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  • Students Give High Marks to the Field Test

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    Students Give High Marks to the Field Test

    In my previous blog, I described how teachers are overwhelmingly satisfied with the field test of the lesson ideas they develop at the AIER’s Teach-the-Teachers Workshop. Today, I would like to share my analysis of students’ evaluations of the implemented lessons.

  • John Dewey’s Ideas Alive Today at AIER

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    John Dewey’s Ideas Alive Today at AIER

    As AIER founder Colonel E. C. Harwood was a fan of John Dewey’s constructivist approach, I decided to reflect on how our education programming continues to be grounded in real experience.

  • Teachers Overwhelmingly Satisfied with the Field Test

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    Teachers Overwhelmingly Satisfied with the Field Test

    As part of our evaluation of the impact of AIER’s Teach-the-Teachers Initiative, we analyze the results of a classroom field test. Based on the evidence collected through the follow-up process, we are confident that the teachers are mastering the subject matter and the pedagogy for presenting it to students.

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    Berkshire Business and Professional Women Meeting

    On Monday, May 1, I was a featured speaker at a Berkshire Business and Professional Women meeting in Pittsfield, Mass. It was wonderful to connect with the organization, whose mission is “to promote full participation, equity, and economic self-sufficiency for America’s working women. Since 1965, the Berkshire chapter of BPW has been honoring local women…

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    Students Learn from Our Teachers

    In my last blog, I described how teachers improve their knowledge of economic concepts by attending our Teach-the-Teachers program. Today I would like to turn my attention to students. Students directly affected by our teachers are the ones who experienced the field test of the lesson—that is, they were in attendance the day of the…

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    Teachers Are Students at Our Workshops

    AIER’s Teach-the-Teachers Initiative (TTI) is a multiday program that provides high school teachers in various disciplines with understanding of economic concepts. The novelty of the program is the Economics-Across-the-Curriculum approach, which encourages teachers to incorporate economic concepts into their various fields of study. The program, therefore, appeals not only to economics teachers but to teachers…

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    Teach-the-Teachers Program Is Showcased in Boston

    AIER’s founder Col. E.C. Harwood encouraged “the educational aspects of the Institute’s work to be specifically aimed at teachers.” In addition, Harwood was interested in integrating John Dewey’s approaches to stimulating students’ and teachers’ intellectual eagerness. Dewey considered a systematic education in the subject matter as the first and the most important step for a…

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    Money School Receives an Award

    AIER’s Money School is a financial literacy program that supports survivors of domestic and sexual violence. AIER developed a curriculum that helps the survivors gain the knowledge, confidence, and connections to build their financial future. We collaborate with the Elizabeth Freeman Center of Pittsfield, Mass., which administers the program in Pittsfield, Great Barrington, and North…

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    Career Day on Campus

    AIER founder Col. E.C. Harwood encouraged the institute to apply John Dewey’s ideas on the education of young minds. In his book “How We Think” (1933), Dewey postulates that experience “is not a rigid and closed thing; it is vital and hence growing. … Experience also includes the reflection.” To provide a dynamic experience, we…

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    AIER’s Teach-the-Teachers Initiative: Classroom Focused

    Finally we have arrived at the last, or sixth, criterion for exemplary professional development workshops for teachers, which is “classroom focused.” Check my previous blogs that analyze how AIER’s Teach-the-Teachers Initiative workshops satisfy other criteria such as sustainability, intensity, collaboration, being job embedded, and data driven. The recent report, “Bridging the Gap: Paving the Pathway…

  • Students Give High Marks to the Field Test

    •

    Students Give High Marks to the Field Test

    In my previous blog, I described how teachers are overwhelmingly satisfied with the field test of the lesson ideas they develop at the AIER’s Teach-the-Teachers Workshop. Today, I would like to share my analysis of students’ evaluations of the implemented lessons.

  • John Dewey’s Ideas Alive Today at AIER

    •

    John Dewey’s Ideas Alive Today at AIER

    As AIER founder Colonel E. C. Harwood was a fan of John Dewey’s constructivist approach, I decided to reflect on how our education programming continues to be grounded in real experience.

  • Teachers Overwhelmingly Satisfied with the Field Test

    •

    Teachers Overwhelmingly Satisfied with the Field Test

    As part of our evaluation of the impact of AIER’s Teach-the-Teachers Initiative, we analyze the results of a classroom field test. Based on the evidence collected through the follow-up process, we are confident that the teachers are mastering the subject matter and the pedagogy for presenting it to students.

  • •

    Berkshire Business and Professional Women Meeting

    On Monday, May 1, I was a featured speaker at a Berkshire Business and Professional Women meeting in Pittsfield, Mass. It was wonderful to connect with the organization, whose mission is “to promote full participation, equity, and economic self-sufficiency for America’s working women. Since 1965, the Berkshire chapter of BPW has been honoring local women…

  • •

    Students Learn from Our Teachers

    In my last blog, I described how teachers improve their knowledge of economic concepts by attending our Teach-the-Teachers program. Today I would like to turn my attention to students. Students directly affected by our teachers are the ones who experienced the field test of the lesson—that is, they were in attendance the day of the…

  • •

    Teachers Are Students at Our Workshops

    AIER’s Teach-the-Teachers Initiative (TTI) is a multiday program that provides high school teachers in various disciplines with understanding of economic concepts. The novelty of the program is the Economics-Across-the-Curriculum approach, which encourages teachers to incorporate economic concepts into their various fields of study. The program, therefore, appeals not only to economics teachers but to teachers…

  • •

    Teach-the-Teachers Program Is Showcased in Boston

    AIER’s founder Col. E.C. Harwood encouraged “the educational aspects of the Institute’s work to be specifically aimed at teachers.” In addition, Harwood was interested in integrating John Dewey’s approaches to stimulating students’ and teachers’ intellectual eagerness. Dewey considered a systematic education in the subject matter as the first and the most important step for a…

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    Money School Receives an Award

    AIER’s Money School is a financial literacy program that supports survivors of domestic and sexual violence. AIER developed a curriculum that helps the survivors gain the knowledge, confidence, and connections to build their financial future. We collaborate with the Elizabeth Freeman Center of Pittsfield, Mass., which administers the program in Pittsfield, Great Barrington, and North…

  • •

    Career Day on Campus

    AIER founder Col. E.C. Harwood encouraged the institute to apply John Dewey’s ideas on the education of young minds. In his book “How We Think” (1933), Dewey postulates that experience “is not a rigid and closed thing; it is vital and hence growing. … Experience also includes the reflection.” To provide a dynamic experience, we…

  • •

    AIER’s Teach-the-Teachers Initiative: Classroom Focused

    Finally we have arrived at the last, or sixth, criterion for exemplary professional development workshops for teachers, which is “classroom focused.” Check my previous blogs that analyze how AIER’s Teach-the-Teachers Initiative workshops satisfy other criteria such as sustainability, intensity, collaboration, being job embedded, and data driven. The recent report, “Bridging the Gap: Paving the Pathway…