Differentiation of projects at the proposal stage has been an effective way to meet students where they are in their understanding of course material. Students will naturally select their own level of difficulty when proposing projects.

2005-06 Musical Instrument Project

2001-02 Teaching Elementary Math

My first assigned project. In these groups, I distributed the mathematical abilities throughout the groups which tended to have the math offloaded to one person in each group. Later on, I would allow students to join up on more ambitious projects but assessment would still be on shared goals, in this case, teaching mathematical concepts to elementary school students.

The initial outline of the project.