Week 5

Project Base Learning -Web Quest and Rubrics

Dearest colleagues  I have been working hard these past weeks but I am learning a lot that is true. During this week I read the articles about Project-Base learning , the use of Rubrics and Alternative Assessment and there is no doubt that putting these aspects in practice  will help our students to become autonomous. In regard to this aspect I want to mention that they need to be aware of their responsibility in  the development   of the different activities on line  in order to succeed.       

The Project-Based Learning provides the students with the complex tasks based on challenging questions or problems in which they have investigated, reflected and came up with solutions, decisions and possible alternatives. All of this process has to be done by students themselves with the guidance of the teacher. The Assessment tasks gives the  students the chance to evaluate themselves and correct their mistakes. At the same time they are working in pairs or groups so little by little they become aware and confident about  their abilities and weaknesses and become stronger in their will to improve themselves.  

There are other ways of assessing oneself, using check lists and rubrics which is important to focus on how our students accomplish their assignments. Not forgetting as teachers we have to evaluate the whole process not just measuring their knowledge.

Rubrics is one of the keys for a student to perform well and to get to know exactly what they are going to be graded on so that they motivated to do their best in the different tasks that they are assigned.

Alex.