Out of the many excellent points and ideas “Reinventing Project-Based Learning” brings up I can not second loudly enough the idea of creating authentic projects for an authentic audience. When teachers focus on big ideas, compelling topics, and connect learners to the real world amazing things can happen in the classroom. I know that all learning can’t be completely authentic but the closer we can get to making learning relevant the more engaged and motivated our students will be. I have always been fascinated in learning about how other teachers do this.
One goal I have this year is to be able to use what I am learning in this cohort to as the book puts it “design projects that cause students to stretch their intellectual muscles in way traditional learning activities may not.” I know that this starts with being intentional in my planning and by analyzing my learning targets to check for the deeper levels of Blooms
As much as possible I want my classroom to be one in which kids hardly ever have to ask, why are we learning this?
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