SCHOOL-BASED LEARNING

Introduction

 

Curriculum Integration and Project-Based Learning are both strategies that link discrete subject areas and, in so doing, help students make connections in their minds among their strands of learning, and heighten the effectiveness of the teaching and learning in all areas addressed.

A driving force behind learning in both of these School-Based Strategies is the use of “essential questions.” Essential questions bring meaning and coherence to an integrated unit, reflecting what the students should know and be able to demonstrate by the end of the project. An essential question must not only be interesting to the students, but deepen their interest in the subject. Researcher and scholar Grant Wiggins says it should “generate multiple plausible answers, perspectives and research directions.”

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