IAP: Integrated Applied Projects.
These projects have to be designed with the aim to implement and integrate previous knowledge. The main aim is not to build new knowledge but to integrate and apply the knowledge that students have built previously. The main objective is not to build new knowledge, but to integrate and apply knowledge that students already have.
These projects have to maintain a close relationship with the students' lives (personal, familial, social, ...)
These projects are a structural part of our curriculum, they are inside the ordinary curriculum, and are not an attached part of it.
These projects promote the integration of:
- Different resources: knowledge, skills, attitudes.
- Different resources of the same subject.
- Different resources of different subject (interdisciplinary)
These projects seek to teach how to handle complex situations. In this way they must offer an opportunity for the planning and self-evaluation of the work done by students.
Evaluation is a non detachable part of the curriculum; therefore IAP must provide tools for the evaluation of students’ competences.
Students explaining one of the projects