I teach in a secondary high school in Noto , It is a baroque style town, a world wide  known place; It is a tourist attraction for its palaces  and monuments. Indeed my school is hosted in an old jesuit monastery . 

I teach English as a secondary language and I am aso a coordinator of Erasmusplus project

So the project based learning is not new  for me.

however I am participating in this corurse to improve myself professionally , I think  this course offers the opportunity to learn more on this topic and to  share experiences with colleagues from other countries. This is  very fuitful 

BPL is a methodology which is students centered and helps them develop :
 Critical thinking

communication

Collaboration.

by watching the video it seems very feasable to apply this methodoogy to  any class, yet it is not so easy especially when the teachers work individually , or better they are not prepared and trained to team work, This is the situation in my real school. This means that this methodology is efficient when teachers together create a curriculum and all of them work to let students achieve objectives and competences which have to be presented and shared with the stuents too.

my students expect that the “good teacher”  is the one who tells them what to do, no choice , no debate. In fact another challenge is the lack of ideas, or if some of them have any idea, he/ she  refuses to express it because  of  lack of self-confidence,  fear of making mistakes, or because he/ she  fears to  sound fool. Finally when the activities are progressing well, The summative assessment 

 period arrives and I have to turn it into numbers/ scores. 

Of course I have got lots of  feed back and data to assess my students. Yet, my stydents themselves are the obstacle because  they believe that the traditional way of assessing : asking for facts, knowledge, is the most reliable way to be assessed