The document describes Project Think Approach (PTA), an instructional strategy that aims to undo silence and enhance communication skills. PTA uses projects to stimulate thinking and facilitate intelligent conversations outside students' comfort zones. It draws from proven practices like small talk, presentation skills, and life skill development. PTA aligns with constructivist and collaborative learning approaches. Students and stakeholders say PTA is more important than outcomes and helps gain skills and confidence. The document recommends using PTA to improve English and communication performance through engagement. It outlines an assessment timeline for PTA including pre-lab exposure, group work, presentations, and post-lab reflection.

1. PROJECT-THINK APPROACHTO UNDO
SILENCE AND ENHANCE COMMUNICATION SKILLS
Prajna Pani
Learning is not what we do with students, but what they do themselves
- Carl Rogers

2. CORPORATE
READINESS
LAB
PROJECT THINK APPROACH
Stimulus to undo silence
When thinking shifts, change happens
Not only the alternative pedagogy but the
best instructional strategy
Close alignment between PTA to
Communication and Corporate
Communication

3. LIMITATIONS
Difficult to attribute impacts to PTA
A question on the efficiency of mentors
and guides
Inattention to Individual performance
framework

4. What’s
unique
with
Project
Think
Approach ?
ADOPTS BEST PROVEN PRACTICES
Small Talk
Intelligent Conversation
Funnel Technique
Presentation
Life Skill Development Model

5. Literature
Review
The only
one
pedagogy
that fits all
P
T
A

6. LITERATURE
REVIEW
LITERATURE REVIEW
John Dewy
(1859-1952)
Projects bring conditions when pupils try resourcefulness, ability
to make right decisions and activity
Fried Booth
(1986:8)
EFL Context: Language tasks evolve from the project itself
Stoller (1997) Language and content learning
Dell Hymes
(1966)
Numan (1998)
Boyd &
Maloof(2000)
CLT- Grammatical & Social Knowledge about how and when to
use utterances appropriately
Develop learners’ communicative competence
Keep the students actively engaged in constructing & clarifying
meaning
Task Based
Learning
Use of authentic language and on asking questions to perform
meaningful tasks using target language

7. LITERATURE
REVIEW
LITERATURE REVIEW
Problem-
Based
Learning is initiated with a posed problem
Cooperative
Learning
Positive interdependence, face - to - face promotive interaction,
individual accountability, interpersonal and small - group skills
and group processing
Collaborative
Learning
Learning is a naturally social act in which the participants talk
among themselves (Gerlach, 1994).
Five phases: (Reid, Forrestal and Cook, 1989) Engagement,
Exploration, Transformation, Presentation, Reflection
Technology
Based Learning
CALL, TELL, ICT , CMC
Blogs, wikis, and social networking
Constructivism Learners actively engaged in meaning making (Brader-Araje and
Jones, 2002)

8. DISCUSSION
Develops thinking and communication
Breaks silence
Encourages intelligent conversations
outside the comfort zone
Unconscious learning in language and
communication takes place
 Students learn to be confident and
expressive

9. STUDENTS SAY: (80%) STAKEHOLDERS SAY:( 70%)
“Initiation and thought processes
are important”
“Approach is organization
communication”
“Approach will decide the outcome”
“Approach is in our hands, not the
outcome”
“Despite failure, one gains useful
experiences”
“Good way to gain skills and
confidence”
“With PTA, we get new things to
“Indeed, the PT Approach facilitates the
desired outcome”
“Feel good to found an opportunity to be a
part of the teaching and learning process”
“A good exercise for making the students
understand and apply the knowledge”
“Good and enjoyable experience while
guiding the project”
“Project outcomes must be used for a
change and bringing new ideas. So every
project must be analysed with a real time
situation”
APPROACH IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE OUTCOME (70%)

10. RECOMMENDATION
S
Improvement of the ratio of performers in
English and Communication Classes through
involvement, engagement & ‘talking cure’.

11. BLOOM’S REVISED LEARNING TAXONOMY
Remembering In the era of abundance, can the student remember or
recall information?
Understanding Does the student have the ability to explain ideas or
concepts?
Applying Can the students interpret the information or use the
information in a new way or different way?
Analysing Can the student’s probe to differentiate between the
different parts?
Evaluating Can the student justify a stand or decision?
Creating Can the student create a new product, idea or point of
view?

12. ASSESSMENT TIMELINE (Adapted from CRL Outline, CUTM )
PRE – LAB WORK Corporate Exposure (Faculty)
Workshop and Meetings - Project Think Approach and Communication
Induction Program for Students :Objective, Methodology, Objective of Choosing Project as a
Vehicle to Learn the Course, Process of Carrying out the Project
Pool of topics on general, local techno-management themes
Grouping
DURING PROJECT WORK Win your project
Team Formation
Timeline Preparation/ Project Plan Presentation
Review of Weekly Status Reports
Progress Presentation-I by Groups and Feedback
Review of Documentation File/Dossier, and Feedback
Progress Presentation-II and Submission of Dossier Containing Documentary Notes (E.g.,
compilation of weekly status reports, minutes, photocopies of emails, feedbacks, testimonials )
Final Presentation –III on the Project, Feedback
POST – LAB WORK Project Report Submission
Project Showcase

13. Reflection Stages:
One & Two
Storming & Norming
Discussions &
Brainstorming
Problems used as
Triggers
Process of Maturation
Adapted from Capacity Building Workshop for Dryland Management, May 3-5, 2000
LOGICAL FRAMEWORK ANALYSIS (LFA)
Visit to the construction site: cracks in the building

14. Reflection
Stage Three
Construct their
own reality
Develop the
outcome and
present their
findings
Working on minor project provide an opportunity to
tap the subconscious mind of each member of the
group, communicate, and exchange views and
opinions on the problems and design strategic
solutions.
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