Project Based Learning Part One

I decided to spend a whole week doing a Business English project with my students.I decided to follow a project based approach.The first stage was the problem:

Stage One: The student lounge needs to be updated and redesigned but the school doesn't know what to do with the space.As a group you need to create a proposal based on your own research and suggestions about what you would do with the space.


Stage Two: The students brainstormed the strengths and weaknesses of the current student lounge firstly as individuals then in a group brainstorm..some of the students started to suggest changes and ideas during this stage.The group identified the most important areas they would focus on an decided to create some questions to ask fellow students in other classes.

Stage Three: The groups wrote survey questions together and then approached different classes to ask the questions.Once the results had been collected the students decided how to organise the data and the relevance of it compared to their own suggestions.We then looked at how to write a report based around a summary which was started in class and completed for homework.