Courseware
Our courses inspire students to fall in love with learning by encouraging curiosity about the world around them and helping them develop an informed voice. Students explore real challenges affecting their communities and design solutions as scientists, technologists, and innovators. Thematic content incorporates financial literacy, digital citizenship, and interpersonal skills to prepare every learner to be a leader in tomorrow’s workforce and ambassadors in their communities.
Our model includes three key stages of investigation.
IEA Experience powered by Global Learning Models
Internal Investigation
Ask Questions
Inquiry-based instruction supported with 21st century technology allows learning tailored to distinct learning needs, interests and aspirations of individual students. Each student learns to ask guiding questions and pursue the answers, becoming self-directed learners.
External Investigation
Situate learning in community
Take students out of the classroom and into the city. Industry partners can expose students to a wide range of jobs and career prospects, discuss practicalities and possibilities, and challenge students to question their assumptions about the world around them. This allows students to navigate the city beyond their neighborhoods and acquire skills needed for post-secondary success.
For the Stage Chemistry Elective Course, GCE students investigated the following guiding question:
What would my theater look like?
Here’s the scenario students were challenged with:
The Goodman Theater partners with students throughout Chicago who participate in their Student Subscriber Series. Each school, and each student within the school, is challenged to create a theater blueprint to host a “sponsored adaptation” of A Christmas Carol. In order to create a realistic blueprint of a theater, students take on and blend the multiple roles of set designer, architect, and executive producer. Student blueprints juxtapose their unique ideas with Goodman’s Albert Theater and demonstrate relationships of scale & proportion through visual and narrative explanations.
Students will create a blueprint of the space to be used as a theater, highlighting the parts that matter most and describing the decision process to create the feel of the theater. The project will be digitally published in magazine form. Comparisons will also be made between the chosen theater and Goodman Theatre itself to show relative size and scale.
Click on the theater blueprint to the right to see the students’ work.
Action Project
Redefine Achievement
Students are given the freedom to demonstrate mastery using their own voice and chosen medium. Instead of standardized multiple choice tests and essay exams, students communicate through digital portfolios, podcasts, multimedia presentations, and research projects. Collaborative or individual, our courses allow for individual learning styles and interests to shine through.
Courses
UrbanX has partnered with Global Learning Models to provide the following freemium courses and Mastery Projects.
