Student-Centered+Classrooms+Group+1

How do I ensure that students meet standards - and meet enough of them to make the effort worthwhile - in open-ended activities and projects?

 * === **Concerns** === || === **Solutions** === ||
 * # We won't hit every standard
 * 1) Time factor - there isn't enough time to incorporate standards based projects in the classroom.
 * 2) Planning time - a project must be designed carefully so that it does meet as many standards as possible, but too often projects are thrown together just for the sake of having a project.
 * 3) Low level students who don't have the ability to meet the standards || # Hit the most important ones first, then try to hit the less "tested" ones.
 * 4) Not a good one, but go for depth rather than breadth.
 * 5) Less bull$%^& on conference days - more time to plan project based projects - structured planning time.
 * 6) We don't have a solution - if we did we wouldn't be here. We hope intervention strategies at lower grade levels will start to filter up to us. ||