Project Based Education
The right project can motivate anyone to excel.
Learning with responsibility - Responsibility is motivation.
By Captain Bob Webb
- Youth Motivation Concepts Overview
This website is designed to help people who are in
conflict with classroom environments. These people could excel if placed in
a project based education system. Leaders whose ideas changed the way we live, from
developers of the light bulb to the computer, were in conflict with
classroom environments. They acquired professional skills with projects. Academics
was acquired as needed and to the level needed to achieve their goals.- 1917 Grade School Textbooks
The curriculum assumed students would not finish high school. For
this reason, farm management and engineering skills were taught in grade
school. Today's young people have to attend college for specialized
learning opportunity.
Discover!
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Develop Your Natural Talent
Motivation is education.
Education without motivation kills ambition, the primary ingredient
for a productive lifestyle.
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When a person discovers their natural talent,
they are like a fast moving freight train, there is no stopping them. They
will find a way to develop their talent, with or without support from
society.
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Lectures provide knowledge. Hands-on projects builds confidence.
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"Give a person an idea and you enrich their life. Teach a person how to learn
and they can enrich their own life" - Author Unknown
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- Measurable Skills and Learning Environments
High school funding and teachers salaries are now based on
measurable output in classroom environments. This means the system has
abandon the development of skills that cannot be measured. These
abandon skills are the foundation to motivation and productivity. --- There is a table that list the
ignored skills, skills that are vital for a productive personality.-
Project Based Education
An alternative to academic base education
Classroom environments require students to take an
interest in instructors programs. In high school, there is little opportunity for
students' interest to be recognized or be developed. As a result, students,
whose interest are out of harmony with the classroom take no interest in what
instructors are trying to do. CONFLICT! Students then
GIVE UP, are labeled failures and
are considered social outcasts. Project Based Education can
offer alternatives that redirect rebellious attitudes into productive
skills.
- Our Learning Personality
,Explanation of term.
- Each of us has a physical personality that is different
from everyone else, we also have a learning personality that is different
from everyone else. Our learning personality is the combination of natural
talent, social environment, character, personal interest, motivation,
current opportunity, and how the brain processes information. Everyone
could find a productive lifestyle if they could find a learning process
with opportunity that matches their learning personality. Also includes
a chart on "Perceived
Intelligence in Different Social Environments."
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- Project Based Education
- The concept is based on what interest and motivates the student. Because the
instructor cannot customize lesson plans for each student, he must
implement student responsibility. It becomes the student's responsibility to develop and research
projects and develop a plan of action. The instructor acts as a coach or
facilitator. Instructors take an interest in students' projects instead of
students having to take an interest in topics handed down by administrators.
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- Projects and The Self-Educated Man
- When faced with a challenge, man has the power to learn without instructor.
This is how Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford and thousands of
other highly successful people became educated.
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- Tools of People Who Love to Learn
- People who love to learn do not
depend on classrooms for knowledge; they develop a learning style
that is in harmony with their learning personality. They develop
learning tools that works for them. Learning by doing leads to above
average opportunity and wages.
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Following are some options for people who are in
conflict with classroom environments.
- Learning Without Instructors Self-Education
- It is possible for man to educate himself without
help or support from others. In fact, when we learn the art of
self-education (learning how to learn versus how to be taught) we
will find, if not create, opportunity to find success beyond our
wildest dreams.
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- Natural Learning Environments
- We all start life with a love to learn, we are curious, we will take risk
and try everything, we have no fear. We have a natural desire to explore,
discover and learn about life. There are no barriers in the world of young
adventures. This is nature’s way to motivate us to learn.
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Education first then opportunity? or
Opportunity first then education?
Some people can learn without knowing the reason why, for them,
education first then opportunity. Classrooms are examples of education first.
Technical skills are acquired as needed.
Some people need to know why before anything sticks. For them,
opportunity first followed by training. Apprentice programs are
examples of opportunity first. Academics are acquired as needed.
- Opportunity First versus Academics
First
- People, whose ideas changed the way we live have always been in conflict with
classroom environments. Innovators are not "A" students, they do not
accept the classroom formula for success. They learn with projects, which
require opportunity first.
Note: A high percentage of today's skilled craftsmen did not qualify for entrance
into technical schools or formal apprentice programs, because of the academic requirement, so they
started as helpers. For them it was opportunity first. More
information.
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Teenagers Dilemma
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Visionary Students versus Non-Visionary
Students
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Desire to Excel
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Products of Our Education System
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- Teenagers Dilemma
- Thomas Edison's short stay in the classroom was a
disaster. His mother pulled him out and gave him a workshop so he could
develop his natural talent at his own pace; she was not concerned about academics.
