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Ch. 11
Kent Rodman

1. What occurs as a result of Project Based Learning approach is: You have a chance to reflect and critique your own work, you can share your insights, you can become a resource to friends and colleagues, and learn to enoy the journey. Many things happen with this approach, and most importantly majority of it will be remembered longer due to the fact that you actually applied what you knew.
2. A great way to bring your project home are: a final project which incorporates all that was learned throughout the semester as well as a reflective piece which explain what was learned. Teaching a lesson can effectively show was learned as well. If students can explain what was taught and use it effectively, then clearly a deeper level of learning has occurred.
3. This chapter relates to our project directly because we are about to wrap this semester and project up. As we do this, we can reflect on what we have learned and been able to use in order to work on the final project. This method may not work for everything, but it's definitely a good method for a lot of different areas.

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Abby Harrop

EDT

1. Once a student has completed a successful project they will feel as though they have been somewhere with you, it will leave them with vivid memories, souvenirs, artifacts, and ideas for future projects. Students are likely to remember the project and the concept better than just having simply read about it.

2. Nearer the end of the projects it is good to “bring your project home” in various ways. You need to capitalize on your investment; think about the planning that helped your project to be successful, if there were new ways you organized your classroom or communications, etc. You should critique your work, share your insights with others, become a resource for your colleagues, as you have experience now, possibly enter a contest, and take time to sit back, look how far you have come, and enjoy the journey.

3. This relates to our project of staying happy as we are ending now and we have to “bring it home”, end on a good note, reflect what we have done, share what we have done with others, we need to enjoy what we have created, and help other people we meet and go to school with to see why project based learning is good.

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1.     It opens new doors and creates connections that you can build for future project designs. By doing PBL, the students and the teacher learn a lot of new information, so as result they learn new things.

2.     Think about all the planning that helped make your project successful. It helps the student gain new insights in their world. Some ways to share project ideas are to: share them with an existing network, create a project library, turn it into an archive on the Web, or to publish your project. Entering the project in a contest gives the student the chance to put their best work forward.

3.     This relates to our project because we have to wrap up our project and end it on a good note.

Kent Rodman
Ch. 10 R&R

1. It is important to set aside time for reflection because school is rapid. Before moving to another project or task reflection allows time for students to feel good about their accomplishments and also may cause knowledge to stick more permanently.
2. It is important to reflect and elaborate on what they have done over the semester or project because it allows for students to reveal things they may not know about themselves. This will help them grow as learners and reflect on all the skills and knowledge they have learned and acquired. This is also a perfect time for you to reflect as a teacher and look at tools you used, as well as what was effective and what needs rethought.
3. Schools build tradition and identity by becoming known for things. A reputation for fun projects will spread through the community and future students will be ready to enter your classroom and learn before they are even old enough. Reputations are powerful, whether they are good or bad is up to you.
4. It is important to celebrate a project because it shows students accomplishments and gets other students motivated to do projects in the future. If students can see that you are excited, they will be excited as well because everyone knows excitement is contagious. So don't fake it, be excited and celebrate in whatever ways you can. Whether it be posting projects in the hallway, on websites, or word of mouth, continue to celebrate.
5. Concepts in this chapter relate to what we are doing because we are coming to the end of a semester. School is fast paced and doesn't wait for us to allow time for concepts to sink in. By reflecting and celebrating what we have accomplished, learned, or just realized we can spread a reputation among the student population as well as allowing concepts we have learned to sink in more permanently.

Abby Harrop

EDT

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1. Taking time to reflect is very important at any age after anything. A good reason for setting time aside for reflection is that students can take time and feel good about their accomplishments. It also is important as it could help to cement and make a concept or idea stick in their minds for the future. With the reflection students should look at their work from all different sides and different distances to see it from all differing views and make their own meaning from it.

2. It is important for students to reflect and elaborate. When they reflect they can set time aside to focus what they have done, gather there final thoughts, take a breath, step back, and enjoy what they have created and learn the concepts even more that they may be more likely to remember. It is important for students to elaborate as it can open students’ eyes It can plant ideas that students might want to use in the future and are excited to use.

3. Throughout time a big thing for teachers to think about is how they can establish tradition of their program/school to have a tradition of exemplary project work. Part of doing this, there has to awareness in others. When there is tradition future students, parents, and the community will know what to expect when having students in your class. They will know they will be creating exemplary projects and hopefully be having fun while they create them.

4. All good things need to be celebrated and it is important to celebrate students’ work. They will have put a lot of effort and time into them so they deserve to be praised and celebrated. Ways to do this are display student work, have a yea in review to celebrate learning, have a celebration party, or more. Each celebration can be different, big or small, but should try to include all of the following:

a. An opportunity to look back one more time.

b. Acknowledgment of how hard work and commitment contributed to the success of the project and a culture of excellence at your school.

c. Appreciation for those who helped.

d. A display of the learning, including both student creations and presentations.

e. A look inside the learners with opportunities for them to talk about their process and growth.
f. An opportunity to showcase projects to colleagues, administrators, parents, and others in your larger learning community.

5. This relates to our project of staying healthy as we have to remember to personally step back, reflect, and elaborate on other things we may want to do for our next task. We also need to celebrate and be proud of the work that we have created.

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1.     Taking time to reflect helps students feel good about their accomplishments, but the reflection can be the thing that makes learning stick in their brains. Since students are making their own meaning of what they learned, it means that they are ready to step beyond the experience to the next learning challenge. Another thing to do at the end of projects, the students need to do think about how joyous and gratifying the learning journey can be and it allows them to see/think about their growth in learning.

2.     It is important for students to reflect because they need to do think about how joyous and gratifying the learning journey can be and it allows them to see/think about their growth in learning. It is important for them to elaborate because as a teacher, you want to see where they want to go. Their answer might yield a more ambitious project than you would imagine.

3.     They build identity as they work. Community members start to recognize and then value students’ accomplishments, so then they give students support. Building awareness in others, allows for the ideas of traditions to come up.

4.     A celebration on learning builds your school’s identity as a place where kids get to learn through projects. They include:

a.     An opportunity to look back one more time.

b.     Acknowledgment of how hard work and commitment contributed to the success of the project and a culture of excellence at your school.

c.      Appreciation for those who helped.

d.     A display of the learning, including both student creations and presentations.

e.     A look inside the learners with opportunities for them to talk about their process and growth.

f.      An opportunity to showcase projects to colleagues, administrators, parents, and others in your larger learning community.

5.     This relates to our project because we need to reflect on our work so we can do better on the next part of our project.

Chapter 9

Abby Harrop

EDT

Chapter 9

1. There are many methods as teachers we can understand our students’ prior knowledge but one it talks about in the book is to do a K-W-L. The K is what they Know, the W is what they want to learn, and the L is what they have learned at the end of the lesson.

2. They call figuring out students’ knowledge “establishing anchors”. This allows us to gain a sense of where students are at the beginning of the lesson and how far they will grow and have to learn to meet their learning goals for each topic.

3. Knowing what students learned during the project is important and some ways to do that are to have student feedback, have students create something new that asks them to summarize or synthesize, allow for real-world experiences, such as allowing experts to critique students work, have the students enter a contest, or submit their own work for publication.  

4. This particular chapter relates to our project as if we were doing this we may have students do a K-W-L chart or some other activity to figure out their prior knowledge and figure out exactly how much they have to learn. It also helps us to think of ways students might be able to assess the project that they create through our lesson.