21st+Century+Skills+-+Projects

Meeting: Tuesdays 1:30 Members: Nancy Ledbetter Susan Creasy Rob Fernley Erin Hankard

Goals: To become more familiar with the 21st Century Skills Project-based approaches and how they can be incorporated into the classroom and how they can help with literacy and communication skills.

4/4 We discussed Module 2 for 2 weeks - it was fairly lengthy and we wanted to discuss projects that we were working on or thinking about starting. It was great to brainstorm about our project ideas and Essential Questions with team members. Fernley is planning a "cross-country trip" to tie in Math and Social Studies and will even use Penzu for log-keeping. Creasy is piggybacking on that for a mini-version to tie in with the Watsons Go to Birmingham. She is also planning a mini graphing project for 3rd grade, using an idea from Module 2 - making our voices heard - by collecting relevant data. Nancy is helping both with ideas of how to incorporate technology into our projects, and sharing some of the projects that she is working on throughout the school, like the VoiceThreads Civil Rights project with 5th grade. 4/12 We discussed project assessment and timelines. Fernley shared a checklist and rubric he had made for his cross country project.