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Maker education is an offshoot of the maker movement, which Time magazine described as "the umbrella term for independent innovators, designers and tinkerers. A convergence of computer hackers and traditional artisans, the niche is established enough to have its own magazine, Make, as well as hands-on Maker Faires that are catnip for DIYers who used to toil in solitude". [3]
Over the past ten years, NYC Teaching Fellows has become the largest alternative certification program in the country and has provided NYC public schools with over 13,500 new teachers. [4] Since 2000, the NYC Teaching Fellows program has helped to staff the highest need subject areas in New York City’s highest-need schools.
Reinventing project-based learning: Your field guide to real-world projects in the digital age. Eugene, OR: International Society for Technology in Education. Falk, B. (2008). Teaching the way children learn. New York: Teachers College Press. Katz, L. and Chard, S.C..
[13] [12] [14] In New York City schools that work closely with TCRWP, 20% more students performed at or above standards on the state's English Language Arts test in 2016. [15] At least 10,000 New York City teachers have attended Project workshops and TCRWP holds millions of dollars in city contracts. [16]
TNTP, formerly known as The New Teacher Project, is a U.S.-based organization dedicated to ensuring that poor and minority students have equal access to effective teachers. It helps urban school districts and states recruit and train new teachers, staff challenged schools, design evaluation systems, and retain teachers who have demonstrated the ...
Sylvia Libow Martinez an American engineer whose book Invent To Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom [1] co-authored with Gary S. Stager has been acknowledged as the "bible" of the school Maker Movement. She, with this one book, is largely collected by libraries worldwide.
Creative Pedagogy generalized the research in the field of creativity (Graham Wallas, Alex Osborn, J.P. Guilford, Sid Parnes, Ellis Paul Torrance, etc.) and put it into the classroom to improve the teaching/learning process. Creative Pedagogy is the result of applying the studies of creative process to the education process itself.
TEP was founded in 2009 by Zeke Vanderhoek, a Yale graduate and former middle school teacher. Prior to founding TEP, Zeke was the founder and chairman of the educational company Manhattan Prep. In 2013, The New York State Education Department unconditionally renewed TEP's charter through 2018. [1]