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7. IMPLEMENTATION - TIME TO START
It is the time to implement your project, to start with your planning and to take into account each step to achieve towards your final product. -
1. DEFINE YOUR GOAL
What do you want to accomplish?
Specify your goal as much as possible.
Ask yourself and with your partners: why is it important?
Is it realistic? -
5. IDENTIFY THE STEPS AND SEQUENCE NEEDED TO ACHIEVE YOUR GOALS
5.1. Do a brainstorm, a list of ideas of all the steps and resources you need to accomplish your goals.
5.2. Estimate the time and resources you need to complete each step of your list.
5.3. Group them and sequence them. Think about the possibility of creating a starting outline to begin it sequencing. It could be done alone, each student, in pairs or group-working. -
3. CREATE A DEADLINE-DRIVEN TIMELINE
3.1. Commit your plan to paper and calendar by assigning specific due dates to each major goal and supporting steps. It is easy to create a calendar by working backwards.
3.1.1. When your goal should be completed? Write a date.
3.1.2. Which would be the last step to do before that date?
3.1.3. Put the steps in the reverse order.
3.1.4. You probably change the order many times before to finalize
the whole plan. -
6. SEEK SUPORT
6.1. Ask for some feedback from your classmates and from your teacher.
6.2. From the other hand, teacher could ask for some feedback from your GEP's comission at school and then from "Claustre" collegues. It is fantastic and really important to share with the other teachers.
6.3. Check to know if identified resources are available.
6.4. Backwards planning would give you and your partners confidence to, then, achieve your goals. -
2. THE TOPICS
After define your goal, you will have your topic.
You could group-work, work in pairs, individually, collaborative, cooperative... It will depends on the PROJECT. -
0. TEACHER MAKES A DRIVING QUESTION
Time for all students to think, to suggest ideas, to share them... -
3. WHAT RANGES OF KNOWLEDGE WILL BE INCLUDED?
In a primary project choosen by children, we believe it is important to include all range of knowledge (àmbit de coneixement). There is no learning subjects separately. -
8. TASKS AND LESSONS
Teacher has to include hours in the timetable for the students to do each project and to make it possible taking into account the sequence of it.
In these lessons, teacher should help pupils to achieve the project, step by step. -
9. FINAL PRODUCT
PBL's method is thought to have a final product.
What are students going to create?
Are they going to achieve what they designed in their minds at the beginning of all this project's process? -
10. ASSESSMENT
The assessment is basic in all the previous steps of this timeline.
At the end, it has to be reflection.
For us, the most important in a project is THE PROCESS, not the final product.
