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Project Based Learning & Community Involvement
Kagan and Associates
Mary Lyn Kagan
2008
Project Based Learning & Youth Development Concepts
• Works within Youth Development framework
• Provides mechanism for youth gaining skills and competencies
• Provides real world application to learning
• Builds their skills, engagesyouth, encourages positive relationships
• Provides a linkage between youth, school, families and community
Youth Development Practices
Supports & Opportunities
•Relationship building
•Practical support
•Youth participation - Input, decision making
•Leadership opportunities
•Skill building
•Community involvement
Your Role In Project-Based Learning
• You take on the role of facilitator, mediator, supporter, and mentor
• Assist with decision making process, don’t do it for them
• Supervise, assess, and evaluate youths’ development towards project’s goal and completion
• Encourage their “stretching” to grow
Components of Project Based Learning
Component Activity
What Choose Topic
Who Identify Team Members, Targeted Audience & Community Served
Where Location of Activities
How Develop Communication Plan, Brainstorm Assumptions, Risks, Constraints and Costs
When Develop Schedule/Timeline
Management Monitoring of team, communication, schedule, potential risks to project, etc.
Evaluation On-going assessment of project’s activities Final evaluation report
Component - What• Students identify their project topic.
– Generate a list of potential projects– Identify what subject or curriculum
requirements each potential project will meet; which one meets overall requirements best
– Which potential project will be the most meaningful to community, school, etc.
– Encourage students to think about how they can add something of themselves to the project
WHO - Identify Team Members
• What will the team be required to do?
• What opportunities will students have to make joint decisions?
• What should the team size be?
• How will each member be able to contribute to the group?
WHOStudents Identify Who
Targeted Audience Is– Discuss the purpose of
knowing who targeted audience is?
– How broadly or narrowly is this defined?
– How many people will be served?
– How much will the targeted audience already know about subject?
Students Identify Community To Serve– Will this be a project
benefiting the entire school?
– Will this be a project benefiting the parents or the immediate community?
– Will this reach Internet users?
WHERE
• Where will the project activities take place?
• Will most of the work take place at your site?
• Will surveys be needed?
• Will the project end with an event?
HOW
• Develop how communication will take place
• Brainstorm activities needed to have a successful project
• Identify any constraints, assumptions, and risks
• What costs may be realized?
WHEN
Develop your project timeline and proposed schedule:
• What will need to be done when
• What assumptions and constraints have been identified that may affect your timeline?
• How will this be monitored to make sure everyone stays on task or receives needed assistance to meet the proposed finish date?
MANAGEMENT
• Determine your method of managing participants’ projects
• Outline your management practices and their collective responsibilities towards these
• Discuss internal management of their projects and assist each group in determining their management practices.
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EVALUATION
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• What will be evaluated
• Your evaluation criteria
• Participants’ individual project criteria
• Reflection at end of projects
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Kagan and Associates
Mary Lyn Kagan
Owner/CEO
916-448-4118
Training – Project Management
Education/Nonprofit Consultant