Post on 02-Jul-2015
description
Delivering curriculum by innovative and creative projects
Project Approach to Delivery
They should be:• industry-relevant to key sector requirements• suit a broad range of learning styles and abilities• meet the needs the modern world of work
What is it?• Project Based Learning is a teaching method in which students
gain knowledge and skills by investigating and responding to a complex question, problem, or challenge
• A learner centred method of delivering teaching that engages students in learning essential knowledge and skills.
• An opportunity for students to broaden learning and employability skills through wider exploration and consideration of a real-world project using carefully designed tasks
Project Approach to Delivery
• develop independent and responsible students
• provides students with genuine evidence for employment
• develops personal skills and attributes
• enhances a student’s social skills, by interaction with the social environment
Project Approach to Delivery
Why use it?
Project Approach components
• A Problem
• A Goal
• Relevant and Realistic Activities
• Learner control
• Evaluation
• Teacher
– Facilitator
– Client
– Sounding board
– Mentor
• Student
– Set goals
– Query and research
– Project Management
Project Approach roles
Opportunity to:
• learn skills relevant for employment
• use practical as well as academic skills
• control the project completion promoting a sense of achievement
• seek interest in different sectors and subjects
• add variety to a program of study
• advertise the work of the individual
Project Approach advantages
• Three Types of Project Approach
– Holistic delivery of complete units within a qualification
– Cross sector delivery for achievement of common modules
– Employer led – vocational project, cross sector mapped to certain but not all qualification learning outcomes.
Project Approach to development
• Cambridge Technicals in IT Project Approach
• UTC delivery of Computing and Creative Media
• Silverstone, F1, JCB, IBM
Project Approach examples
• Delivering curriculum in a project approach gives a unique opportunity to develop key employability skills such as:- Communication- Presentation- Team work - Engineering skills
• Teaching and Learning is enhanced through the development of skills that can then be applied to assessment tasks
• Mapping to other curriculum areas in Maths, English, ICT and Science will encourage learners to apply skills from these subjects in context:- Preparing a written report for a professional audience- Budgeting and financial control- Application of mathematical and scientific concepts
Project Approach Holistic Curriculum Delivery
Cambridge National - Systems Control in Engineering
• Understand simple layouts, operation and applications of microcontroller/ microprocessor in products or systems
• Develop a control system understanding the function of the component parts of a control system i.e:- Input devices Control device Output device
An example of cross curricular delivery through innovative and creative projects
GCSE Computing - Computer systems and programming
• Understand standard programming techniques• Be able to design a coded solution to a problem including the ability to:
-Develop suitable algorithms-Design suitable input and output formats-Identify suitable variables and structures-Identify test procedures
Design a roving vehicle that detects rocks, stops and alerts the controller
INPUTCONTROL PROCESS
OUTPUT
Sensors/Switches CPU, Program Motor/Buzzer/LED
Engineering Computing Engineering
Building a Lego robot to exploreThe basic function of component parts of a control system
Understand standard programming techniques
Combined curriculum: Engineering and Computing
The future
• New suite of Cambridge Technical qualifications
• Comprehensive resource development through 2014/15 for Cambridge Technicals including Project Approach
• Employer / school engagement programmes
• Being part of the project approach programme
• Developing own resources that could link to Cambridge Qualifications
• Being an employer - school educator
An opportunity to get involved by:
Workshop Group Application
• Ideas
• Requirements
• Groups
• Timings