When a classroom is divided into teams which are expected to engage
in a team project, the following events might occur.
Teachers might take on a role within the groups in their classroom. Taking
a role in student projects allows teachers to guide and mentor learning
while being in a position where they can assess and provide feedback to
their achievements and decisions in a context relative to their projects.
A teacher in a role situation could be where teachers act as:
- an editor or publisher who must critique writing and
layout work
- a client who must be cautious about the product they might buy
- a project builder or engineer who must be concerned about
design decisions
- an environmental assessment agent
As a collaborative team, learners:
- identify a concept or product and proceed to explain in a proposal
the design problems and hypothetical solutions.
- Create a design brief
- use a design or other critical process to plan and develop their design
project. Keeping detailed records of their process and their decisions,
learners can brainstorm, investigate, and deduce consequences for a variety
of potential design strategies solutions, recycling this activity until
they have exhausted all possible design solutions
Having settled on design strategies to support a potential design solution,
the team identifies:
- ways in which they can investigate and/or execute their project;
- primary and collaborative functions for each team member;
- potential themes for their design(s);
- applications they plan to use and the teams' proficiency to use these
tools;
- and the knowledge, skills, and values they hope to gain and/or exemplify
through this project.
Team Members:
- keep a detailed record, engage in the physical execution of their project
- brainstorm on the alternative modes of presentation available that
could most effectively promote the success of their design
- present their design project to their teacher and peers, and using
proper terminology and meaningful reasoning and evidence, defend their
design decisions
- engage in individual reflections on the intent, progress, effect, successes
and/or failings of their project
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