Hello everyone!!
Project -based learning is useful method used in
schools.Project based learning help students learn how to work independently
and discover the answers to their own questions.Furthermore learning to
complete projects in teams, students gain communication and leadership skills
that they can adapt to the real world.The
Project-Based Learning appears like an innovating educative proposal, that is
characterized so that the learning is student centered, promoting significant
learning as well as the development of a number of important skills and
abilities.
Essential elements of project-based learning
- Key knowledge, understanding, and success skills – the project is focused on student learning goals, including curriculum-based content and skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, collaboration, and self-management.
- A challenging problem or question – the project is framed by a meaningful problem to solve or a question to answer, at the appropriate level of challenge.
- Sustained inquiry – inquiry is iterative, students engage in a rigorous, extended process of asking questions, finding resources, and applying information to reach a satisfactory solution.
- Authenticity – the project features real-world tasks, processes, tools, and performance/quality standards. It can have an impact on others, or create something that will be used or experienced by others. It can have personal authenticity relating to students’ personal concerns, interests, and issues in their lives.
- Student voice and choice – students have input and (some) control over the project, including the questions they generate, the resources they use, how they work, and what they create.
- Reflection – reflection should be an explicit part of project journals, formative assessment, discussions at project checkpoints, and public presentations of student work.
- Reflection on the content knowledge and understanding gained helps students solidify what they have learned and think about how it might apply elsewhere.
- Reflection on skill/competency development helps students set goals for further growth.
- Reflection on the project itself – how it was designed and implemented – helps students decide how they might approach their next project, and helps teachers improve the quality of their PBL practice.
- Critique and revision – teach students how to give and receive constructive peer feedback to improve their process and products.
- Public product – students make their project work public by explaining, displaying and/or presenting it to people beyond the classroom.
It is a good thing that new teachers incorporate this method in Albanian classes because PBL is all about collaboration, unity, critical thinking and problem solving by means of real situations/ authenticity. I am sure it can enhance much more our pupils understanding
ReplyDeleteThats exactly what we need in our classes,collaboration between students and student centered approach.It will be very useful for our students to prepare them for the real world bu using PBL
ReplyDeleteHi Sheila !!! It is important for us to learn different methods in order to set students in centr and PBL will be a useful approach for us and our students :)
ReplyDeleteHi Sheila!
ReplyDeleteProject Based Learning is quite obviously needed for the students since it develps different skills, even communication and lidership skills. What grabs more the attention of students is the fact that they have to deal with real word situations and PBL encourages solving this kind of problems through doink different projects.
Hope we will use this method in our learning and teaching process.
Good luck! :) :)