Reading Response #5

Introducing the idea of project based learning for a new project requires teachers consideration to get started.  This consideration includes the resources that will be needed as well as to plan the strategies to support effective time management, teaming and assessment.  Teachers’ management needs include a communication method to take place with the students, tools for marking and announcing milestones to be reached and looking into, and having available, the resources that will be needed by the students.  These resources may be new to students, so teachers should also a lot time to introduce unfamiliar items.  All in all, successful management of the teachers will result in the students learning management of their own.  Project management needs of the students includes methods for seeking assistance, ways to get and use feedback on their work through self-reflection, team input, and teacher advice, collaboration tools and tools to help manage their time.  This learned management of the students will be displayed by setting the end goals of their projects, and the steps that will need to be taken to reach them.  Relating to the management of students, teachers can incorporate technology applications.  This may include an online assessment for the students to complete to determine that the students did, in fact, take the management responsibilities of developing a plan to distribute their time and resources to successfully complete their project and meet their end goals.  This planning for the project to be done by teachers and students relates to our group project of tracking health habits in small groups by having the students work together to develop a plan for the week to obtain a healthy lifestyle as well as each student documenting, and communicating, their daily health data to their group to receive feedback.