how adolescence is a critical period of brain development.
Imagine a School: Students Describe What Schools Would Look Like If We Got It Right
Posted February 11th, 2008 by carrieannImagine a School was a dramatic performance created by high school students from Halifax, Toronto and Vancouver that opened the Canadian Education Association‘s symposium “Getting it Right for Adolescent Learners” in 2006. Find out what adolescents are saying about their experiences in high schools and what schools would look like if we “got it right”.
building the wrong skills?
Secondary schools are typically structured in ways that fail to foster the development of 21st century skills like creativity, problem solving and ingenuity.
making life part of the curriculum
Posted January 7th, 2008 by carrieannHow does a 19th Century Maori war chant figure into the college aspirations of a bunch of student athletes in California? Just another means of preparing students — not just for college, but for life, suggests Dan Golden, who was recently hired for the new position of director of life planning and experiential learning at the private Vistamar School in El Segundo.
( Los Angeles Times ) (02-Jan-2008)
a critical evolutionary adaptation
Perhaps the craziness of adolescence is really an evolutionary adaptation that is critical to the advancement of the human species.
Getting It Right for Adolescent Learners: A Call to Action
Posted January 10th, 2008 by carrieannInspired by events and conversations at their 2006 symposium, the Canadian Education Association developed this site to create a meeting place for Canadians interested in exploring how we can get it right for adolescent learners. The site highlights principles that represent what we know about how best to meet the academic, social and emotional needs of adolescents in our schools and makes recommendations for action by educators, schools, government and education associations.
Removing barriers to apprenticeship training
Posted January 10th, 2008 by carrieannAn important study in the area of apprenticeship training in Canada helps set the agenda for removing perceived employment barriers for skilled trade apprentices and to dispel some of the myths and reinforce the concept of apprenticeship training in the minds of the public.
(Source: Canadian Education Association)
cognitive apprenticeship
Learn about how cognitive apprenticeship works with the natural predispositions of the adolescent brain.
Apprenticeship training in Canada
Posted January 14th, 2008 by carrieannThe apprenticeship system has a long history as an effective vehicle for work-based learning, but modern times have seen negative attitudes to apprenticeship and a poor image of trades, as well as a lack of information and awareness of apprenticeship. This is unfortunate because in the contemporary Canadian context, apprenticeship can help to address two distinct problems: labour shortages in the skilled trades and youth unemployment.
(Source: Canadian Council on Learning)
The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World
Although these powerful entries from high school students’ own diaries paint a brutal picture of prejudice and violence in urban American, The Freedom Writers Diary is an ultimately uplifting and unforgettable example of how hard work, courage, and the spirit of determination changed the lives of a teacher and her students.
Crazy By Design: Adolescence, a Critical Evolutionary Adaptation
Posted January 17th, 2008 by carrieannThe latest research and theories from evolutionary psychology, neurobiology and cognitive science demonstrate the various ways that humans have evolved over time to be extremely effective learners. John Abbott discusses what current research from various fields can tell us about how the adolescent brain works and how educators can work with adolescent learners to maximize their potential.
The Primal Teen: What the New Discoveries about the Teenage Brain Tell Us about Our Kids
For anyone who has ever puzzled over the mysterious and often infuriating behavior of a teenager comes a groundbreaking look at the teenage brain written by the medical science and health editor for The New York Times.
can the learning species fit into schools?
Posted January 17th, 2008 by carrieannEducation critic John Abbott quotes Bill Gates who states unequivocally; “High schools are obsolete… by that, I mean that even when they are working exactly as designed (they) cannot teach our kids what they need to know today”. Abbott explores what we know about our species that might help us understand better how humans learn and how to provide young people with the learning experiences they need.
(This paper was delivered to The Campaign for Learning, 10th June 2005, Kensington Town Hall, UK.)
Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Matter
A psychologist with a reputation for penetrating to the heart of complex parenting issues joins forces with a physician and bestselling author to tackle one of the most disturbing and misunderstood trends of our time — peers replacing parents in the lives of our children.
Inside the Teenage Brain
Posted March 26th, 2008 by carrieannDr. Jay Giedd is a neuroscientist at the National Institute of Mental Health. Recently, he spearheaded research showing for the first time that there is a wave of growth and change in the adolescent brain. He believes that what teens do during their adolescent years — whether it’s playing sports or playing video games — can affect how their brains develop.
(Source: Frontline Report, PBS.org)
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Audio interview – Peering into teenage skulls with MRIs
Evolutionary Principles of Human Adolescence
What’s up with teenagers? This books applies evolutionary analysis to the study of adolescence, integrating the best understandings of both psychology and biology in an effort to understand the modern teenager.
Time to Reset the School Clock
Posted January 21st, 2009 by carrieann“Every kid is different. Why force each mind to fit the same timetable?” asks this article written by a British Columbia teacher. If individuals learn in a variety of styles and on different schedules, who benefits from the formal rigidity of current school timetable? And if we know that learning is not confined to the classroom, couldn’t we ‘do’ school differently?
The Self-Directed Learning Handbook: Challenging Adolescent Students to Excel
This book offers teachers and principals an innovative program for customizing schooling to the learning needs of individual students— and for motivating them to take increasing responsibility for deciding what and how they should learn.
The Case Against Adolescence: Rediscovering the Adult in Every Teen
This groundbreaking book argues that adolescence is an unnecessary period of life that people are better off without.
Too Safe for Their Own Good: How Risk and Responsibility Help Teens Thrive
Canadian children are safer now than at any other time in history. So why are we so fearful for them? Internationally respected social worker and family therapist Michael Ungar tells us why our mania to keep our kids safe is causing us to do the opposite: put them in harm’s way.
The Primal Teen: What the New Discoveries about the Teenage Brain Tell Us about Our Kids
For anyone who has ever puzzled over the mysterious and often infuriating behavior of a teenager comes a groundbreaking look at the teenage brain written by the medical science and health editor for The New York Times.
