Supplementary Materials for Module 12

Article: “Classroom Management in Project Work”

https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation?paperid=61240 (20 minutes reading)

This article focuses on the project work method and the teacher’s leader role in a lower secondary school. The article argues that education and training in school should enable and encourage pupils to use their curiosity and ask questions they want answers to, and in this way create a lifelong learning process when their formal schooling has come to an end. This leads to the project work method, which starts with a research question or problem formulation. The intention is that such a work form will increase pupil motivation and learning. The purpose of this article is to show how the project-work method may provide teaching that is varied, practical, relevant and challenging. Moreover, another aim is to highlight the teacher’s role as the leader of pupil learning in project work. The article is based on a qualitative case study where the empirical findings have been analysed according to Dewey’s and Vygotsky’s theories and to theories on classroom management.

Design Thinking: the LAUCH Model

Design Thinking is a flexible framework for getting the most out of the creative process. It is used in the arts, in engineering, in the corporate world, and in social and civic spaces. You can use it in every subject with every age group. Although there are many models for design thinking, the Infographics Video shows the student-friendly “LAUNCH Cycle” method and how it works.

VIDEO – Hackathon for students explained by a student