Name: Max Zinman Essential Question: How does teaching while learning affect how one learns? Prompt: Final reflection on Senior Project. Throughout my Senior Project, I was able to learn a[…]

I have thoroughly enjoyed my Senior Project. Every single aspect was an utter joy from beginning to end, and I learned a TON while doing it! First, some answers to[…]

Name: Max Zinman Essential Question: How does teaching while learning affect how one learns? Prompt: Metacognition Incidentally, my entire senior project is actually about metacognition. My question is mainly about[…]

This week in senior project, I continued to work on my essay, learned about circuits in Sustainable Energy and led discussions on homework problems more in class. On the note[…]

Name: Max Zinman Essential Question: How does teaching while learning affect how one learns? Prompt: Text investigation of outside sources Source 1: https://ideas.time.com/2011/11/30/the-protege-effect/ Source 2: https://effectiviology.com/protege-effect-learn-by-teaching/ In both of the[…]

At this point in my project I have started made some decent headway into writing my paper on lasers. I’ve also noticed something about where I’m finding answers to my[…]

Name: Max Zinman Essential Question: How does teaching while learning affect how one learns? Critical Reflection #3: Now that you’re three weeks (half way) into your senior project experience, are[…]

This is the first of hopefully at least a few mini blog posts that I’ll write during the rest of senior project that I personally won’t count towards the two[…]

This week was a fantastic week for me, both in terms of my experience teaching and my laser research. In the 10th grade physics classes this week, we spent a[…]

Name: Max Zinman Essential Question: How does teaching while learning affect how one learns? Prompt: Describe a moment and analyze In week one of senior project, I started working on[…]

This week, the two classes I’m helping teach (Physics 10A and 10C) had whiteboard discussions about the momentum card sort we’d been working on earlier in the trimester, and Preethi[…]

For both the Sustainable Energy class I’m taking and my lasers research project, I have been doing most of my learning through resources like articles, videos, and podcasts. At other[…]

Name: Max Zinman Essential Question: How does teaching while learning affect how one learns? Critical Reflection 1: What I Know vs. What I Don’t Know There are a couple things[…]

While this was a weird week for me, since my senior project largely revolves around the LREI schedule and school was closed on Thursday and Friday, I was still able[…]

During this first week and a half or so of Senior Project, I have been jotting notes down on any effects I may notice on my learning abilities and processes.[…]

On Thursday Physics 10 section 10C had class, and on Friday 10A had class. During the Thursday class, the class went into breakout rooms to whiteboard their responses to questions[…]

Today I had my first experiences as a teaching assistant for Preethi’s 10th grade physics classes. Both classes, 10C and 10A, had somewhat slow starts as both Zoom and the[…]

CONTRACT  Senior project takes the values and academics of LREI and allows students to explore these  areas in the real world. There are four major components: experiential learning (apprenticeship or[…]