Pedagogical+Practices+-Meeting+Standards+in+a+Student-Centered+Classroom

As you thought about how to incorporate projects into your unit, you identified standards and Curriculum-Framing Questions to help frame your Unit Plan. You may have concerns about how you can effectively meet standards in a project-based, student-centered classroom where students construct much of their own knowledge rather than receive information and instruction only from the teacher. When moving to a student-centered classroom, students still need to do well on standardized tests and truly meet the learning objectives and standards. Other practical concerns that deal with accountability and time constraints must also be answered.

During this activity, you discuss your concerns and possible solutions for meeting standards in a student-centered classroom, as well as experience the use and creation of a wiki. A wiki is a “type of website that allows the visitors themselves to easily add, remove, and otherwise edit and change some available content… This ease of interaction and operation makes a wiki an effective tool for collaborative authoring.”