Work
Process & Products - Doing the Work:
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Keep account of the
development of the project as a whole.
Reflect together with the children in class discussion on the
progress being made by groups and individuals contributing to the
project in various ways.
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Collect books,
videos, internet web pages and other secondary sources of information
to support the children's growing understanding of the topic of study.
Books can include fact and fiction, although in Phase 2 the
emphasis should be on
reality rather than fantasy.
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Document the
children's work. Collect photographs of the children at work, especially when
there is no finished product, such as the dramatic play or block
construction of younger children.
Collect copies of work samples at various stages of the work to
show the work processes. This
is helpful in understanding the learning processes of the children,
communicating with parents and demonstrating learning through
classroom displays.
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Continue to develop
assessment strategies for project work.
If you teach older children you may be faced with decisions
about grading. You may
need to give grades or you may develop viable alternatives to grading
for the assessment of the project work.
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Develop multistage
work with the children. Read
the chapter in on Work Processes and Products, Chard, S.C. The
Project Approach, Bk.1. In
the case of older children help them to understand the importance of
quality at each stage of the work.
Develop rubrics with the children to help them with self
assessment. In the case
of the younger children invite their ideas frequently in helping
others develop work strategies and solve problems.
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Encourage volunteers
to help in your classroom, parents, grandparents, others.
It takes some time to communicate ways in which volunteers can
be helpful but it is well worth the effort if you find a few people
who can listen to the children, read books to them and be on hand to
help in practical ways without doing work for children or taking a
directing role.
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Read the Project
Approach Examples, Section showing Examples, the projects on the
Clubhouse (Pre-K/K), Flowers (Pre-K/K), Food, (Gr.3) & the
Iditarod (Gr.4)
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