Optimal Levels! Project Book

Designed for any 'flavor' of Optimal Levels!, or any course that requires deeper understanding and presentation assistance!Optimal Levels! PROJECT BOOK provides students with a wide variety of project choices of differing levels. Some are writing intensive, some are drawing intensive, while others are purely 'thinking' intensive. All the projects are designed to help the students culminate their learning into class presentations that can be assessed peer-to-peer and/or by the teacher. Works very well with mixed classes and differentiated instruction too! Optimal Levels is an exciting new textbook series for English, ESL, and EFL classrooms. These textbooks have been designed to maximize student thinking and the construction of cognitive skills through the usage of the English language. This series is based upon the author's research in Mind, Brain, and Education at Harvard University and research in TEFL/TESL at the University of Birmingham. Rather than presenting to students what must be learned, this series proposes motivating themes and scaffolded tasks that are designed to build skills dynamically. By doing the theme-based student-centered tasks, students dynamically learn and understand language usage by creating the skills necessary to negotiate meaning and build upon what they already know. Highly motivational and highly effective!