When getting started in the
Project-Based Learning journal teachers should keep in mind your learning
goals, the way you talk and engage with students, your classroom management
style, the physical arrangement of your class, how you think about assessment,
what you collect, and how you
communicate with parents and colleagues. Teachers need to be able to
adapt to notice change.
The overall benefits of the PBL
approach are the projects form the centerpiece of the curriculum, students
engage in real-world activities and practice the strategies of authentic
disciplines., students work collaboratively to solve the problems, technology
is a tool for discovery, collaboration, and communication, and teacher are
increasingly collaborating to design and implement projects that cross borders
and time zones.
Benefits to students that are
participation in PBL are they develop good communication skills and break
through cultural misunderstandings, they develop good inquiry skills, they
learn to be flexible with their working hours, the develop a fuller
understanding of how the world works and that it does not revolve around them,
and finally students achieve the feeling that, through communication with and
understanding of the other people, individuals can do something about changing
the world.
One
issue that needs to be considered when using the PBL approach is
teachers need to become familiar with some technology that they may not have
already been familiar with. In order for their student to learn as much as
possible teachers need to be very confident in what they are teaching them.
New Technology High is an example
of the New Technology Model because it is a place that PBL drives the entire
curriculum. This is a school for the 21st century. Using technology they teach students to think
critically, collaborate and use technology as a problem solving tool. It’s a
small design so students and staff can know each other better. Teachers are
given incentives and time to work together so good ideas are shared.
I think the benefits the students get from PBL is great. Communication with others, flexibility and being able to answer a question in a creative way is important to have in the future. I agree that teachers need to be familiar with PBL in order for their students to learn it. Hopefully by the end I will have a better grasp so I can help my students understand PBL.
ReplyDeleteI agree that teachers need to become more confident with new technology. I think the sooner we expose the students to the newest technology that can help them learn new materials the easier it will be for them when they get older and need to find something out.
ReplyDeleteGood summary of the chapter. it really gives a clear view of what project based learning is. I agree that collaboration with other teachers is important. And in some ways it may help brige the gap with the teachers knowledge of the technology if they work with others that do understand it.
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