reflection no.9

Project Strategy

Project strategy is defined as any activities be it individual or group, which involves investigation and solutions of the question under the teacher guidance.

features

1.            It extends beyound classroom teaching

2.            Carried out in real life situations

3.            involves investigation and problem solving

4.            effective interaction between students and the social environment

5.            teacher acts as a guide

6.            creates opportunities to acquire social skills and enables students to studeyfunctional aspects of the subjects 

 five principles

1.            principle of utility where it attempts to study and investigate a practical problem/situation

2.            priciple of readiness where teacher gives task to the students  and students have the opportunity to choose the purpose

3.            principle of learning by doing learners come to direct contact with the learning situation, acquiring the knowledge  and experience throught the practical experience.

4.            principle of freedom at work where teacher acts as a facilatator and students are given freedom to learn

5.            principle of socialization , which helps the learners to come in direct contact with the social environment making them to be able to live and adjust in their social environment.

There are four type and they are 

1.            Produce type,

2.            consumer type,

3.             Investigation type

4.             and the Drill type.

 And under the Investigation type there are three stage and they are as follows;

stage one: Classroom planning
in inculdes the providing and selection of problems for study. followed by formulation of hypotheses and the planing methods.

Stage two: Execution
it includes collection, organisation and interpreting of data followed by the review.

Stage three: conclusion
it includes reporting and incorporating/deletions and the evaluation.

Plan a project work

·                     firstly we have to select the topics keeping in mind the syllabus content, class level and availability of the the topic in school and the community. And most important thing the students should be given a range of topics to choose and the topic should enhance the application of the concept learnt in the classroom.

·                     Secondly we should know the format for the project work write up which include the title, table of contents, introduction, method, conclusion, acknowledgement and the references.

·                     Thirdly we should know how to collect the information. for the collection of the information we should know what information to be collected, identify the soutces of the information, frame questions to collect the information, plan field visit if needed, note the observation, readings, collect samples and make sketches, tables, graphs, which are related to the topics.

·                     Then students should know the does and don'ts, which are as follows;

DOs

1.            PW should be written on fullscap paper in student's own handwriting and own words(should not be directly copied),

2.            necessary illustration should be drawn or sketched with pencil

3.            And students can use simple colors

 DON'Ts

1.            However students are not allowed to decorate the project work and the cover page,

2.            Pictures cut from anywhere is not allowed and students should not use folders and folders to enclose the project work

·                     Finally we should know the lengths of the project work and it depends on the class. and the number of the words increases as the class increases.

Now the important thing in th project work is the assessing the project work and it can be done from the students start planning the project work and will end with assessment of the final project work and  for the assessment following criteria;

Content: relevant to the topic, accurate, presented in logical order, are illustrations appropriate, use of language, grammatical errors, has the required information been included, whether the writting is in students own writing and the correct summing up.

Presentation:neatness, whether the layoput according to the format, is the writing legible and the project work written within the prescribed word limit.

Process: Is proper planning done or not, whether the PW according to the plan, is the source of information authentic or not and whether the PW handed on time.