Question 4) Should the school design process be used as a real-world, project-based teaching and learning strategy?
Project Based Service Learning is the most powerful methodology to effectively teach students, and architectural design projects based on real-world applications is the gold standard of Project Based Learning. Students are directly involved in a process that has immediate relevance to them. Architecture projects connected to students provide rich opportunities to achieve competence across a wide array of subject areas. Authentic student participation in the school design process is a physical civic legacy, a positive touchstone for the students to refer back to as they become adults, to say, "I did that"!
By committing, then, to the connection of the design process directly to teachers and students via Project Based Learning, architects provide a unique, powerful, and highly marketable value-added component in their relationship with the school.
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