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Subject: Our AWESOME trip to High Tech High
Subject: Our AWESOME trip to High Tech High
We learned a TON today! Wow!
Some general background on HTH:
Opened in 2000
Currently have 5 high schools with approximately 550 students /school
Graduation rate 100%
100% of graduating seniors continue to a post secondary education with a high majority attending
a four year college or university
Over 80% of these students complete a degree
The goal at HTH is to develop learners who create beautiful work and are successful in their high school and college career. Some of the major take-away ideas we had were:
*critique as an integral tuning process for both students and teachers
*great projects grow out of great question
*we saw how the project is the learning framework; the content and various methodologies
were components; and the major emphasis was creating their best work that would be
exhibited to the school and community
*use of online technology to flip the learning (lecture homework)
*show and discuss real world models of professional work to collectively emphasize
characteristics of good works (student and teacher collaboration)
*learning is based on relationships (student to student, student to teacher, teacher to
teacher, school to community, school to home)
*the three main things all students need to be successful in college
Self-efficacy
Social capital (the ability to build relationships)
Engagement in community/school
Barbara Bates
Science
WSR High School
