This document discusses using a project-based learning approach to deliver curriculum. It defines project-based learning as engaging students in investigating and responding to a complex question or challenge. Key benefits include developing students' independent, social, and employability skills. The document outlines components of the project approach including goals, activities, and roles for teachers and students. It provides examples of how the project approach can be used across subjects and sectors to deliver qualifications in an integrated, real-world manner.

1. Project Approach to Delivery
Delivering curriculum
by innovative and creative projects
They should be:
• industry-relevant to key sector requirements
• suit a broad range of learning styles and abilities
• meet the needs the modern world of work

2. What is it?
Project Approach to Delivery
• Project Based Learning is a teaching method in which students
gain knowledge and skills by investigating and responding to
a complex question, problem, or challenge
• A learner centred method of delivering teaching that engages
students in learning essential knowledge and skills.
• An opportunity for students to broaden learning and
employability skills through wider exploration and
consideration of a real-world project using carefully designed
tasks

3. Project Approach to Delivery
Why use it?
• develop independent and responsible students
• provides students with genuine evidence for employment
• develops personal skills and attributes
• enhances a student’s social skills, by interaction with the
social environment

4. Project Approach components
• A Problem
• A Goal
• Relevant and Realistic Activities
• Learner control
• Evaluation

5. • Teacher
Project Approach roles
– Facilitator
– Client
– Sounding board
– Mentor
• Student
– Set goals
– Query and research
– Project Management

6. Project Approach advantages
Opportunity to:
• learn skills relevant for employment
• use practical as well as academic skills
• control the project completion promoting a sense of
achievement
• seek interest in different sectors and subjects
• add variety to a program of study
• advertise the work of the individual

7. • Three Types of Project Approach
Project Approach to
development
– Holistic delivery of complete units within a qualification
– Cross sector delivery for achievement of common modules
– Employer led – vocational project, cross sector mapped to
certain but not all qualification learning outcomes.

8. Project Approach examples
• Cambridge Technicals in IT Project Approach
• UTC delivery of Computing and Creative
Media
• Silverstone, F1, JCB, IBM

9. Project Approach
Holistic Curriculum Delivery
• Delivering curriculum in a project approach gives a unique opportunity
to develop key employability skills such as:
- Communication
- Presentation
- Team work
- Engineering skills
• Teaching and Learning is enhanced through the development of skills
that can then be applied to assessment tasks
• Mapping to other curriculum areas in Maths, English, ICT and Science
will encourage learners to apply skills from these subjects in context:
- Preparing a written report for a professional audience
- Budgeting and financial control
- Application of mathematical and scientific concepts

10. An example of cross curricular
delivery through innovative and
creative projects
Cambridge National - Systems Control in Engineering
• Understand simple layouts, operation and applications of
microcontroller/ microprocessor in products or systems
• Develop a control system understanding the function of the
component parts of a control system i.e:
- Input devices Control device Output device
GCSE Computing - Computer systems and programming
• Understand standard programming techniques
• Be able to design a coded solution to a problem including the ability to:
-Develop suitable algorithms
-Design suitable input and output formats
-Identify suitable variables and structures
-Identify test procedures

11. Design a roving vehicle that detects
rocks, stops and alerts the controller
INPUT
CONTROL
PROCESS
OUTPUT
Sensors/Switches CPU, Program Motor/Buzzer/LED
Engineering Computing Engineering

12. Building a Lego robot to
explore
The basic function of
component parts of a
control system
Understand standard
programming techniques
Combined curriculum:
Engineering and Computing

13. The future
• New suite of Cambridge Technical qualifications
• Comprehensive resource development through
2014/15 for Cambridge Technicals including
Project Approach
• Employer / school engagement programmes
An opportunity to get involved by:
• Being part of the project approach programme
• Developing own resources that could link to Cambridge Qualifications
• Being an employer - school educator

14. Workshop Group Application
• Ideas
• Requirements
• Groups
• Timings