The study guide offers educators an overview of the Project Approach and guides them through the process of developing and implementing a project in the classroom.

The Project Approach refers to a set of teaching strategies that enable teachers to guide students through in-depth studies of real-world topics. Projects have a complex but flexible framework …

a study guide (free of charge) that helps participants understand the definition and applications of the Project Approach—and walks them through the process of developing and implementing a …

Reading about—and seeing—project work in the classroom provides an excellent way to learn about or enhance one’s use of the Project Approach, a kind of project-based teaching and …

Below is an overview of how project work and explicit instruction work together in the classroom. For more information, see The Project Approach (Book One): Making Curriculum Come Alive.

Pre-K to Kindergarten Project Examples Explore the topics listed below for examples of projects designed for preschool-kindergarten. Click each project headline for an in-depth summary of …

Dr. Chard and Dr. Katz developed a group of international educators, known as the Project Approach Teacher Education Network (PATEN), discussed below, to help train future …

Special Topics Related to the Project Approach: The Project Approach and Self-Esteem A Sense of Purpose in the Classroom The Classroom as a Flexible Learning Environment

The Project Approach Study Guide, developed by Sylvia Chard, provides an overview of the Project Approach and guides for developing and implementing a project in the classroom.

In project work, however, the teacher looks at the students from a different perspective, seeing them in terms of what they can already do and how they might use, for their own purposes, the …