Please review the following guiding questions and key points of the module and then reflect on your learning in your personal blog:
Module Questions
1. How can projects help my students meet standards and develop 21st Century skills?
2. How can I use projects to enhance student learning?
Module 1 Key Points
- Research on learning and teaching indicates the importance of in-depth coverage of important subject matter, big ideas to organize understanding, ongoing assessment and purposeful authentic tasks
- Projects concentrate on scenarios that provide rich learning opportunities. They involve students in problem solving investigations and other meaningful tasks. Projects establish connections to life outside the classroom and address real world concerns
- The steps for designing projects include (1) Determining specific learning goals
(2) Developing Curriculun Framing Questions; (3) Making an assessment Plan and (4) Desigining activities.
