Benefit of student-driven project-based learning:
A quality project is:
- Project-based learning is student-centered. With “teacher-centered” methods like lecturing and note-taking, you are the sole dispenser of knowledge. Projects give students ownership and control of their own learning as they seek out learning that’s meaningful to them and accomplish it on their own terms.
- Projects allow students to use real-world skills. It’s no secret that student motivation skyrockets when they see their learning as relevant to the real world. (Remember the driving example I mentioned earlier?) Depending on your community and location, infusing a “real world” feel into language learning can be challenging, to say the least. But projects are a perfect way for students to apply what they’re learning to real-life situations. They can experience the value of language and culture first-hand, instead of just listening to you tell them about it.
- Projects encourage the use of higher-order thinking skills. Yes, we know you’re probably tired of hearing about Bloom’s Taxonomy, but we’re going to remind you anyway. As teachers, our task is to empower students to utilize those higher-order skills: analyzing, evaluating and creating. When you’re teaching a language, there are days when you feel like you never get past remembering and understanding which, while necessary, represent the very bottom of the hallowed learning pyramid. A quality project is a unique opportunity for students to utilize knowledge at the highest level.
A quality project is:
- Relevant. Does this project relate to real-world situations? Will students use their language skills to solve real problems? Think navigating conversations or producing cultural products that can be used or enjoyed.
- Aligned to curriculum goals and learning outcomes. We hate to burst your bubble… but remember that the whole point of everything you do is student learning. Will your students be working towards your learning goals? Or is this project simply “fluff”? Identify your standards and desired student outcomes that will be met through classroom time on this project.
- Student-centered. If it’s a quality project, then all you have to do is give them a bit of direction and guidance, and send them on their way. Allow students to choose their own topics (within reason) and give them plenty of leeway to exercise their creativity and problem-solving skills. What they come up with just might surprise you!
- Rigorous. It’s just human nature: when we don’t have to work for something, we don’t value it. It’s the same with learning. Students should struggle, wrestle and at times even become frustrated. Allow it to happen, but be available to provide scaffolding at that spot right between frustration and despair… so that they don’t give up. Remember that this is how you felt when you were learning your second language.
- Fun. As much as they need to struggle, there must also be an element of fun in a great project. Something about it must spark and hold student interest so that they go right to work on it every day with little to no prompting. Perhaps it incorporates a favorite activity (like sports, music, drawing or video games). Or perhaps it addresses an aspect of culture that intrigues them (like food, celebrities or holidays). You know your students better than anyone else, so find that unnameable something that translates into fun for them.
Chinese pictographs creation:
Fan Dance:
充满想象力的对话:
Students use their imagination to use Chinese in creative ways :) They only learned Chinese for 2 months.
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拼音101:
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Pinyin 102
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biography stories:
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Posters - This is Me:
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Students Final Videos 2020 Spring:
7th Grade videos:
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8th grade videos:
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Traveling Around the World in 80 Days
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