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Rural Solutions to Rural Problems
Date: August 11, 2011
Summary: Through an array of site practices, programs, and partnerships, NWP sites provide teachers with opportunities to explore the strengths and challenges that define rural education in America. This episode features what NWP has learned from its member sites about teaching and learning in rural schools.
Excerpt from Show
Place-based teaching focuses on asking the student to learn within the local community of the child, so the classroom curriculum is driven by a need to define, study, and seek solutions to challenges that are found in the local community, not necessarily what's in a textbook. The deep-down underneath skills are the same that you would have in the textbook, but rather than be driven by a textbook or program, it's driven by what they're finding there in their own homes. And in that way, the community becomes the starting point for cross-curricular instruction.
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Duration: 1 hour
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Related Resources Discussed on the Show
- Book review of Sonya Salamon's New Comers to Old Towns
- Book review of Michael Corbett's Learning to Leave (PDF)
- The Best of Both Worlds: A Critical Pedagogy of Place (PDF) by David A. Gruenewal
- Rural Leaders, Rural Places (PDF) by Kathleen Budge
- Rural Voices, Country Schools
- Coalfield Writers Youth Camp Summer 2011 Flyer (PDF)
- Lesson Plans from Coalfield Writers Writing Project
- Oregon Writing Project
- Project Direct's YouTube Channel
- Oregon Writing Project and Project Direct Blog
