CEDu 521 - Week 1

Having gone through 2 years of education about education at Stritch, I have learned a lot about inquiry based learning and it's positive effects on students. I really enjoy giving students an opinion-based question, historical problem, or something of the like and letting them run with it. This means that I really enjoyed this weeks readings on project-based learning. I have only been teaching for one year and I tried this a couple of times. There were some good things and some bad things, but there is a lot of opportunity to grow and build it up into something much more grand. I plan to one day have a classroom where the students go from one project to the next and make it through almost all of American history - the fast moving one's anyway. For those that don't move as fast, they would hopefully still get more out of what they did do, but still be allowed to advance their learning and skills. The most important thing to understand about this is that it is not going to happen overnight - it is going to take years to develop, but it is years that I am looking forward to. I can't wait to talk more about this in class.