2. Agenda
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Deconstructing REAL Projects (10 mins.)
Table Group Breakout Sessions (30 mins.)
Closing the Loop (10 mins.)

3. REALearning Experience
What are some words that come to
mind when you think of a meaningful
learning experience you’ve had?

4. Deconstructing REAL Projects

5. What does it mean to design a
REAL Project?
Rigorous
Engaging
Authentic
Learning

6. Rigorous-students demonstrate
depth of knowledge
Rigorous - rigorous in design
● they are tuned by other teachers and refined
● they are tried out by the teacher first
● students are assessed for:
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their content learning
the quality of the process
their skills development as well as the final product

7. Engaging
Engaging
Insisting that what students do in school has
purpose, and will be exhibited to an
audience
Subject content is relevant, connected, and
useful to the task in hand
The essential question and the product drive
student learning
Enables the use of technologies, locations,
expertise and practical methods to achieve
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8. Authentic
Authentic
Projects, driving questions, and products
must have validity in the real world, not just
‘for the sake of it’ in school
Students take on the role of a professional in
the real world
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9. Learning-Students are making links
between content and skills
Learning
● Learning through REAL Projects, not
Teaching through REAL Projects.
● Learning is driven primarily by the essential
question and the creation of a product,
● REAL Projects are not about teachers
making links between areas of teaching, but
about students being allowed to make links
between areas of learning.

10. The NAT Project Example
Project link

11. What is the difference between
doing a project and REAL Projects?
A project is done at the end of
a unit. It requires little to no
knowledge from the
unit to complete the project.
Ex: Students study a
civilization and make an
artifact from that civilization at
the end.
In PBL, the project is
introduced on the first day of
a unit. All of the learning
within the unit is essential to
complete the final project.
Ex: students create their own
civilization after studying the
key elements of a civilization
and looking at examples
through history

12. Table Groups
Find a table, you will get to go to three tables
total for 8 minutes at each table.
1. Shifting from projects to REAL ProjectsStephen
2. Coaching the REAL Projects Team- Sarah
3. _________- Goole
4. _________- Cara
5. _________- John

13. Closing the Loop
Pair/Share and discuss these two questions:
1. What struck you about what you heard in
today’s session?
2. What are your take-aways from the session?

14. Contact Information
For more about REAL Projects:
Kim.Schilling@Innovationunit.org