Project
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Problem-The description of the problem needs to articulate the pedagogical and educational dimensions of the problem. If you don’t, your project will be weak!
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Don’t use student engagement - it’s in everything. What are the deeper issues?
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Have a clear problem, and keep asking yourself why?
Project - Group Task
What is the central problem?
-doesn’t match (the problem is the staff who are not confident in maths? But only going to improve own practice.
- Too broad: Also, going to improve it with way too many vague theories)
- Data is incongruent - What is the correlation between Maori learners and girl learners?
- If the focus is on improving educational outcomes for all, how is that made my focusing on self practice?
- Scope is too scopey
-What ‘difference’ are they wanting to make to students learning? Who? How?
What are the educational components?
-We can’t easily tell. It should be made easy and clear for the reader.
-unclear because so many strategies have been identified and ‘all’ strands of Math are the ‘problem’
-Which test
-Which group/cohort are they focusing on? Schoolwide? If so, that's far too broad!
What are the pedagogical components?
-is it there an innovation or change that caused the change?
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Goals:
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Goals-be specific! Poor goals start with “I will explore...investigate...introduce etc…”
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What are the goals that emerge from your problems? Understanding the problem from an educational and pedagogical view is key to devising goals.
Artefacts:
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Artefacts-Support the aim of your project. What artefacts support you along the way? Eg: surveys etc, blogs, data, journals... They make up the deliverable. Tools and any other pieces of evidence.
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Go with what you know
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Level 9 of the project asks for new insights/evidence. How has this changed your practice?
Deliverables:
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What’s your polished thing you will present at the end?
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Could be a website,a Podcast, PLD Guide, Journal Article, Teaching and Learning Resource, ebook etc….
Purpose Statement:
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The overall description of your project.
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It has a population, a setting, and key pedagogical and educational purposes. Specific and succinct
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Eg: I will develop a teaching and learning resource for teachers on PBL with a heutagogical focus that will be implemented school wide in a Primary School.
