Teach Middle East Magazine September 2014 Issue 1 Vol. 2 | Page 25

TOP 10 REASONS EVERY TEACHER
SHOULD TRY PROJECT-BASED LEARNING
By Aziza Benlamoudi

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hen I was first introduced
to project work I was very
much passionate about
a project called “Make
Peace”. In that project, I instructed
my students to create posters, write
creative biographies about Nobel Prize
winners, and talk about their dreams
giving a speech similar to Martin Luther
Kings’ famous speech. Yet, when
the big day came, I couldn’t see any
creative work. Instead, it was obvious
that my students Googled information,
copied and pasted them to their papers
then recited them to the audience. I
realized that students learned nothing
and my first project was a total failure!
Yet, like any rational teacher, I decided
to reflect on t