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Recommended Book

Managing Project Work in Schools:
Issues and Innovative Practices

Edited by Ho Boon Tiong, Jo-Ann Netto-Shek & Agnes Chang Shook Cheong

What constitutes a meaningful project in the classroom? How can you, as a teacher, enhance the learning experience of your students in project work? How can you coach them to do their projects effectively, and assess their projects fairly? This book addresses these pertinent questions in project work. It covers a range of issues, from the implementation and assessment of project work to the adoption of innovative strategies to transform project work into a meaningful learning experience for students. The individual chapters are written by researchers, educators and practitioners in project work. Their discussion is based on sound theoretical principles, and their suggestions are practical and sensible. If you are coaching students to do project work in the classroom, this book will serve as a useful guide for you.

A Word from the Reviewer

• I would like to congratulate the many writers who have contributed chapters to this book for their willingness to share the practices and strategies that they have found effective in managing project work...As an educator, I am an advocate of inter-disciplinary work. There is ample research basis to confirm that inter-disciplinary and problem-based project work is an effective pedagogical appraoch to develop thinking skills and collaborative skills in students...The ideas and strategies shared in this book, coming from both the researcher as well as the practitioner perspectives, would serve as a useful guide for teachers. Given the diversity of the topics covered, I am sure every teacher who picks up this book would be able to find some idea or suggestion that they can immediately transfer and apply in their own classrooms.

• Ms Tan Lay Choo, Deputy Director, Psychological Assessment and Research Branch, Education Programmes Division, Ministry of Education, Singapore