2. What skills/knowledge does a teacher need to possess
in order to do this project?
I think the key is to walk into it with the idea that you are going
to learn along with your students. And some of the teaching is going
to come from your students. Your role is to teach the students the
skills they need to learn about the topic area, and to communicate
what they have learned about the topic area, and to produce something
that proves to other people that they have learned about a specific
topic area. So as a teacher, those are things we are licensed to
do so we all know how to do that. So I guess the only skill we need
to do is be a good teacher. The rest is to be open enough to realize
that sometimes you don't have to be an expert in the area your students
are working in.
