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For some time ago, I started a personal process to find strategies and methods to help me in my process of learning a new language.

After that, I had found so many options, new tools and a lot of strategies that I started to adopt based on my capacities and my requirements in my personal English learning process.

However, at the same time, I thought as a future teacher, a question came to my mind, more than that, a new challenge I should accept in my work as a teacher...

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HOW TO ENGAGED THE STUDENTS WITH THE ENGLISH?

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HOW TO ENGAGED THE STUDENTS WITH THE ENGLISH?

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That's why I chose the theme presented by Dr. Joann (Jodi) Crandall, and especially because she get focus in the teaching-learning process with teenagers.

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Active – Curious – Creative - Risk Takers - Fun

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“Education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself.”  John Dewey

Projects bring “life itself” into the classroom, and provide motivating opportunities for learning.

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Projects provide an active, interactive, and creative way for teenagers to use their language and express themselves. They engage learners in multi-sensory experiences that contextualize both content and language. Projects provide concrete examples of what they have been learning in other classes or experiencing in their lives, and they can share these projects with others (their class, their friends and families, their school, or even other schools in other countries). Projects also can help teenagers develop the 21st century skills of communication, collaboration, creativity, and critical thinking and problem solving and also develop as global citizens.

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Project-based learning is a dynamic classroom approach in which students actively explore real-world problems and challenges and acquire a deeper knowledge. PBL presents opportunities for deeper learning in-context and for the development of important skills tied to college and career readiness.

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What makes projects so engaging? Learners get to:

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What makes projects so engaging? Learners get to:

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• Use their imagination: think of themselves in different places, roles, jobs.

• Invent things and solve problems.

• Create things: brochures, videos, advertisements, comic strips.

• Do their own research and demonstrate what they have learned.

• Write and talk about themselves, their challenges and interests.

• Share their ideas and work with peers.

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Benefits of Projects for Language Learning

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Benefits of Projects for Language Learning

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• Build on previous language activities.

• Require authentic use of English.

• Integrate skills (Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing).

• Connect classroom with the wider world.

Bring the world into the classroom.

Take learners outside the classroom to the world.

• Make learning meaningful and purposeful.

• Challenge learners to use English in new ways.

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Project Based Learning: Why, How, and Examples