Return-Path: <nifl-fobasics@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.9.0.Beta5/8.9.0.Beta5/980425bjb) with SMTP id LAA22143; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 11:05:15 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 11:05:15 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <l03102800b30460210f60@[209.178.104.158]> Errors-To: lmann@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-fobasics@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-fobasics@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-fobasics@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: Susan Gaer <sgaer@earthlink.net> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-fobasics@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-FOBASICS:14] Re: Project-based instruction X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Status: OR <Susan Gaer, you instituted project-based instruction at Santa Ana College, which you described as having a structured curriculum and set standards. Could you tell us more about how you "sold" the idea to administration, and how you made sure that your students would meet the set standards?> I did not have to sell the idea to the administration, I had to write a course outline that explained itself. The course outline includes curriculum, textbooks and evaluation strategies. I completed this. The next step was to get the college to approve and they did. I guess I wrote a good course outline. The mini projects that I use with my beginning ESL classes incorporate the textbook as the basis for the language and the projects are outcomes. Students learn about the family and then they write a story about the family. Each mini project is developed along with each curricular strand. Students are encouraged to do all the projects but generally only do the ones that interest them. They take a pretest and post test to measure improvement. My students most always show large gains in proficency. The teacher who has my class in the following semester says that my students are much more verbal and articulate than most of the other students who come from other classes. -- --------- Susan Gaer Santa Ana College Rancho Santiago College District (714)564-5016 Fax (714)434-7920 sgaer@earthlink.net
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