During all the GEP sessions, we have learnt how to design a PBL project taking into account concepts such as driving questions. I am really conscious of the importance of driving questions as a starting point to build a meaningful project.
My reflections after designing this project are that working with a person with whom you get along well is really important and, moreover, having time to work together in the same school is really valuable in a ZER. However, we have had many inconvenients: as a small ZER, we don't have many students of the same level in each school and this is challenging in terms of organization. Luckily, we have been able to do the final activities with children of the four schools in a ZER meeting. This fact was amazing because they are not used to participate in English activities that includes a lot of people of their level. They enjoyed a lot and realised that the four schools worked the same vocabulary, grammar structures... with a common goal: support our towns.
In terms of language, this year I have reinforced the idea of how important is to give them language support to improve their English skills. I have the feeling that, sometimes, we don't think about it because our daily life as teachers is too based on doing as many activities as we can. We can't forget that investing time in creating this language support will surely help them a lot in their future.