Shake Things Up I'm finally getting around to writing about some of the previous projects I have designed and delivered this year. Term One of Year 9 2016 saw my team teacher, Shamaine Jacobs, and I teach a stand-alone English project about The Merchant of Venice for the first time. Based on the advice of our … Continue reading Shake Things Up: Making Shakespeare fun again
This year I have been making a concerted effort to create and alter projects to make them more authentic by focusing on establishing adult connections between students in the classroom and the world beyond those four walls. One of the proudest moments in my teaching career so far resulted from this effort in Term Two. … Continue reading Establishing Adult Connections through Authentic Projects
For me, being introduced to this innovative pedagogy of Project-based learning and seeing it successfully applied in a classroom setting cemented my resolve to teach and brought back the passion for education I thought I had lost.
At Parramatta Marist High the New Tech Network's Project Based Learning model is employed with Year 7-10. What is Project Based Learning? According to the Buck Institute: Project Based Learning is a teaching method in which students gain knowledge and skills by working for an extended period of time to investigate and respond to a … Continue reading Project Based Learning
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