SCHOLARSHIPS 2019 AVAILABLE PUBLIC PROGRAMS SUMMER INSTITUTE FOR TEACHERS ARTCENTER.EDU/TEACHERS DESIGN-BASED LEARNING Igniting Creative Thinking to Teach K–12 Common Core Standards with Performance- Based Assessment HOW DBL WORKS HANDS-ON Educator Doreen Nelson’s DBL ACTIVITIES ENHANCE The Summer Institute for method “sneaks up on learning” by giving teachers a specific series of STUDENT PERFORMANCE Teachers is an intensive five- steps that are built around Essential A high school biology teacher Questions described in the standard wanting to teach genetics might day interactive experience K–12 curriculum content. It activates have students build a miniature students’ innate creativity and city inhabited by 3D creatures that based on the proven and higher-level thinking skills through are assigned hereditary traits. The quickly made miniature models—a students then study inheritance creature or avatar, a shelter, a patterns and learn to make predic- award-winning Doreen Nelson neighborhood, a colony, a city— tions. This practice of inquiry mirrors designed and built by students. the work of geneticists who explore Method of Design-Based This provides a fun, interactive and gene behavior. authentic experience with practice Learning (DBL). in seeking and solving problems A third-grade teacher wanting to and teaches students to become teach the mathematical practice of accountable for learning. perseverance and problem-solving Doreen Nelson’s DBL method provides tools and despite initial mistakes might also A teacher using DBL Design have students build a miniature city. techniques for teaching students to become Challenges asks students to create Solving problems related to what creative and critical thinkers with the ability to “never-before-seen” solutions to they build leads to reflection on the any content-related problem. changes made. As they calculate apply Essential Questions as they learn to use how many people can fit in their and reuse information across the required K–12 structure, find various routes to AWARD-WINNING extend or decrease travel time, and curriculum. This method is never restricted by PROGRAM adjust the square footage of their building, they discover multiple paths the changing world of content standards. Founded in 2002, ArtCenter’s to solve a problem and learn the Summer Institute for Teachers (SIFT) validity of revision. received the 2006 Award of Merit Regardless of your grade level, subject or need for in K–12 Architectural Education Building roughly made 3D designs to from the American Architectural integrating the curriculum, DBL can make a dramatic solve problems based on content Foundation. difference in your classroom. Engaging students to objectives described in the required curriculum provides conceptual DBL was developed by Doreen ARTCENTER.EDU/TEACHERS learn through this hands-on methodology leads knowledge that leads students to Nelson, a professor at both to improved attendance, fewer discipline problems, understand academic material. ArtCenter College of Design Using what they make gives students and California State Polytechnic higher scores on Performance Tasks, and on the a personal context for learning how University, Pomona. Nelson founded Smarter Balanced and Next Generation Science to research, analyze and refine their the DBL M.A. program at Cal Poly ideas. They learn how to test their in 1995 and the DBL Certificate Standards Assessments. thinking through both informal con- Program in 2010. Her archive is versations and formal presentations. housed at the UCLA Library Special “MY STUDENTS INTERACTED MORE Civics, government, leadership This five-day institute provides three semester Collections where an exhibition of FREELY WITH ME AND WITH EACH OTHER abilities, communication skills and * her work was held from October units of credit and is open to K–12 educators, writing facility are central to the BECAUSE THEY FELT THEIR OPINIONS 2017 to January 2018. principals, administrators, college instructors methodology. AND SUGGESTIONS WERE VALUED…I WAS VALIDATED BY PARENTS’ AND Nelson directs SIFT with lead and after-school program directors and staff. ADMINISTRATORS’ RESPONSES. NOW I SEE Scholarships are available. instructor Jennifer Sorbara, coor- dinator of a DBL multidisciplinary MY ROLE AS AN EDUCATOR IS TO high school program in Walnut PROMOTE CRITICAL-THINKING AND Valley Unified School District, and CURIOSITY FOR LEARNING, RATHER THAN * Please check with your school district regarding transferability of units/salary points. Daphne Chase, a DBL second-grade SIMPLY DISSEMINATING INFORMATION.” teacher in the San Gabriel Unified School District (SGUSD). In 2015, MARTA ROSALES SGUSD applied the DBL methodol- Second-grade Teacher Pasadena Unified School District ogy to its curriculum; in 2017, it sent more than 30 K–12 teachers and 11 administrators to SIFT; and today, a cohort of its K–12 teachers are continuing with in-depth, yearlong DBL training. PARTICIPATING SCHOOLS “I WAS THE TYPE OF STUDENT WHO FOUND IT IMPOSSIBLE TO KEEP Design-Based Learning (DBL) SIMPLE EYE CONTACT, AND I SILENCED Summer Institute for Teachers 2002–2018* MY VOICE WHEN THE CLASS NEEDED DIVERSE PERSPECTIVES. NOW, I AM ALHAMBRA UNIFIED Sacred Heart HS Fair Avenue ES Wadsworth Avenue ES Kingsley ES THE STUDENT WHO IS WILLING TO SCHOOL DISTRICT Sahag Mesrob Armenian Francisco Bravo Medical Walgrove ES Neil Armstrong ES SING IN FRONT OF A STUDENT BODY (USD) Christian School Magnet HS Washington Irving MS Washington ES Century HS Sequoyah School Fremont HS Washington Prep HS Westmont ES OF OVER 6,000 PEOPLE.” Granada ES Stephen S. 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