READING REFLECTION #10

     Its important during and after a project to set time aside to reflect over both how the whole project went and is going, as well as how the students are doing, both in groups and alone. Plan reflection questions you can ask students and yourself to better understand how the project went and get feed back to how the students felt about the project. Did they really learn anything from this topic or was it wasteful? What will you always remember about this project? These are a few questions that you can ask your students.

     Students need to reflect and elaborate on how a project went to understand what they are taking away from the experience, if anything. If a student can't come up with anything they will remember from this topic/project maybe it needs to be planned better on the teachers part or maybe the student really just didn't understand what was being learned. Reflecting on a topic/project at a mid-way point might be helpful as well to make sure students are taking away something from this experience.


     Many schools' identities are tied to their traditions. Some schools are known for having great sports teams or having something special happen over the years. In a community come up with ideas so that your class and school can establish a tradition and from an identity. When you have everyone working together this alone builds a foundation for tradition.


      Students have worked so hard towards this go and final project, celebrate this with them and everything they learned. Hold a party, put on an event, overall celebrate learning and build your school's identity as a place where kids get to learn through projects. This will only get the students even more excited for the next one and show the community what great classes and school you have.


   Building identity is important for furture classes and to have a better school overall, this goes back to getting the community involoed as well. reflecting is very important to understand what the students are taking away from this project and how this helped them to learn a topic. As well celebrate how far they came and how well they did, this is very important.