Chapter 11 reflection

In chapter 11, the author discusses the feeling that you and your students have been somewhere after completing a project together is one of the results of using project based learning approach. Your students should also not feel like this is the end of the project instead the author mentions that at the end of the project your students feel like they have opened new doors and should have many possibilities for exploration.

There are several ways to bring the project home for your students when using PBL, one is asking them if we continued this project what would you like to do next? This ground them in thinking about the concept further than they would have if just starting and stopping the project. The author also discusses the importance of sharing the journey with others which could be done through the online community or through conversing with colleagues about successes and failures and how important doing this is in the classroom.

The concepts in this chapter are very interrelated with our project because we also use the project based approach to stress thinking about how students could carry out the information they gained from the project to the real world. Through doing this children would not be simply starting and stopping their project but using it in their everyday life’s to improve not just their physical fitness but also their overall mental health which is very important in the early years. I think the thing I  liked most about this chapter was how the author discussed entering a project into a contest was a great way for students to put the best work forward while keeping them on topic and engaged because the care intimately about how their public work will be displayed. This is something I will implement in my classroom one day to have fun and keep the kids motivated toward our goals for the year.