Dan Garvey

Hampton Bays, New York, US

Science Teacher, Mount Sinai High School (New York); (previous) Educator, THINK Global School.

(5) Big Ideas from the Podcast: 

• why he believes: “Show kids you are willing to step into an uncomfortable realm of learning yourself.”
• building a process so that you as a teacher can step back so that the students own what lies ahead
• why he believes an ideal PBL project is one that “slows time down”
• 2 barriers to PBL adoption in traditional schools: 1) schools measure the quantitative (from college matriculation to schools impacting local real estate values), and 2) existing learning cultures in a school or the larger community itself
• what years of spearfishing have taught him about honoring the ‘learning’ process. Hint: the fish is not actually the goal.