Category: Perspectives on the Project Approach
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Informing Parents about the Project Approach
Teachers who are beginning their first projects often wonder how to inform the parents of their students about this new way of teaching and learning. Parent support for project work can provide many benefits, so it is important to make sure that they understand what a project is.
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Field Trips and Fieldwork
Teachers often get confused about the difference between field trips and fieldwork.
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Building an Appetite for Project Work
One main reason for doing projects is to get children into the habit of “unpacking” a topic and of exploring it in depth and, in that way, gaining a sense of mastery of it.
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Helping Children Take the Lead
As teachers, we often hope that working in projects will provide opportunities for every child in our class to feel ownership and take initiative in a class project. However, we sometimes lack confidence about how to get these kinds of things to happen. Following are some suggestions for possible ways to help children take initiative…
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Evaluating Projects
Below are some questions you and your assistants could ask yourselves as a beginning approach to evaluating your project work.
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The Horse Project (blog)
The Horse Project included in the “Projects” section of this site is avivid example of how teacherscan pick up on the spontaneous interests of preschool-age children and involve them in finding answers to their questions about something in their own environment worth learning about.