Give guidance and feedback to students' plans, encouraging, refining, and helping them to be responsible for their own learning. Maintain high expectations for completion of chosen options. Summarize by reviewing the whole, bringing students "full circle" to the experience with which the learning began.
Student/teacher evaluate projects using 3 plusses and a wish.
Objective: To have students look critically and constructively at their own work and the work of their classmates.
Activity: 3 Plusses and a Wish--ask each student to share their project with the class. The student presenter(s), other class members and teacher, will orally or in written form, evaluate the project using three positive statements and one wish concerning the project.
Assessment: Quality of student group contribution. Ability to critique work for substance and originality.