Negotiated+Learning

=Negotiated Learning= A continuum exists for Negotiated Learning. At one end of the continuum is restricted student choice (say, the option of doing a project on the Kangaroo, Echidna or Platypus) to the other end of the continuum which allows for much more student-directed learning, where students negotiate aspects of their learning path based upon their interests and passions. Somewhere in the middle students can design their own learning experiences, to meet pre-determined outcomes (say, students designing their own experiments to show an understanding of scientific method). At the "highly negotiated" end of the continuum, students would develop project proposals that are negotiated with their teacher in reference to their Personal Learning Plan before they begin work. Negotiation occurs around the rigour of the project, whether the project is pitched at a level suitable for the student’s knowledge and skills, and the duration of the project. The projects could be about building or making something, learning a new skill, finding out about something or carrying out a scientific investigatio n. Negotiated Learning is not unstructured, it must be carefully structured to support the student in becoming more self-directed. Negotiated Learning Rubric (developed by Sharon Houlden) The project based learning continuum Negotiating curriculum in the middle years (Nadine Crane and Kath Murdoch) The six As of designing projects Guidelines students follow when designing their research projects at NetSchool Template students complete when desiging their individual projects at Golden Square SC

media type="custom" key="2096421"Project Based Learning Overview, with Seymour Papert Team Learning Video, Landry Middle School, LA http://www.edutopia.org/node/2959 //(Project-based learning example using hurricane crisis mock situation).// Project Based Learning Video, Aviation High School, Seattle http://www.edutopia.org/engineering-success //(Project-based learning example using Engineering as the Transdisciplinary context for the learning of science and maths).// “Begin with the end”, Project Based Learning video, Marin School of the Arts and Technology High School, Novato, California http://www.edutopia.org/node/2968 //(Project-based learning example of monitoring a watershed near the school).//
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