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The Project Approach
Presented By:
Diana Perez,
Jennifer Strasheim,
Valerie Anaya,
Evelina Arciga- Gonzalez,
Maria Rico,
& Sue Won
(Schwenhart,1997)
(Brown and Campione 1996).
1) Ms. Carlson’s second grade class, Ms. Wright’s kindergarten class, Ms. King’s preschool class
2) Ms. Rathkey’s first grade class
produce high quality work and grow as collaborators and individuals
“Children had continuous opportunities to learn and grow in all developmental domains as they meaningfully engaged in the project they had helped shape”
(Alfonso, 2017).
Some examples of projects that have been completed by children in Preschool - Kindergarten include:
The Dog Project, Lunch Project, A Study of Bones, Project Katrina, School Bus Project, Bug Project, and Talking Puppets Project (Chard, 2014).
-Project-based approach naturally leads to differentiated learning.
- There are practices that teachers can use to help different learning styles.
1. Differentiating through grouping allowing teachers
to focus more on the groups that need extra support.
2. Allowing students to work in teams or individually.
3. Allowing children to have a “voice and choice” which
means being able to show their learning in variety of ways.
4. Assessing children in different ways as long as it is
aligned with standards.
- Students choose a topic they are interested in, determine how to do it, and how long to work on it.
- The investigations conducted can be led by an individual child, a small group or a large group of children and involve different curriculum areas and different skills for children.
- Teacher plays a major role in planning and guiding the learning.
Project approach currently does not have set strategies to support accommodations for students with disabilities
Strategies to use in the classroom:
Resources:
Starting with their Strengths Using the Project Approach in Early Childhood Special Education” by the authors Deborah C Lickey and Denise J Powers.
Article: “The Project Approach: A strategy for Inclusive Classrooms” by the author Helene Arbouet Harte.
Resource: Assistive Technology Can Benefit All Students. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.edutopia.org/blog/assistive-technology-can-benefit-all-students-jenny-grabiec
Classroom: A Teacher’s First Attempt With Project-Based Learning. NAEYC.
https://www.naeyc.org/resources/pubs/yc/mar2017/project-approach-inclusive-classroom
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/differentiated-instruction-strategies-pbl-andrew-miller
Project-Based Learning Without Leaving the Standards Behind.”
Early Childhood Education Journal 36 (4): 339–46.
comparison study through age 23. Early Childhood Research Quarterly,
12(2), 117-143. doi:10.1016/s0885-2006(97)90009-0