project-based learning Archives

25 Sep 2016

Entry 06 – Projects In Class

We have wrapped up week 6 of school. Here is the prompt that several teachers and I reflected on this week: How do you incorporate project-based learning into your class? This depends on which class I'm teaching. Robotics is basically all project-based while in math I've really only done one or two projects in the last couple of years. ROBOTICS PROJECTS I don't really know how robotics can be anything but a project-based class...unless we just took a bunch of notes on how the robot works without actually building the robots. I'm in my fourth semester of teaching robotics (it's…

15 Jun 2016

The Final Episodes of Middle School Robotics

I realized I hadn't shared my final two episodes of Middle School Robotics here on the blog. I'm really happy with how the whole series came out. It was fun thinking through new ways to film or edit each new episode, as well as provide a glimpse of the progress students were making. I may or may not do another 'season' of it in the future. I kind of want to push myself to film more of my math classes, which will force me to make better math lessons; having a teacher walk through problems at the board makes for…

27 Mar 2016

Week 27 – Project Week Presentations & 3 Act Math

The highlight of the week was the Project Week presentation fair. I wrote about project week in some of my previous posts, and here is a video from last year's Project Week. The work the students did was impressive to say the least. I scurried around this year as well getting as much footage as I could. It's hard because there were 10 presentations going on at a time and the presentations were only 10 minutes long. I tried to get footage of at least two presentations every 10 minutes. The video was a ton of fun to put together,…

07 Mar 2016

Week 26 – Observing Montessori Style & Project-Based Learning

This week seemed pretty brief. I was out (for the first time this year) on Wednesday to observe our elementary campus and their Montessori approach to education. Also did a bit of final assessing for current units before our break. While spring break isn't for two weeks, this next week is something my school does called Project Week. There are no classes and students spend the week on any project of their choice. It's awesome :) OBSERVING OUR ELEMENTARY MONTESSORI CAMPUS The Khabele School haS three campuses; the early childhood campus (18 mo - 5 yrs), the elementary campus, and…