Day 11

Project Strategy

Project strategy is defined as any activities be it individual or group, which involves investigation and solutions of the question under the teacher's guidance.

  Features:

1. It extends beyound classroom teaching.
2. Involves investigation and problem solving.
3. Carried out in real life situations.
4. Effective interaction between students and the social environment
5. Teacher acts as a guide.
6. Creates opportunities to acquire social skills.

Principles:

1. Principle of utility:  where it attempts to study and investigate a practical problem/situation.
2. Principle of readiness: where teacher gives task to the students  and students have the opportunity to choose the purpose.
3. Principle of learning: by doing learners come to direct contact with the learning situation, acquiring the knowledge  and experience throught the practical experience.
4. Principle of freedom: at work where teacher acts as a facilitator and students are given freedom to learn.
5. Principle of socialization: which helps the learners to come in direct contact with the social environment making them to be able to live and adjust in their social environment.

Types

1. Produce type
2. consumer type
3.  Investigation type
4.  and the Drill type.

 And under the Investigation type there are three stage and they are as follows

Stage one: Classroom planning
It inculdes the providing and selection of problems for study and followed by formulation of hypotheses and the planing methods.

Stage two: Execution
It includes collection, organisation and interpreting of data followed by the review.

Stage three: conclusion
It includes reporting and evaluation.


And in order to plan a project work

• Firstly we have to select the topics keeping in account the syllabus content, class level and availability resources.
• Secondly Students should be given to choose.
• Thirdly Students should know the format for the project work write up which includes the title, table of contents, introduction, method, conclusion, acknowledgement and the references.
• Fourthly Students should know how to collect the information.
• Then students should know:

Do's

1. Project work should be written in students' own handwriting and their own words(should not be directly copied).
2. Necessary illustration should be drawn pencil.
3. And students should simple colours.

 Don'ts

1. However students are prohibited from decorating the project work and the cover page.
2. Pictures cut from anywhere is not allowed.

Now for assessing the project work it is done from the time students start planning the project work and will end with assessment of the final project work and  for the assessment following criteria:

Content
Presentation
Process