Projects

WHAT IS LEARNING THROUGH PROJECTS?

Projects represents a strategy for learning where the students are engaged in complex activities. They usually seek for work through some steps-fazes and in certain time-more than several studying days or sometimes through the whole semester.

Projects should focus on developing a product, during what students organize all the activities, they conduct a research, they solve problems and they systematize information. Although the project as a methodology is not a new concept, it is a model which supports many tasks which teachers are dealing with in today's teaching, as meeting with some standards, incorporation of an authentic grading, including higher levels of thinking activities and gaining some experiences which develop students' individual interests and abilities.

WHY SHOULD WE USE THIS METHOD?

	*the student is an active participant and is responsible for the process of learning*
	*the learning has long-term effects*
	*what the students learn after the project is complete finds use and is connected to the reality*
	*the students are motivated because of their active participation, they decide how to get the answers and how to solve the problems which are in the project*
	*the results of the project are an excellent mean for improvement of the communication between the teacher and the student (they discuss and study together)*
	*the student learns how to learn*

THE ROLE OF THE STUDENT IN THE PROJECT BASED LEARNING

	*the student participates actively in solving the problem*
	*the student bares the responsibility for his education*
	*the student is motivated and satisfied with his achievements*
	*the student comes to his own conclusions with awareness*

THE ROLE OF THE TEACHER IN THE PROJECT BASED LEARNING

	*the teacher represents a coordinator of the work*
	*the teacher helps in the process of the project realization*
	*the teachers watches the students during the project*
	*the teacher marks the students' work*

	MARKS
	students' web sites