Description of what occurs as a result of using the Project-based learning approach.
Critique your work: plan a project debrief with your planning team, use this time to to draw out each others best ideas for improvement. If collaboration occurred long distance, continue communication using whatever tools you found useful during the project.
Share your insights:
- Share your project ides with an existing network where teachers from around the world turn to inspiration, good ideas, and ongoing projects they can join.
- Create a project library. If your school or district does not have a place to archive project plans, work with your technology coordinator or instructional leader to develop one.
- Turn your project into an archive on the web. Include on here, student work samples and teacher reflections.
- Publish your project. A variety of Web and print publications invite teachers to share examples of well-conceived projects.
Become a resource for your colleagues: Consider turning your experience into a professional development opportunity for your colleagues, and help them gain new insights into project based learning.
Enter a contest: Entering your project into a contest gives you a chance to put your best work forward. You may gain more exposure for your project and for your students which can help raise the profile of what you are doing in the classroom.
Enjoy the journey: Take time to think about how far you have come and what is coming ahead.
Discussion on ways to “bring your project home”.
By the time a project is over, students and teachers should feel as if they have been somewhere together. The project should leave both the students and the teachers with vivid memories, artifacts, and souvenirs they have collected along the way, and plenty of new ideas to experience the next learning project. Project endings open new doors and create connections that teachers can build into future project designs. The start of the project took a lot of time investment to make the project the best it can be. It is essential to spend some more time at the end of the project to reflect on what students have learned and how you might want to share your valuable insights with others.
Discussion on how concepts in this chapter relate to your topic/project.
This relates to our project because it allows us to think about what we could do after the project is over. We have planned a presentation to present our final project and that is a great way to reflect on what we have done throughout the process.
Susan, I really like that you broke the PBL into sub-categories because it made it very easy to follow. I also like how you talked about what each thing was, that made it very easy to understand the results from Project Based Learning. I thought that your reflection was very easy to follow and liked the information. Great Reflection! I also agree when you talked about bringing the project home, because we have to present what we have done throughout the whole semester. It is a great way for us to reflect by presenting our webpages and talking about the ideas that we came up with. It will be really cool if after we were done presenting, then we could meet and reflect all together, but I guess that’s what the blog is for.
ReplyDeleteSusan, your reflection is very good! While reading the chapter i was confused on what it meant by "bringing your project home". Your reflection did a great job a rephrasing the idea and making it more understandable. This idea is important because it's a vital way to gain the students understanding by reflecting at the end of the project what things they liked or didn't like, what they found useful and what they will take away from each project.
ReplyDeleteI like that you talk about sharing your projects with teachers around the world to get feedback. It is always nice to get feedback from other people but getting them from professionals in other countries could be majorly beneficial by getting different viewpoints!
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