Transcript The Teaching Practice Project

Student Presentation
GC Foster College
November 19, 2009
Lorna Down PhD & Mairette Newman EdD
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What is the purpose of a teaching practice
project?
Is this a project?
Use a Project Checklist to help decide
Generate project ideas
Extend ideas by using online and local
resources
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To provide you with an opportunity to:
Apply the principle of teaching and
learning - learn by doing
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Learning through doing
Problem –solving
Critical thinking
Changing what needs to be changed
Knowing I can
L P C C C
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Consider Catherine Picasso’s ‘project’
◦ She asked her students to mark the track for Sports
Day
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Consider Cortel Molado’s ‘project’
◦ He asked his students to create a ‘riddim’ for a
peace song
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Consider Shane Howell’s ‘project’
◦ He asked his students to make a booklet with
names, pictures and achievements of sporting
heroes found in their parish.
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Addresses an issue or problem
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Is a series of connected activities or tasks
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Will improve students’ learning
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Is observable
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Involves research
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Will develop over time
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Encourages group work or collaboration
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Has been conceptualized by you the student-teacher with
input from your students
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Will be implemented by the students with assistance and
guidance from you the student-teacher
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Think about your subject area:
1. Why is this subject important?
2. What does it contribute to the students’ overall
development?
3. How does it contribute to the development of
Jamaica?
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Identify a problem or issue that
◦ is likely to engage your students
◦ is related to local, national or global needs or
events
◦ requires them to explore content and/or develop
skills that are linked to the curriculum
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Designing your project: http://www.pblonline.org/default.htm
PBL Online video library:
http://www.pbl-online.org/video/video.htm
Exemplary projects:
http://www.wested.org/pblnet/other_gp.html
Tinsel town project:
http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr203.shtml
The Opper Project: Using editorial cartoons to teach history
http://cartoons.osu.edu/?q=press/opper-project-usingeditorial-cartoons-teach-history
The global sun temperature project
http://www.educationworld.com/projects/archives/profiles/0
010.shtml Grades 4-8
How much water do you use?
http://www.k12science.org/curriculum/drainproj/instruction
s.html
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Biodiversity projects in the colleges
Collins- Figueroa, M. (Ed.)(2009). Learning in and
beyond the classroom: Biodiversity initiatives in
teacher education. Kingston: Joint Board of
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Teacher Education/Jamaica Environment Trust
Peace project
Down, L., & Morgan, K. (2005) Establishing
networks of cooperation for peace: Reflections on
the UNESCO/Mico/IOE Literature for Sustainable
Development Project. Institute of Education
Publication Series, 1, 84 -97
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