Week 5 Project Based Learning

hello everyone,

Project based learning is a great approach. it creates friendly learning environment where students learn language for purpose. It foster motivation and develop critical thinking in students. I got familiar with pbl  last year. I myself did not do but I joined other teachers to do projects.  One English teacher in our town did several projects and I joined her project Folk Tale and  Digital Storytelling and Photojournalism this year. When I was reading article by Susan Gaer I saw folktale project she did with class was the same like we did. Our English teacher like to  to join to projects from www.iearn.org  she took Folk tale project from there. The task was to take one Tajik folk tale and translate  it in English and publish  and share with our countries. She also asked students to illustrate the folk tales.  In such way we had 30 folk tales and got grant and published our book. This project had great success. Students were happy to see the result of their work. They read a folk tale to elementary school and kindergarten. Every students had their task to do: some searched book with Tajik folk tale, some had to  translate them, some typed  inMs word and every one after submitting folk tale  read other countries folk tale and discussed in group and looked for moral. Students become very interested  and motivated.They stood out from other  students at school.  This project increased their self esteem.  They become very proud when they accomplished all  the projects.

But as for rubric we do not use it PBL it is something for me. But now I realize how it is very important to assess student.

In future I plan to do my own pbl.I become very interested.

Akbar