The Philadelphia School Project Approach

Matthew Countryman, in this chapter, showed how the Black Power movement in Philadelphia was successfully able to challenge the Board of Education and bring about some changes in community schools. He also discussed how the violence that occurred in the late 1960s was not just a result of black radical activism but also the result of white support for institutional racism. Countryman provided pictorial and, most likely, scholarly evidence to back up his claim. The pictorial evidence he provided was a picture of high school students on their way to the Board of Education during the mass student protest that took place on the 17th of November 1967. He cited a lot of his sources and although I was unable to peruse his bibliography, I think, based on the level of detail in the chapter, that he must have had scholarly sources like newspapers reports (on page 232, he mentioned the Greater Philadelphia Magazine) and historical documents.

As a Middle School Coordinator at Roxby Downs Area School (RDAS) I have focused my research on creating an effective implementation plan to support RDAS with a pedagogical approach to project based learning (PBL) in the middle school years. This approach aims to better support students in their senior schooling. As the senior school currently aim to promote an adult learning environment which will incorporate project days, I have focused my direction on preparing students for this environment that will also assist in the development of 21st century learning. The implementation plan details the actions necessary to support the school in implementing and sustaining a PBL approach which serves as one of the key instructional methodologies to support the targeted middle school priorities identified in the school

The Course Project enables students to integrate and build onto course materials and discussions by doing a Diagnostic Paper (Option 1) of a significant change initiative or by writing a Research Paper (Option 2) that goes beyond what has been covered in the course.

In the Philadelphia region there are many community issues. One major issue is the closing of public schools. Many public schools have been closing down the past few years due to low funding. This issue has left many teachers jobless and many students without a permanent school. Since 2011 there hasn’t been enough funding for public schools in Philadelphia. Many people have the same question “Where is all the money going?” The answer to that question is pretty easy to see. Ever since the School Reform Commission refused to pass a budget in 2014 it has paved the way for less and less funding for public schools. It seems that the officials care more about having enough money for jails and prisons then a Philadelphian’s child education.

Some other ways that would be beneficial to enhancing learning would be visiting a museum, making models, constructing timelines, oral history interviews, site studies, and problem-solving exercises. Activities that include working in teams build confidence and teach children to work together. Ultimately, I believe, project-based learning provides an education superior to the traditional.

This will allow for feedback to be obtained by the teachers on how project-based learning and as well as obstacles teachers faced in the implementation of project-based learning. This serves two purposes, one to find out in which sites project-based learning was implemented and to what extent and secondly what factors were obstacles so they can be addressed.

This project gives students the idea of what it is like to be apart of the real world, it stresses you out, and makes you think to yourself ¨would it be okay if I just ate only leftovers?¨ This project is the Henry Ford project, it is a real life scenario where you are working for Henry Ford making $15 dollar an hour. What you have to do is buy all the necessities for living in today’s economy. But, it’s not just you, you also have a certain amount of kids that you also have to take care of, making the challenge a bit more rigorous.

My time spent at Parramatta Marist College as a casual Teacher has introduced me to Project and Problem Based Learning. My experience has made me familiar with this type of pedagogical practice as I observed and assisted students in their complex challenges. The culture of learning at Parramatta Marist focuses on knowledge attainment

is a project that is recommended to be performed by students to receive more and better

For projects as a mode of assessment means that the project will have to be either handed in personally during the physical session or they can be sent over to the instructor. By using the projects the instructor will be able to get the students perspectives in the learning process on the given assignment as such it is student-centered therefore the students will be motivated and active when doing their own research. The project on the downside can be costly for the students and also time consuming and requires a lot of labor while doing the research and in the end it becomes quite intimidating to the students. In addition it will require training on how to conduct the research on the instructor’s part.

It provides them an opportunity to implement what they have learned in class towards hands-on involvement and research. Within the project, there are teams dedicated to completing our design’s electrical, mechanical, structural and grow system aspects. Students are given an opportunity to work together simultaneously through the effort of promoting and fundraising for the student group.

In the field of educational research, the need for a clear communication between the project managers and its team members is fueled by the need to accurately measure the project ‘status’ and to be able to effectively control the deviations. A well-crafted communication strategy in this type of research’s is a prerequisite to developing an effective communication.

In this article the focus is on providing an environment where students can collaborate and solve real world problems. In the article they discuss how students should interact when solving real world problems. The focus is clearly on the tools needed to ensure that project based learning is successful in schools. This article is relevant to my topic as it give examples of ways students and teachers can be successful when engaged in project based learning.

For this article it is about the steps for a teacher to prepare a project they are about to give out to students they are about to do. For the first step the teacher need to identify the project and see if it will be effective to the students. If she picks any kind of project, that won’t help the student learn anything. The project must something about you are learning or about to learn. Then that’s when the teacher has to teach the lessons about the project or give them a more exciting way to learn it.

Projects based learning is designed to focus on the growth and development of the children across the learning areas. The children are allowed to explore and discover the subject of their choosing. They are allowed to use their cognitive skill to discover how thing change and how they are created. Children build their motor skills and their other skills as well. They are allowed to learn at their own pace and using their own learning style. The children also learn from each other through peer teaching, their build their language skills.