Campers’ News Student Engagement
October, Week 8
http://www.edutopia.org/project-learning-teaching-strategies
Project-based classrooms with an active-learning environment make such in-the-flow moments more common. Yet these same classrooms require many teacher and student skills to work well. As teachers, we can feel overwhelmed when we try something new and experience chaos instead of flow. The good news is that the strategies for creating and managing high-quality projectlearning environments are productive in any classroom, whether project learning is a central part of the curriculum or not. Here are ten ideas that you can start practicing in your classroom today to help you create more moments of flow. 1. Create an Emotionally Safe Classroom 2. Create an Intellectually Safe Classroom 3. Cultivate Your Engagement Meter 4. Create Appropriate Intermediate Steps 5. Practice Journal or Blog Writing to Communicate with Students 6. Create a Culture of Explanation Instead of a Culture of the Right Answer 7. Teach Self-Awareness About Knowledge 8. Use Questioning Strategies That Make All Students Think and Answer 9. Practice Using the Design Process to Increase the Quality of Work 10. Market Your Projects
This article originally published on 3/11/2009
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