My daughter is experiencing this in 11th grade history at her very expensive private school.
The teacher basically assigns group projects and then the kids present the projects.
He rarely lectures.
It’s horrible for my daughter. She has a brain injury, and she does terrible with group projects because of communication problems. The other kids basically do her part of the project which is unfair to all the kids involved.
She’s not learning anything.
She does great in traditional classes with a book, lectures, and worksheets. In those classes, she gets high As.
She is barely passing in the history class.
Next year, I will pull her from the school if it happens again.
Thank goodness, her other teachers are good.
This is very interesting. What about the other kids? Are they learning with this approach?
(If you are doing a project every couple days, chop chop chop, I could see where a student might learn quite a bit, just by being kept busy. But if a so-called project is for weeks or months, then what you have is a lot of busy work. In that case a student can get an A, but when you try to pin down what the student actually learned, it might be very little.)