1. Project Based LearningProject Based Learning
ELWIFDNI

2. Life Is
Project
Based
Learning

3. Mind Mapping
Guiding Questions:
 What is PBL?
 Why use PBL in an intervention
classroom?

4. PBL is NOT New
CARL ROGERS
1902 - 1987
JOHN DEWEY
1859-1952
BENJAMIN
BLOOM
1913-1999
SOCRATES
470-399 B.C.
JEROME
BRUNER
1915-CURRENT
LEV
VYGOTSKY
1896-1934
JEAN
PIAGET
1896-1980
SEYMOUR
PAPART

5. Learning:
an active process in which students
construct new ideas or concepts based
on their current knowledge.

6. Seven Elements of Project-
Based Learning
 Standards Based
 Assessment
 Student Centered
 Collaboration
 Real World Connection
 Extended Time Frame
 Multimedia

7. Another Way to Look at What is
PBL
 Content
 Conditions
 Activities
 Results

8. Content:
Compelling ideas
 Problems presented in their full complexity
 Students finding interdisciplinary
connections between ideas
 Students struggling with ambiguity,
complexity, and unpredictability
 Real-world questions that students care
about

9. Conditions:
Support student autonomy
 Students community of inquiry
 Coursework in a social context
 Students exhibit task- and time-management
behaviors
 Students direct their own work & learning
 Students simulate the professional work

10. Activities:
Investigative and engaging
 Students multi-faceted investigations over long
periods of time
 Students encountering obstacles, seeking
resources, and solving problems
 Students making their own connections among
ideas and acquiring new skills
 Students using authentic tools
 Students getting feedback from expert sources
and realistic assessment

11. Results
Real-world outcomes
 Students generating complex intellectual
products to demonstrate learning
 Students participate in assessment
 Students held accountable for competence
 Students exhibiting growth in real-world
competence

12. Traditional Instruction
Emphasizes
Project Based
Learning Emphasizes
Focus of
curriculum
•Depth of
understanding
•Comprehension of
concepts and principles
•Development
Focus of
curriculum
•Content coverage
•Knowledge of facts
•Learning "building-
block" skills in
isolation
•of complex problem-
solving skills

13. Traditional Instruction
Emphasizes
Project Based
Learning Emphasizes
Scope and sequence
•Follows student interest
•Large units composed of
complex problems or
issues
•Broad, interdisciplinary
focus
Scope and
sequence
•Follows fixed
curriculum
•Proceeds block by
block, unit by unit
•Narrow, discipline-
based focus

14. Teaching role
•Follows student interest
•Large units composed
of complex problems or
issues
•Broad, interdisciplinary
focus
Teaching role
•Follows fixed
curriculum
•Proceeds block by
block, unit by unit
•Narrow, discipline-
based focus
Traditional Instruction
Emphasizes
Project Based
Learning Emphasizes

15. Focus of
assessment
•Process and products
•Tangible
accomplishments
•Criterion performances
and gains over time
•Demonstration of
understanding
Focus of
assessment
•Products
•Test scores
•Comparisons with
others
•Reproduction of
information
Traditional Instruction
Emphasizes
Project Based
Learning Emphasizes

16. Materials of
instruction
•Direct or original
sources: printed
materials, interviews,
documents, and
others
•Data and materials
developed by students
Traditional Instruction
Emphasizes
Project Based
Learning Emphasizes
Materials of
instruction
•Texts, lectures and
presentations
•Teacher-developed
exercise sheets and
activities

17. Use of
technology
•Central, integral
•Directed by students
•Useful for enhancing
student presentations
or amplifying student
capabilities
Traditional Instruction
Emphasizes
Project Based
Learning Emphasizes
Use of technology
•Ancillary, peripheral
•Administered by
teachers
•Useful for enhancing
teachers' presentations

18. Classroom context
•Students working alone
•Students competing with
one another
•Students receiving
information from an
instructor
Classroom context
•Students working in
groups
•Students collaborating
with one another
•Students constructing,
contributing, and
synthesizing information
Traditional Instruction
Emphasizes
Project Based
Learning Emphasizes

19. Student role
•Carry out instructions
•Memorizer and repeater
of facts
•Students receive and
complete brief tasks
•Listen, behave, speak
only when spoken to
Student role
•Carry out self- directed
learning activities
•Discoverer, integrator,
and presenter of ideas
•Students define their own
tasks and work
independently for large
blocks of time
Traditional Instruction
Emphasizes
Project Based
Learning Emphasizes

20. Thank You