Educational Leadership:Giving Students Meaningful Work:Seven Essentials for Project-Bas... - 1 views
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A project is meaningful if it fulfills two criteria. First, students must perceive the work as personally meaningful, as a task that matters and that they want to do well. Second, a meaningful project fulfills an educational purpose. Well-designed and well-implemented project-based learning is meaningful in both ways.
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Teachers can powerfully activate students' need to know content by launching a project with an "entry event" that engages interest and initiates questioning. An entry event can be almost anything: a video, a lively discussion, a guest speaker, a field trip, or a piece of mock correspondence that sets up a scenario.
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A good driving question captures the heart of the project in clear, compelling language, which gives students a sense of purpose and challenge.
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