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- The At-Risk Student may be a Genius
- Today, pressure is on all students to stay in school no matter how
strong the failure label becomes. Students being told they are a
failure five times a day, five days a week, will develop low
self-esteem that will do more harm than a diploma will do good.
Self-fulfilling prophecy will seal their fate. Dropouts that become
achievers, will spend ten to fifteen years of persistent effort to
overcome their negative self-esteem. Most adults can't escape negative
self-esteem because they accepted the failure label that was placed on
them as teenagers.
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- Barriers to Motivation
- Parents that build barriers compared to parents that remove barriers.
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- At-risk Students Who Find Success How & Why?
- There is a small percentage of at-risk teenagers who fall through the
education system cracks, dropout and succeed, some becoming self-made
millionaires. To rise above the crowd requires the ability to acquire and
process knowledge. Successful people, who were labeled at-risk by the
education system, use projects to develop
valuable skills.
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- How to Make Dreams Come True... My Story
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We must have a dream that motivates us. No one has ever
achieved anything without a dream attached to a burning
desire. We must learn how-to-learn. In school, we learn
how to memorize, and be taught. Learning how to learn frees
our dependency on others for knowledge. We must learn
from failure and learn how to bounce back from failure.
No one ever succeed without failure. In the classroom,
failure is a no-no.
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- Starting a Career at the Bottom
The blue-collar world offers high paying careers for high school
dropouts - $40,000 to $70,000- Employee Wealth and Workplace Leadership
Employee wealth is not based on education level; it is based on the
leadership style they work under.-
A dysfunctional education system produces
dysfunctional teenagers.
Society expects teenagers to adapt to a
one-system-for-all no matter how dysfunctional the system may be. A flexible
system can create opportunity for various learning
personalities, thereby, motivating them to excel.
Nationally, 30% of teenagers drop out of high school.
Some high schools have a 70% dropout rate. In South Carolina, there is
a 40% dropout rate. An increasing number of teenagers are rejecting
the system. To stop the outflow, the system must adapt to the interest
and needs of teenagers, instead of pressuring them to adapt to the
system. When the curriculum inspires, teenagers will accept and learn.
- Case for Education Reform
- A one system for all is not feasible.
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- Teaching Young Students to be Failures
- Every teenager wants to be an achiever and be somebody. For many, the
classroom environment labels them failures. No one likes to be labeled a
failure, so these teenagers join street gangs where they are considered
heroes among their peers. They become achievers in criminal activity.
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- What is Education?
- What can be considered a quality education? A quality education is
custom designed that address the unique abilities of each student. Custom
education evaluates natural talent and how student learns'. This is why home schooled students out perform classroom
students. Parents learn what works and does not work, then focus on what
works. With this method, students develop a
love to learn and learning becomes a lifelong process.
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- Education Reform is Needed for the 21st
Century
- Our high schools are designed to prepare students for college, not
the world most will enter.
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- Drugging Students to Accept the Status Quo
- Society is now drugging our youth with behavior
control pills, nulling the skill that makes them creative. They learn to accept
the status quo. This new generation may make a comfortable living,
but they will have lost the ability to be an innovator. Soon, America will have a generation of people who can
earn "A's" in the classroom, but have no vision in the
real world.
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Notes:
 | Dependency kills motivation. Long term dependency on parents, the
government or others, takes away the ambition to become self-reliance.
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| When you discover your natural talent, barriers to motivation and
learning will evaporate. |
| Customize education to the teenager's
learning personality, a love to learn will emerge that will last a lifetime.
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| Super achievers learned how to learn in natural learning environments. They are
processors
of knowledge that is based on a burning desire that motivates them. The
typical classroom is a collector of knowledge with limited motivation.
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| Why do some high school dropouts become self-made millionaires? Do
they hold the secret to a success personality? Consider that their skills were
NOT molded by classroom environments. Society says these people should never
have found success. What do these self-made millionaires have that many highly
educated people don’t have? Why doesn't the education system learn and adapt
the secrets of these people. Answer,
social prejudice in the formal education system. Education leaders want to believe their
system is the only way. |
| Just because a student gets "Fs" in every class does not mean they
don't want to learn or excel, THEY DO! EVERY TEENAGER DOES! They need a
different learning environment other than classrooms. Not everyone can learn
in passive classroom environments. |
Additional Information
The information at this website is based on my experiences and resources
that agree with my experiences. I welcome any comments you
may have.
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