Week 12: The Implementation of Project Work

Cristian Alberto Menjívar Alemán

Week 12: Maximizing the Benefits of Project Work in Foreign Language Classrooms and Seven Essentials for Project-Based Learning

This week readings show important information about the benefits that project work provides to students. Project based learning is a teaching method in which students gain knowledge and respond to an authentic, engaging and complex question, problem or challenge.

Something I want to remember from this article is that when having students work in groups and giving them the opportunity to develop this type of projects is that it helps them increase their critical thinking, collaborative work, communication, which is really important so they can get to an agreement and reach the goal they have set up for the project.

Also, teachers should be aware to provide students with a topic that is attractive and appealing so they can succeed on the project.

The second article provides information about what every project needs in order to be good. There are two important criteria that must be taken into account and the first one is that students perceive the work as personally meaningful; in other words something that fits their needs or that is important for them. The second aspect is that a project needs to comply with an educational purpose. 

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