Student & Teacher Responsibilities

Student responsibilities are to:

• Strive for a product that exhibits depth and professional quality;
• Create a detailed, unique product that exhibits project findings and learning;
• Develop advanced understanding of the topic;
• Present ideas in a logical, detailed, and organized manner that support the topic;
• Create products that are appropriate for the audience;
• Incorporate and synthesize the research in the product;
• Discuss and debate conclusions;
• Develop written reports, procedures, and explanations that draw on the research base
• Include graphic, pictorial, oral, and dramatic presentations that are complex and thorough; and
• Use a variety of resources in developing the final product

Guiding Questions

1. How does the student communicate new understandings?

2. Does the product show evidence of new ideas, connections, and flexibility in thinking about a topic?

3. In what ways does the student’s work and research methods look like that of a professional?

4. How can the student transfer new knowledge to other contexts?

5. In what ways is the product relevant and meaningful to the student in his/her life? To the lives of others?