Hello my friends:
We are finishing week 5, it is amazing? Isn’t it? I cannot believe how fast the time runs, it is because when we are learning and enjoying what we are doing.
This week was full of learning experiences, reading about PBL and WEBQUEST had gave me a really clear idea about research projects and how important this is for our students, creating in them the necessity to work by their own, as many participants in this e-course have expressed, project based learning is an approach that immerse the students in real life issues, and because this is the last week of class with my students we are doing a project.
Student’s number: 18, High School, age 12-13 years old, they are going to do a research work about economic situation in their neighborhood, to do that they will be working in groups, and they have to go around their neighborhood and asking some questions about, for example: How many people live in the house? How many people are working? Are all the children in the house studying? These are some of the questions they will do; of course the interviews will be in Spanish but the students will submit a report in one page they will do a summary about what they investigated. I believe that with this project the students will learn about the real economic situation, they will be more conscious about how their parents work to pay their education and they will make an effort to write the summary in English, expressing what they feel.
I would like to share these quotes with you my friends, thinking in the enormous responsibly that we have as teachers.
Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.
Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.
Greetings
Loly
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ResponderEliminarBy the time I was reading your post, something came to my mind.
ResponderEliminarI remember having read an article about 'Wearing Uniforms at School'. In that article, most of U.S.A. students said that they prefer not to wear a uniform because it destroys their individuality.
PBL is a great technique we can follow our students' demands: Individualty for expressing in words their perspectives about the world they are surrounded by.
I totally agree with what you said about Creating the necessity to work by their own.
Kind regards
Dalton