Monday, June 1, 2009

Collaborative Planning


One of the major goals for education in the 21st Century is to teach students how to work well in groups to solve difficult problems that require creative solutions. Project-based, experiential learning requires students to plan collaboratively, and to solve real problems in the real world. Project learning requires students demonstrate their understanding through performances and exhibitions, while developing their social, emotional, and academic intelligences. Collaborative planning requires students learn how to divide tasks, how to solve problems, how to react when they reach a dead end, and how to select the best solutions in moving forward.