An Online Webinar

Engage your Students with Real World Projects 

I attended my first Webinar on March 12 , it was a new experience for me and I found it really helpful and beneficial . A lot of experienced teachers  were giving their opinions and I was able to communicate with people whose positions are high . This webinar provides teachers with insights that have to do with organizing real-world projects .  First you have to find project-worthy ideas and you must connect learning activities to events that interest your students . The problem that you are working on must be accessible , actionable , big enough to matter and small enough to tackle . Second when you are approaching real-world projects , you must make your students aware of  three things : Awareness , Advocacy & Action . Awareness : Learners must understand a certain issue and they should raise other’s awareness. Advocacy : students are given the chance to give a voice for those who are voiceless that means that they must speak out for people who don’t have voice or they could propose solutions  and finally Action : they put their solutions into action. They gave us an example in which specific learners were working on a pollution program . Third The duration of your project should not be short , it should be long enough to the project cycle .Fourth You can test the project with your colleagues before assigning it and finally you can assess students progress by getting feedback from learners and you can ask them what are their plans for the next day and by observing them you can tell whether they are on the right track . When you design real-world project for your students you are making their learning more authentic and more meaningful and they will become more motivated and more interested plus they would be able to propose solutions for things that no one had ever proposed before . Your students will feel they are making a difference.