A Certificate will be issued to participants on the successful completion of the course. Successful completion involves:

• Participation in discussion with classmates and the instructor
  This is assessed through consideration of your level of contribution to the Blog.
• Final Project
  This is assessed by the instructor, either online or in hard copy.

Due Dates: As online participants, you set your own due date.
Submission: Email your final assignment URL to:
Alternative kinds of submission are negotiable, hard copy, DVD, etc.

A Note on Assessment

1. Contribution to discussion on the course Blog.

Postings you make to the group are automatically made available to the other members of the online course. You should aim to make a first posting as soon as possible. Formality is not required, however it is a good idea to keep contributions reasonably short (say 100-300 words) and user-friendly. Don't post essays. I will be monitoring the quality and frequency of contributions to the group: I will be looking at the degree of understanding of the issue being discussed and the take up of points made by other contributors.

2. Term Paper

A paper will be written giving an account of your project. This will be received in a flexible format which will allow for possible later publication (voluntary) on the Project-Approach website.

Assessment in this course will be through a paper on a project carried out in a school classroom or early childhood (preschool/Kindergarten) centre. It is anticipated that the project will take different forms according to school context and the age of students with whom the teacher is working. Weekly class sessions will provide opportunities for formative evaluation of the project work in progress and specific feedback will be given by email to each class participant.

Reading instructions will be given by the instructor for each module. These references, the Project Approach Web Site and the course texts (Engaging Children's Minds and the two Project Approach books published by Scholastic) will provide common reference points for the class participants, the course Blog discussion and the final paper.

Each course participant may also have different concerns in relation to his/her own classroom setting. Accordingly different emphases may be taken in the writing of term papers. The project description will be considered for publication on the Project Approach Internet Website, URL (internet address): http://www.projectapproach.org.

Formal feedback on the results of your work will be given at the end of the course by the instructor. This will be in addition to the formative feedback you will be receiving throughout the course.