Focus Topics and Questions for Productive Learning

Stanistaw D. Glazek & Seymour B. Sarason. (2007). Productive Learning: Science, Art, and Einstein's Relativity in Educational Reform. Corwin Press: CA. ISBN# 1-4129-4060-5

Topics and activities to be worked on while reading the book:

1. Develop a list of criteria to use to distinguish between productive and unproductive learning.
2. Describe the concept of context of productive learning. What would it look like in the practice of school?
3. Identify examples of instructional methods, strategies, ... to describe and explain how each fit or does not fit the criteria.
4. Include examples of methods and strategies that can apply to science and non-science subject matter.
5. Include in the examples an analysis of the quality of teacher-student interpersonal relationships possible with the implementation of the instructional method and or strategy.
6. Include in the examples an analysis of the quality of curiosity possible with the implementation of the instructional method and or strategy.

Chapter 3 and Chapter 4
Identify a film, identify some examples of what you believe was productive in it, and explain why you believe it was productive.
Mr. Holland’s Opus -
Stand and Deliver -
Billie Elliot -
October Sky -

Chapter 5
With respect to A Letter to the Reader Page 74 which of the six numbers do you relate with? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,

Chapters 5-16 I want to provide support for all of us in understanding
Questions, comments, discussion chapter 5 A Letter to the Reader
Questions, comments, discussion chapter 6 Light Carries Energy
Questions, comments, discussion chapter 7 How fast is Light?
Questions, comments, discussion chapter 8 What is Light? What is Ether?
Questions, comments, discussion chapter 9 How Can We Describe the Energy of Light
Questions, comments, discussion chapter 10 The Principle of Conservation of Energy
Questions, comments, discussion chapter 11 Max and Ming
Questions, comments, discussion chapter 12 Max and Ming Their Frames of Reference
Questions, comments, discussion chapter 13 What Time is it on a Distant Clock?
Questions, comments, discussion chapter 14 Max and Ming Review the Concept of Time
Questions, comments, discussion chapter 15 Einstein’s Theory of Relativitiy
Questions, comments, discussion chapter 16 How E=MC2 Comes About

Chapter 17 - Pull all the questions 1-6 together to use for science educator position paper and apply in independent projects.