Friday, October 9, 2015
Chapter 3 Reflection
Identifying the most important topics or subjects your students should learn in your class are crucial for PBL. It is also important that these topics spark interest of your students. "Good projects connect directly to students' frames of reference, interests and experiences. I believe students are much more willing to learn when it's something they are interested in, so creating projects that you know students are at least somewhat interested in will make for successful learning through projects. I like the point that is made from page 63. It says that textbooks can still be used in PBL but rather than it being the foundation of the course, it becomes more of a reference book. Reading out of a textbook as the main way to learn is not what we should be doing in the classroom. Most students aren't even really retaining the information being read and if they do, they most likely will forget at least 50% of it. By doing more hands on projects, in which students are able to collaborate with other people while doing it will teach them much more than just the information they are learning about. It also benefits the overall learning experience when students know that their project(s) is of value of their community. It makes them feel like they are apart of something big and helps students to connect with the social and emotional aspects of learning experiences.
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Great job Erica the job of a teacher should be to create themes in lessons and projects that are of interest to students instead of boring students by rehearsing text for memorization. Although it’s hard to create lesson plans that contain the states core curriculum and adhere to students interests. It would be interesting to see what some strategies would be to understand children’s interest and how you could use that to plan your lessons using the states curriculum? Maybe a survey of some sort could asses what children like to learn about. The other piece that I really like is how you mentioned the social and emotional aspects to learning, mostly that children will engage and comprehend more deeply when they have a desire to learn something. Fantastic post Erica.
ReplyDeleteI also agree with Erika that it is very important when choosing topics that you chose those that spark your students interest. Creating themes throughout your lessons will keep the kids engaged and involved rather than just being bored and uninterested. I think that doing hands on projects that are tied together by a theme will make it easier to comprehend after already knowing some of the material before even starting. Great job guys!
ReplyDeletei love the idea of students picking their project because like you said they want to learn about it so they are more engaged in the subject.
ReplyDeleteI agree that projects should spark a students interest and make them question the world around them. More hands-on assignments and projects will help make the information stick with the students.
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