the LINC Erie Avenue North Philadelphia
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Hannah Pittel A collection of images during my first experience teaching
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The LINC is a high school in North Philadelphia that has adopted a project-based learning environment. According to PBLworks, Project-based learning is a student-centered pedagogy that involves a dynamic classroom approach in which it is believed that students acquire a deeper knowledge through active exploration of real-world challenges and problems. Students learn about a subject by working for an extended period of time to investigate and respond to a complex question, challenge, or problem. It is a style of active learning and inquiry-based learning.
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Justin Deutsch, a media and graphics teacher at The LINC, addresses his classroom on April 26, 2019 in North Philadelphia, Pa.
A security guard sits watch at the front entrance of The LINC on April 26, 2019. The security is a precaution to keep the student body and staff safe.
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Angel, a senior, works on his project about democracy and voting behaviors. The students in Mr. Deutsch’s class create videos of relevance using journalism techniques and practices to explore modern issues and events.
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Daisy, a senior, interviews a classmate about her experience being a first generation American child of parents who immigrated to the United States.
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After working on hard news stories about female business owners in Philadelphia, the students were given a more creative assignment. Mr. Deutsch’s class is studying democracy and the variety of things that are affected by government. Students have split into groups depending on their interests to produce a visual record of their experiences with democracy. One group is discussing immigration, an individual is creating art about homelessness, and two are creating a video about registering to vote. This project is partnering with National Geographic for their student-driven campaign titled Our Democracy.
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Seniors brainstorm ideas for a video they hope to make about voting and registering to vote at eighteen years old. They intend to approach classmates in the hallways and interview them about voting. The two want to put a comedic spin to their video. Although the students are given strict guidelines for video editing, they have smaller projects where they are allowed to be more creative.
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The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character, that is the goal of true education. -Martin Luther King, Jr. 13
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