Chapter 10

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.