My Project Work

My current project work is researching the PBL (project based learning) process at three levels, elementary, middle and high school. I am fortunate to work in an innovative environment that allows for me to co-facilitate pbl work at all levels 4th-12th grade.

What I have discovered this year is that I am really passionate about PBL work. Although I have known this all along being in an environment where the day to day reality allows for PBL work to occur fairly seamlessly is pretty amazing.

This year's journey has had some successes and some bumps along the way. I have documented the entire journey in another blog called "Two Educators, One Journey." The "Two Educators" blog consists of daily reflective posts not only on my PBL work but on the year in general.

"Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome."
Arthur Ashe

Friday, January 21, 2011

End of Day Reflection

Did I achieve my daily goals?

Check off all project plans:
  • Goal accomplished-Yay!
Mini conference with each student/group after completion of first benchmark:
  • Almost we have two groups to check on Monday.
This week was pretty intense and fast paced in terms of our work. The students are really not use to having things so structures and being pushed to provide detailed plans. One part of me thinks that this is good thing to go through with them. The other half of me still wishes that their own self motivation would drive them forward. However, when assigned work that they have to cover I think it is to be expected that they have to be consistently "coached up" and motivated to learn. This is probably why I dislike the structured nature of this PBL.

However, what I like about the projects is that some students are really getting into things and discovering some neat things.
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