New Insights and Their Complications

Since the last blog, I have learned many different insights through my classmates LPU's. They have showed me the importance of doing project based learning in lessons, and the struggles and complications that go along with them.

My classmates have all done a great job with their LPU's and have set the standard on how a project based learning lesson should go. I have learned that allowing the students to do a project with prior knowledge that they do have engages their mind and makes them think about previous ideas they have learned about. Once the previous knowledge is brought to their attention, adding a new idea with a project allows the student the chance to figure out the problems themselves. I have also learned to allow the students to answer their own questions and to figure ideas out for themselves otherwise they will always depend on you to help them.

Doing project based learning lessons has also shown me there are many complications that go along with it too. It takes along time to be comfortable with the teaching style of project based learning and it won't be an easy task. It is important to start a lesson a week or more prior to when you want to do it. That way you can think about the background ideas and a specific project and outcome you want the students to have. It is also important to remember that teaching in a new style will be a complication at first, but the more you do it the more comfortable you will become with it.