As a
student, the end of a successful project should leave you with vivid memories,
souvenirs and artifacts you have collected along the way, and plenty of ideas
for shaping your next learning adventure. Good projects open the door and
create connections that you can build into future project designs. As a
teacher, fostering student engagement means encouraging them to think beyond
the set class time, to encourage them to continue interaction with project
members, and therefore to be thinking about and constructing their own reality
at any time of the day. At the end of a project, students understand project
management, big picture thinking, meeting deadlines, having a global audience,
and the importance of being professional. The overall end result of using the
project-based learning approach is that students will become more independent
and the teachers will be more prepared.
“Bringing
your project home” is simply wrapping up a project and making sure your
students are proud of their hard work. In order to “bring your project home” it’s
important to capitalize on your investment, critique your work, share your
insights, become a resource for your colleagues, enter a contest, and end the
journey. As a teacher, we need to make sure that were aware of what our
students’ skills are and acquire these skills into their projects. It’s important to have teachers and students
reflect on their project so that they can improve the project next time. Having
a teacher to student relationship is important because it will emerge a
stronger ability to cope with the demands of 21st- century learning.
The concepts
in this chapter relate to what this class is all about, project-based learning.
This chapter discusses the end result of a project and ways to bring the
project home. In our group we are all using these concepts to bring our project
home.
I agree that the end results of project-based learning is that students become more independent and teachers are prepared. Students learned alot of skills while working on their projects and most skills helped them begin to self-monitor and self-manage their time.
ReplyDeleteI agree that its' important to reflect on the project with your students and to take note of what worked and what didn't. this can help students to make changes in projects they may partake in down the road.
ReplyDeleteI agree that PBL has a better ending result on students then just traditional assessing. I also agree that it is important to spend time reflecting with students on the work that they have done.
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