实验室教学

When founder John Dewey created a new kind of school in 1896, he embarked on one of the most important educational experiments of the new century to come. Dewey’s intention was to challenge conventional attitudes about childhood education and to discover “how a school could become a cooperative community.”  

As a philosopher, he believed that learning was an intensely social process. The most effective schools, in his thinking, were those that constituted small communities. 学生 learned best while engaged in activities that involved creative problem-solving and responsibilities to fellow students. 在这样一个社区里, 每个成员都有自己的角色, 执行的任务, and learned what it meant to be a productive citizen. Learning, in other words, was not too different from life. 在他的著作中, Dewey explained that education by memorization and drill, 与此形成鲜明对比的是, 儿童严重发育不全.

从早期开始, the teachers at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools have taught with the same pioneering renown as Dewey himself. They rose to meet the considerable challenge of putting his ideas into action. Records kept by teachers in the first few years of the Schools indicated enthusiasm for innovations, especially since results were often well beyond anything achieved in classrooms with conventional rows of wooden desks and routine, 重复的课程.

今天的教师也不例外. With nearly 85% of faculty with advanced degrees, the quality of teaching and learning at the Laboratory Schools remains distinct, 创新, 和严格的. As an academic unit of the University of Chicago, our faculty work with world-renowned scholars as they cultivate their own practices and curriculum. 

创始人约翰·杜威实验室学校的创始人约翰·杜威

玛丽五世. Williams Award for Excellence in Teaching

Mary Williams taught in the Lower and 中学s for years, and her career at Lab included co-founding MacWillie’s Day Camp in 1975 with former Dean of 学生 Larry McFarlane. The camp ran for 24 years and was the precursor to 夏天实验室. Mary died unexpectedly in 2000 and this award was created in her honor. 

玛丽五世. Williams Award for Excellence in Teaching, includes a $5,000 honorarium for professional development. Winners have used the honorarium for a range of professional development activities. 最著名的, 蓝色Balliett, 第一个冠军是在2000年, took time off to work on a children’s novel, 成为了最畅销的 追逐维米尔. 

Winners are chosen by the director and are individuals who embody the spirit and qualities that were so evident in Ms. Williams: 

  • An educational style and approach that speaks to the whole child
  • The ability to construct knowledge from practice and experience
  • 团队合作解决问题的方法
  • A respect for students' individual qualities
  • An interdisciplinary approach to education that uses the city as a stage for learning
  • Personal immersion in projects for which the faculty member has a passion
  • 幽默感

2023杰弗里·马哈里
2022劳伦·斯奈林
2021特雷西·艾登
2020约瑟夫·德罗戈斯
2019年，米歇尔·桑德斯
2018年莫林·莫里奇
2017 Rozalyn Torto
2016年莉萨·哈里森 
2015吉娜·艾丽西娅
2014年理查德·克鲁尔
2013年妮可·鲍尔
2012年Sam Nekrosius
2011年德洛丽丝·比顿
2010年辛西娅·奥克斯
2009年Stephanie Mitzenmacher
2008年Lisa Sukenic
2007年凯伦·普特曼
2006年西尔维·安格林
2005年Vicki Schneider
2004年凯蒂·辛克莱
2003年凯西·潘
2002比阿特丽斯·哈里斯
2001年凯蒂·贝尔 & 黛安•布鲁姆
2000年《美高梅手机娱乐官网》
 

Lab has had more Golden Apple-recognized teachers than any other school

自1986年以来, Golden Apple annually selects 10 outstanding Chicago teachers to receive this prestigious award. Teachers become lifetime members of the Golden Apple Academy of Educators, 设想, 发展, and supports programs for teachers to make them more effective in the classroom.

In addition to the Golden Apple Award for Excellence in Teaching, the Foundation also recognizes Teachers of Distinction, award finalists whose superior teaching work was additionally noted by the selection committee. Teachers of Distinction are recognized for their distinguished contribution to teaching and are asked to participate in the Golden Apple program. 每年, the Teachers of Distinction and ten Golden Apple Award winners are selected from a pool of hundreds.

Golden Apple Award for Excellence in Teaching (started in 1986) 2018 Heather Duncan (Awarded at South Shore Fine Arts Academy)
2012 Elizabeth Luna (Awarded at Murray Language Academy) 
2012年Zackary Ruelas(获圣. 马拉奇学校)
2009年克里斯蒂娜·海沃德 
2007年大卫·德贝斯 
2004年，罗莎·麦卡拉格 
1994年迈克尔(斯派克)威尔逊 
1992 Jan Yourist (Awarded at the Chicago Academy for the Arts) 
1989年凯瑟琳·贝尔 
1987年汉娜·戈德施密特 
1986年兰德尔·福勒 

Golden Apple Teacher of Distinction (started in 2007) 2018年，丽莎·华盛顿·库泽尔
2014克里斯汀·弗兰克
2013贝克弗兰克 
2011年斯塔西·加纳 

金苹果决赛选手2021年，丽莎·华盛顿·库泽尔
2018年，丽莎·华盛顿·库泽尔
2003年凯瑟琳·佩恩

乔:作家、生态学家、艺术家

在奥巴马先生去世的那些年里. Drogos has owned the house and its surrounding 20 acres of land, 它已经成为一个生态工程, 非正式的艺术工作室, 偶尔的储藏室, 还有一个学习和玩耍的地方

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Lab partnerships with UChicago experts helps to keep Lab’s curriculum at the cutting edge

实验室教师培养参与公民

对杜威, U-High的英语老师凯蒂·贝尔说, 07年博士, democracy was “a way of being in the world where you live cognizant of your contributions to others, 在哪些方面你可以有所作为.”