Collaborative+Projects

= Collaborative Projects = [|Handpicked Collaborative Projects] - put together by Rocky Jensen

Criteria for Quality Projects    All projects included in this site have been critiqued using the following guidelines, developed by [|Judi Harris]: **Assessment:** Is student assessment, process, skills, and product, authentic?
 * Curriculum:** Is the project relevant to both students’ lives and the NZ Curriculum?
 * Goals and Expectations:** Have the goals and expectations of the project been clearly defined?
 * Thinking Skills:** Does the project promote higher level cognitive skill, such as reasoning, analysis, problem- solving and reflection? Does it promote creative or divergent thinking?
 * Individual Accountability:** Is there individual accountability to the extent where students come away feeling that they contributed to a valuable part of the project?
 * Challenge:** Is the project challenging yet within each student’s range of abilities? 
 * Feasibility:** How ‘user-friendly’ is the project? Is it simple to enrol in? Are support materials  available ? Is there a cost attached? Is it current?

 Effective Pedagogies

Tools and strategies
|| ===Making Connections=== || ===Create a supportive learning environment===

Personalising learning
|| ===Encourage reflective thought and action=== || ===Enhance the relevance of new learning=== || ===Facilitate shared learning=== || ===Creating opportunities to learn=== || ===Community involvement=== ||
 * ===Collaborative Projects === || Voices of the world ||  ||   ||   || Collaborative short story project ||   ||   ||