Reflection 4

Engaging the students in the learning process might be hard but it is impossible if you know the how to do it. Sometimes confusing can be the best idea to make the students work further to find the best solutions. However, if the confusion give the students a wrong impression, the teachers might have done more damages. There are a few potential pitfall you might noticed in your classroom and you must avoid to do as a teacher:

·      *   Long on activity and short on learning outcomes.

·      *   Technology layered over traditional practice.

·      *   Trivial thematic units

·       *  Scripted with many steps.

As a teacher, you must turn your classroom effectively by providing the students with the best sources to have a successful project. Project should have some important features, then you can call it “Best Project”. Project should help the students to understand different learning path that constructs the students’ critical thinking. Moreover, effective project must have a driving question that captured the students’ attention. As a result because the projects is realistic, it might help the students to understand the core meaning of the subjects. Also, project should be organized, which helps the students to understand the project and explain to each other. Also, teachers must have the students to learn by doing and practice the project. Finally, students need to cooperate and use technology in order to understand the project.

If you a good plan, you will have a successful project. As a result, one successful project, led you to have another successful project. The author presented some examples that shows where the project idea come from. Suzi and Jane provided some example about project “News stories, contemporary issues, students’ questions or interests, a classroom irritant put to educational use and a mashup of a great idea and new tool.” However, the project need to be design and there are some steps to design the project:

·        * Having a final list of the learning objective.

·        * Finding out the evidence of understanding the project.

·        * What the students need to do for creating the project.

·       *  How to get the students attention.

In conclusion, this chapter provide me with a great ideas that help me of having my students’ attention. Moreover, it provides me with of how I can make the project work effectively in my classroom. As a teacher, I would follow the writers instructions in order to have a great project.