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| - KNOWLEDGE APPLICATION: students acquire the ability to make links across different areas of knowledge and to produce and develop ideas in order to apply them to a project task. | - KNOWLEDGE APPLICATION: students acquire the ability to make links across different areas of knowledge and to produce and develop ideas in order to apply them to a project task. | ||
| - | - COLLABORATION: students acquire collaborative skills by working in groups | + | - COLLABORATION: students acquire collaborative skills by working in groups: in this situation two or more people work in collaboration on a single task, where the result is common to all the members of the group and the members contribute to the result. |
| - | - COMMUNICATION: students acquire the skill to communicate by presenting their own ideas to specific audience | + | - COMMUNICATION: students acquire the skill to communicate by presenting their own ideas to specific audience. |
| - | - INDEPENDENT LEARNING: students can learn on their own and reflect on their learning | + | - INDEPENDENT LEARNING: students can learn on their own and reflect on their learning. |
| The way a good project is built generates a lot of advantages: as we all know, first of all it should start from a true problem and as a consequence the tasks should be authentic so the students can connect them to their own reality; that makes them more motivated because they feel school is no more an isolated spot but it is part of the real world they live in every day. | The way a good project is built generates a lot of advantages: as we all know, first of all it should start from a true problem and as a consequence the tasks should be authentic so the students can connect them to their own reality; that makes them more motivated because they feel school is no more an isolated spot but it is part of the real world they live in every day. | ||
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| In that case the school project has worked and has helped to create new awareness, more responsibility through freedom and cooperation, confidence in themselves and the excitement that follows these feelings of knowing and understanding more. | In that case the school project has worked and has helped to create new awareness, more responsibility through freedom and cooperation, confidence in themselves and the excitement that follows these feelings of knowing and understanding more. | ||
| An important trend in language teacher development in recent years has been a move away from the teacher as a passive recipient towards the idea of the teacher as an active creator of his/her own materials and classroom activities. I think that project work fosters a more self-directed approach on the part of the teachers, too. Besides being very motivating, project work enables teachers to acquire new knowledge and skills, to keep up with the pace of change and to increase their professionalism. | An important trend in language teacher development in recent years has been a move away from the teacher as a passive recipient towards the idea of the teacher as an active creator of his/her own materials and classroom activities. I think that project work fosters a more self-directed approach on the part of the teachers, too. Besides being very motivating, project work enables teachers to acquire new knowledge and skills, to keep up with the pace of change and to increase their professionalism. | ||
| - | As far as I am concerned, I had the chance to take part in a wide-ranging school project which gave me the opportunity to cooperate with Austrian teachers and also to teach Italian in the partner school abroad. This experience was challenging, as I had to handle a new situation in a class I did not know, but the good cooperation with the Austrian colleagues helped me to manage the requirements of the task. At the end it was a positive experience that enabled me to exchange ideas and learn a lot. | + | As far as I am concerned, I had the chance to take part in a wide-ranging school project which gave me the opportunity to cooperate with Austrian teachers and also to teach Italian in the partner school abroad. This experience was challenging, as I had to handle a new situation in a class I did not know, but the good cooperation with the Austrian colleagues helped me to manage the requirements of the task. At the end it was a positive experience that enabled me to exchange ideas and learn a lot. |
| + | A project based learning represents an innovation in teaching methods and it should be promoted among teachers so, first of all, a teacher should acquire ICT competences that are essential tools to interact with ‘real’ or ‘virtual’ collegues and share with them knowledge and ideas. | ||
| + | Then the teacher or teachers involved in a project work should not only be competent but also cooperative and highly motivated in order to be able to propose a project not only involving for the students but realistic and convincing for those who have to support it. | ||
| + | This kind of teaching-learning method requires from the teacher a great deal of energy and willingness but it can be highly satisfactory provided it is responding , first of all, to the students’ needs. | ||
