Project Based Learning Part 1
- A good project for PBL's has an authentic audience, is relevant, and motivates the students to do well and achieve highly.
- The BEST projects for PBL's involve the community some how, which allows for the students to see that what they are doing is related to the real-world.
- Use content that is relevant to the grade/children you are teaching as well as content that will drive your student to learn.
- Choose content that you can tie in with content standards.
- Use peer evaluation as a means of grading.
Project Based Learning Part 2
- Know that every project might not go well.
- Make sure the content that you use in projects is a safe subject for all children and parents in your classroom.
- With PBL, never limit your students as to how much/how far they should go. They will always go above and beyond.
- PBL's are not always successful in the way that they go correctly, but in the way that the students learn.
- Help to show your children that all work that you present in your class is meaningful.
iCurio
- iCurio is a curated online search engine for students to search safely. It is already filtered and set up for students to use themselves just like a search engine.
- It has a storage capacity for students and teachers to store content that they find.
- It helps for teachers to present and teach virtual organization.
- It has kid friendly buttons.
- It is great for student use.
- It allows students to create folders and drop different items into it.
Discovery Education
- Discovery is an awesome resource for students and teachers.
- It has pictures and videos of different Science and Social Studies topics, which teach them about various topics.
- It helps to bring text to life.
- It is a great research tool for students to learn about different topics.
The Anthony
- You have to be a learner to be an effective educator.
- In teaching, work is not separate from play.
- Teachers learn during their free-time.
- Teaching is hard work, it is fun, it is rewarding.
- Be flexible.
- Set goals, but be flexible with them.
- Flexibility is key.
- Set a goal to have 100% engagement. (It's critical)
- Make sure no children are left behind by motivating the students to learn.
- Reflect.
Use Tech Don't Teach It
- Try to incorporate technology into the classroom.
- Technology should not be part of the curriculum.
- Instead, give assignments dealing with the technology.
- Once school begins, start incorporating more and more technology into their learning, but only introduce one at a time.
- Do not expect perfection.
- Reflect on mistakes with using the new technology.
- Give your students that chance to reflect on using the technology as well so that they can correct mistakes that they made and master the content.
- Ask important questions.
Additional Thoughts About Lessons
- Create a lesson based on if it will fit in with your year.
- Break your unit up into weeks that it will fit.
- Create a daily lesson plan.
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