Designing an educational project means planning a process to achieve an educational goal, learning objectives. This implies from the selection of the problem arisen in a particular educational context, its treatment until its presentation of the report. Below we explain which are the stages you must follow:
- ANALYSIS OF THE EDUCATIONAL SITUATION
At this stage, students’ needs are analyzed taking into account opinions expressed by managers, teachers, and by the students themselves. The causes and consequences are defined and also identified if it can be solved.
- SELECTION AND DEFINITION OF THE PROBLEM
Some suggestions for selecting the problem are:
- Verify that the problem has a viable solution in the short term.
- Have the support of institutional authorities.
- Verify that the problem contributes to the progress of the institution, the group being served or a specific student population, such as students lagging behind in any subject.
- Check to make sure that the problem is well defined and that the topic is of common interest.
- DEFINITION OF THE PROJECT OBJECTIVES
Once the problem is raised, the general and specific objectives are defined. With them, you know where the project is heading and what you hope to achieve or achieve.
The objectives must:
- Be related to the problem to be solved.
- Be clear and concrete, as well as precise to establish a work guide.
- Be viable.
- Be measurable.
- PROJECT JUSTIFICATION
They are the reasons why it is considered necessary to implement the project.
It should describe:
The relevance of the problem and why it should be addressed:
- The utility it will bring to the educational community.
- The ease of implementation as well as its limitations.
- PLANNING OF ACTIONS
Designing the solution to an educational problem implies the planning of corrective actions. A work proposal or a sequence of activities is structured that allows separating the phases and tasks, defining the deadlines and who will carry them out.
- HUMAN, MATERIAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL RESOURCES
- Humans : Who participates in the project, their roles and functions.
- Materials : Resources to be used in the instrumentation of the project.
- Technological : Equipment necessary for the instrumentation of the project
- EVALUATION
A project is evaluated in different ways:
Evaluation of the process (or formative) : it refers to the fulfillment of the programming of each one of the activities, use of resources, fulfillment of the times, among others. The important thing to obtain a quality product is to ensure process evaluations from the beginning, so that the final weaknesses are few and the strengths predominate. Its purpose is to improve the product of each stage.
Evaluation of results : collects the main results or achievements related to the objectives and allows, based on the analysis of the data, to establish the fulfillment of said objectives. In some evaluative approaches, the unexpected effects are also considered, that is, all those results that are not directly related to the objectives set, but that are of interest to the project.
- DRAFTING THE PROJECT
The writing of the terminal project is delimited in the documents contained in the guide format.
- COMPONENTS OF A PROJECT
- What is to be done? Definition – identification – product
- Why? Rationale – purpose
- For what? Objective – end
- How much is going to be done? Goals – scope
- Where? Location – location – context
- How? Activities
- When? Schedule
- With what and with whom? Resources and responsibilities
- Under what conditions? Assumptions.
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