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.
Refine and edit projects.
Objective: Enhance student ability to analyze their own plans for: 1) limits (is the scope too big or too small?) 2) details (have they been specific enough?) 3) originality (is this their own?) 4) relevance (does it tell something about the unit under study?) 5) usefulness (what will they learn?)
Activity: Students post their plan analysis or tell the class their plan analysis or write the analysis for the teacher's approval. It is extremely helpful for all the class to hear the teacher's suggestions for improving personalization activities.
Assessment: Analysis of plan, work habits, research methods.