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Motivating students
through project work
Adam Stępiński
Motivating students through project work
A few words about myself …
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What do we need to bear in mind?
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Rule 1- Accept your students as they are
and make them believe in their potential.
Rule 2 - Show them the way to success.
Rule 3 - Make your students feel good and
safe during your classes.
Rule 4 - Negotiate solutions to occuring
problems.
Rule 5 - Ensure effective discipline and
responibility in the classroom.
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Try to make
your project different
from students’
school daily routine ☺
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Boosting students’
engagement
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Developing
learners’
autonomy
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Autonomous student
motivated 29%
responsible 19%
self-confident 16%
open-minded 13%
creative 7%
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Autonomous teacher
supporting 29%
flexible 23%
innovative 21%
enthusiastic 10%
reflective 8%
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• What does
learner’s
autonomy mean
for teachers?
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• What does it
mean for
students?
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- How can we
promote and
develop
student’s
autonomy in
our projects?
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• What can it be
limited by?
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Inter-
disciplinary projects
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●Unfinished
sentences
The big number of
learning areas /
school subjects in
an interdisciplinary
project will result
in ...
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sentences
An autonomous
environment will
lead to ...
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sentences
Forming specialised
teams (groups of
students) working
on specified fields
and acting as
experts in that
particular area will
benefit because ...
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sentences
If we link school /
subject matters with
ethic issues and
students’ everyday
experiences, this will
...
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sentences
Feeling the freedom
from the constraints
of the curriculum
will lead to ...
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sentences
When students face a
challenge and they
will successfully
cope with it, they
will ...
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sentences
A greater possibility of
modification of the
instructional
methodologies
incorporated in the
project (including
visual, auditory,
tactile and
kinesthetic) will
result in …
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New subjects/project
ideas in the future
school
Which would be
useful to learn
about?
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I would like to become
after graduation a
person...
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What sort of skills and competencies
do students want for themselves?
Are they really important?
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Structure
of an interdisciplinary
project
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Balancing between
the educational
and enteraining
dimensions of the
activity
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Use of media
resources
and attractive
means of
communication
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'Living Darfur' by
Mattafix http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQwCCm-H-sU
'Zombie' by
the Cranberries http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ejga4kJUts
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IRIN Films http://www.irinnews.org/filmtv.aspx
'Facing History and
Ourselves'
http://www.facinghistory.org/
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films.com/
www.missioneurope.eu
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Some e- tools
to motivate
students
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http://dfilm.com
http://voicethread.com
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http://edu.glogster.com
http://sunrise651.edu.glogster.com/wha
t-do-they-like/
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We need to
‘pump up’
students’
motivation all
the time ☺
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Ice breakers
from
the Modules
https://www.etwinning.
net/en/pub/collaborat
e/modules.htm
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My beloved ice
breakers
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Unfinished statements
Would you rather…or…
TV interview
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Some ideas for motivating projects
incorporating History, Social Studies
and Geography
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Russell Stannard
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Some clues to consider while working on
an interdisciplinary project:
● 1. when you decide on the topic, make sure that
the project will stimulate your students to act
creatively,
● What matters in your life?
● Two neighbours - one perspective.
● Together - in search of the future.
● European class. Can we learn new things from each other?
● Historia magistra vitae est. Can history be a teacher of life?
● Music, dance and fashion. Are you into them?
● World War II : Keep it a History.
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● 2. (in my opinion) it’s better when a project refers
to different subjects and fields of learning,
● 3. make sure that the topic, activities, ways of
communication are interesting for your students,
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● 4. while formulating the topic and deciding on the content:
● -try to make them simple and catchy,
● -try to refer them to your students’ life and experiences,
● -don’t concentrate too much on the educational aspects (the project should attract, not scary off)
● 5. give your students as much autonomy as possible,
● 6. your project should make a change (ways of work, ways of thinking, gaining new skills and abilities, establishing new relations),
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● 7. allow them to decide on the electronic
media and technology they would like to
use in the project,
● 8. make sure that the project will let your
students brainstorm ideas and discover
solutions by original thinking processes,
● 9. try to match all the things you do within
your project with students’ interests,
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● 10. vary activities balancing carefully between
the educational and the enjoyable ones,
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● 11. divide your work into smaller chunks
(stages),
● 12. try to follow some order: from specifics to
more general matters or the other way round,
● 13. try to incorporate songs, documentaries,
movies (the participants belong to ‘the media
generation’),
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● 14. let them use various computer applications (your students are also called ‘the Google generation’),
● 15. make sure that all the participants work on/create something together (not just add their materials),
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● 16. you can appoint your students as experts in
their national issues (social matters, history etc.) while your partners will have a similar role in case of the issues of their countries,
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● 17. evalute your activities (e.g. on a
special forum on the project site),
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● 18. make sure your students create
something of value,
● 19. inform parents about the project and
see how to involve them,
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● 20. mix pupils from partner schools in
pairs or in mixed groups to ensure that
each pupil has at least one partner,
● 21. integrate the project into the
curriculum by doing the work during
teaching hours so that it is a natural
contribution from pupils (and not
perceived as extra work).
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May your projects be motivational,
inspirational, engagiging,
creative
and funny! Thank you for your
attention☺ Adam Stepinski