CHAPTER 1 PROJECTS AND YOUNG CHILDREN
The projects approach
Chidren like to investigate and explore, they say that project work can cover all areas of curriculum and itegrate them.
However a deacade ago kindergartens were condisder good if just students ecnouraged play and socializationa and engagement wiht books. But not all the students didi it well. They found that 10% of the total prekindergarten through 12 grade public school had limited proficiency in English.
Project wok fit into our schools today ina worild where the use of technology is needed and help students in being successful. This is a new world that requires that our students develop the 21st century skills and they need to feel comfortable communicating electronically.
The project approach is started is not a new way to teach children, it started in London in the 1960s and 1970s , they found out that working with projects(or learning by doing) is very important in the process of learning.
The key feature of a project is to find answer to questions about topics posed either by children, or the teacher working with the children.
See Figure 1.2
They make a comparison between working by units, themes or topics and considered that these kind of methods are not focused on helping children to pose questions to be answered or take the initiative for investigations. Projects provide context in which children's curiosity can be expressed purposefully.
In the same way , they talk about " academic task" and "intellectual goals." Academic tasks are typically carefully structured, sequenced and descontextualized small bits of information and discrete skills that often require small groups or individual instruction by a knowledgeable adult. That would be wasteful for young children, for them is better to use the intellectual goals that address habits in their minds that include the disposition to make sense of experiences, theorize, analyze, hypothesize and synthesize, predict and check predictions , find things out and other advantages.
Projects can help students to develop social skills too. Children have the chance to engage their own learning by working together to solve problems.The children are called "young investigators", this concept refers to children toddler through age of 6 who are engaged in active investigation of a topic through the project approach, although they have not yet achieve verbal fluency or mastery of basic literacy skills.
Another potential benefit of the project approach is that parents become involved and interested in children's work, and that helps the children's success in school.
Project work can connect children with nature, outdoors learning is important, not only showing them videos or posters that don't have a big impact in children. For example watching an elephant in a computer screen doesn't show how really big it is, but children can se the elephant in a zoo to realize how big it is. They can draw it make a project about it.
Projects help to solve problems by generating questions and strategies to answer them.
They purpose a guide for working with projects. I has three phases. (projects by 3,4 and 5 years old children).
Phase 1 : Beginning the project.
Phase 2. Developing the project
Phase 3. Concluding the project.
See Figure 1.4 below
Chidren like to investigate and explore, they say that project work can cover all areas of curriculum and itegrate them.
However a deacade ago kindergartens were condisder good if just students ecnouraged play and socializationa and engagement wiht books. But not all the students didi it well. They found that 10% of the total prekindergarten through 12 grade public school had limited proficiency in English.
Project wok fit into our schools today ina worild where the use of technology is needed and help students in being successful. This is a new world that requires that our students develop the 21st century skills and they need to feel comfortable communicating electronically.
The project approach is started is not a new way to teach children, it started in London in the 1960s and 1970s , they found out that working with projects(or learning by doing) is very important in the process of learning.
The key feature of a project is to find answer to questions about topics posed either by children, or the teacher working with the children.
See Figure 1.2
They make a comparison between working by units, themes or topics and considered that these kind of methods are not focused on helping children to pose questions to be answered or take the initiative for investigations. Projects provide context in which children's curiosity can be expressed purposefully.
In the same way , they talk about " academic task" and "intellectual goals." Academic tasks are typically carefully structured, sequenced and descontextualized small bits of information and discrete skills that often require small groups or individual instruction by a knowledgeable adult. That would be wasteful for young children, for them is better to use the intellectual goals that address habits in their minds that include the disposition to make sense of experiences, theorize, analyze, hypothesize and synthesize, predict and check predictions , find things out and other advantages.
Projects can help students to develop social skills too. Children have the chance to engage their own learning by working together to solve problems.The children are called "young investigators", this concept refers to children toddler through age of 6 who are engaged in active investigation of a topic through the project approach, although they have not yet achieve verbal fluency or mastery of basic literacy skills.
Another potential benefit of the project approach is that parents become involved and interested in children's work, and that helps the children's success in school.
Project work can connect children with nature, outdoors learning is important, not only showing them videos or posters that don't have a big impact in children. For example watching an elephant in a computer screen doesn't show how really big it is, but children can se the elephant in a zoo to realize how big it is. They can draw it make a project about it.
Projects help to solve problems by generating questions and strategies to answer them.
They purpose a guide for working with projects. I has three phases. (projects by 3,4 and 5 years old children).
Phase 1 : Beginning the project.
Phase 2. Developing the project
Phase 3. Concluding the project.
See Figure 1.4 below
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