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How To Teach Us

The How to Teach Us online course was designed to help K-12 teachers integrate student voice into their classrooms. “How To Teach Us” was named as such because, in an effort to showcase strategies to enhance classroom practices around student voice, three separate documentaries were constructed to coincide with the three weekly themes of the course that specifically follow elementary, middle, and high school students.

The three focus areas for the course were: significant learning, day-to-day routines/schedules, and student-centered assessment practices. The course is designed to be completed over a total of 9 hours of work, with three separate assignments that ultimately culminate in a teacher presentation of learning (POL).

Course Enrollment

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Deliverables

  • Written self reflection, by course participants, on their own significant learning followed by an interview with a current student of theirs in order to compare and contrast.
  • The creation of a “Dream Schedule” for either current or prospective students that reflects student voice considerations into planning.
  • All assignments will culminate in a teacher POL on the subjects that were covered in the course.

Course Stats

Materials Needed

Throughout the course, you will need certain materials in order to properly create your comic. They are:

  • An Email
  • A video camera
  • A computer
  • Willing peers for feedback

Course Design By

Patrick is a former classroom art educator at High Tech High Chula Vista as well as an Instructional Designer for the Office of Graduate Education at MIT. Currently Patrick is working with the HTH Graduate School of Education to enhance user experience for all audiences both on, and off, line. 

Larry Rosenstock is CEO and founding principal of High Tech High, a network of twelve K-12 public charter schools in California. Larry taught carpentry in urban high schools in Boston and Cambridge and was principal of the Rindge School of Technical Arts, and of the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School. He is a winner of the Ford Foundation Innovations in State and Local Government Award, an Ashoka Fellow, and recipient of the McGraw Prize in Education.
Daniel Wise is an Educator in Residence at Tufts University’s Center for Engineering Education and Outreach. He previously worked as a humanities teacher at the original High Tech High and as an English teacher in New York City Public Schools.

Additional Course Resources

These resources are mentioned in the emails you receive after enrolling into the course. 

Email 1: Introduction To The Course
Email 2: Significant Learning
Email 3: The Day-To-Day
Email 4: How We Show What We Know
Email 5: Wrap-Up