This document provides an overview of project-based learning (PBL). It defines PBL as curriculum that is fueled by standards and asks essential questions that students investigate. The key aspects of PBL are that it allows students to explore real-world problems through hands-on experiences and abstract intellectual tasks. The document outlines the basic process of PBL, including asking an essential question, planning activities, creating a schedule, monitoring progress, assessing learning, and evaluating the project. It encourages teachers to design engaging PBL questions and provides examples of potential projects for students.
Using Blogs as a Tool to Develop Students' Writing and Critical Thinking SkillsUCL
Slides from UCL Arena Exchange Seminar, 14 Jan 2015
Critical thinking and being able to express this in written form is a crucial skill for students in evaluating ideas, applying concepts to real-life situations and solving problems. As a deep approach to learning it is inherently difficult to teach.
This seminar will present an approach that enables students to develop their writing and critical thinking skills using blogs as a tool. This is based on experiences from the module ‘Buildings Organisations Networks’(BON) in the MSc Spatial Design: Architecture and Cities at the Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment at UCL, where blogs formed an integral part of the teaching and learning experience as well as the assessment.
The seminar will give a brief overview of the approach and then focus on a round table discussion to share questions, views, perspectives and ideas to apply this approach to different teaching practices and settings.
Integrating Technology into Problem Based Learning - Presented at the 2010 North Carolina Technology In Education Society Annual Conference in Raleigh, NC.
Re-inventing Project Based Learning in the 21st centuryAmmar A. ElMerhbi
This is a presentation of PBL workshop for k12 teachers. The sessions starts with teachers's views of PBL, the backgroudn experience of PBL, shows them the difference between project based learnign and project oreinted learning, engages teachers in analyzing the success factors of a good pbl lesson via video, then they are presented with elements of pbl that need to be in place. Teachers then were engaged in activity to plan an interdisciplinary pbl lesson.
Using Blogs as a Tool to Develop Students' Writing and Critical Thinking SkillsUCL
Slides from UCL Arena Exchange Seminar, 14 Jan 2015
Critical thinking and being able to express this in written form is a crucial skill for students in evaluating ideas, applying concepts to real-life situations and solving problems. As a deep approach to learning it is inherently difficult to teach.
This seminar will present an approach that enables students to develop their writing and critical thinking skills using blogs as a tool. This is based on experiences from the module ‘Buildings Organisations Networks’(BON) in the MSc Spatial Design: Architecture and Cities at the Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment at UCL, where blogs formed an integral part of the teaching and learning experience as well as the assessment.
The seminar will give a brief overview of the approach and then focus on a round table discussion to share questions, views, perspectives and ideas to apply this approach to different teaching practices and settings.
Integrating Technology into Problem Based Learning - Presented at the 2010 North Carolina Technology In Education Society Annual Conference in Raleigh, NC.
Re-inventing Project Based Learning in the 21st centuryAmmar A. ElMerhbi
This is a presentation of PBL workshop for k12 teachers. The sessions starts with teachers's views of PBL, the backgroudn experience of PBL, shows them the difference between project based learnign and project oreinted learning, engages teachers in analyzing the success factors of a good pbl lesson via video, then they are presented with elements of pbl that need to be in place. Teachers then were engaged in activity to plan an interdisciplinary pbl lesson.
I modified a presentation I found on Edutopia with my original guidelines, procedures and pics.
I will be sharing this via Elluminate with teachers in Alabama who are part of the 21st Century Teaching and Learning project funded by a grant from Microsoft.
Project based learning approach a real expereinceRajeev Ranjan
“Project Based Learning; a Real Learning Experience” ” is an integrated learning approach. A project is meaningful if it fulfils two criteria. First, students must perceive it as personally meaningful, as a task that matters and that they want to do well. Second, a meaningful project fulfils an educational purpose. Well-designed and well-implemented PBL------------ -----------------
PBL for WL is not done in quite the same as it is done in other subject areas, but it is nevertheless, a phenomonal opportunity to give students more access to their own interests in conncection with the languguages and cultures we bring to our students!
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
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Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
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The French Revolution, which began in 1789, was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France. It marked the decline of absolute monarchies, the rise of secular and democratic republics, and the eventual rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. This revolutionary period is crucial in understanding the transition from feudalism to modernity in Europe.
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3. Creating schools for the 21st Century requires less
time looking in the rearview mirror and more vision
anticipating the road ahead.
Teaching has been an activity undertaken behind
closed doors between moderately consenting
participants.
Technology enables students, teachers, and
administrators to reach out beyond the school building.
Innovative classrooms are not defined by fixed places
but by their spirit of curiosity and collaboration among
students, teachers, and others in a true learning
community.
Excerpts from Edutopia
6. What is Project-Based Learning?
PBL is curriculum fueled and standards based.
PBL asks a question or poses a problem that
ALL students can answer. Concrete, hands-on
experiences come together during project-
based learning.
PBL allows students to investigate issues and
topics in real-world problems.
PBL fosters abstract, intellectual tasks to
explore complex issues.
7. How Does Project-Based Learning Work?
Question
Plan
Schedule
Monitor
Assess
Evaluate
8. Question
Start with the Essential question.
Take a real-world topic and begin
an in-depth investigation.
Make sure it is relevant for your
students.
9. Plan
Plan which content standards will be
addressed while answering the
question.
Involve students in the questioning,
planning, and project-building process.
Teacher and students brainstorm
activities that support the inquiry.
10. Schedule
Teacher and students design a
timeline for project components.
Set benchmarks.
Keep it simple and age-appropriate.
12. Assess
Make the assessment authentic.
Know authentic assessment will
require more time and effort from
the teacher.
Vary the type of assessment used.
13. Evaluate
Take time to reflect, individually
and as a group.
Share feelings and experiences.
Discuss what worked well.
Discuss what needs change.
Share ideas that will lead to new
inquiries, thus new projects.
15. Read “More Fun Than a Barrel of ... Worms?!”
Read “Geometry in the Real World: Students
as Architects”
Read “March of the Monarchs”
Discuss which of the projects you just read
about ‘grabbed’ your attention. Why?
What ideas do you have for a project? What
question will you ask your students?
Activities
16. Record your ideas.
Record questions that will
launch project-based learning.
Choose one of your questions.
Brainstorm with your colleagues.
Create a concept map.
What content standards will be
addressed? What subjects can
be woven into the process?
Activities
Project-based learning is truly learning in action. It engages students so that they are no longer passive receptacles of information, but active pursuers of knowledge.
For many of us, our memories of school are of desks neatly arranged in rows.
The teachers were standing at the front of the room.
They were lecturing, writing on the chalkboard, or assigning written work for us -- the students -- to complete.
Students were passive learners, receptacles of the knowledge imparted to them by their teachers.
When today’s students leave the confines of the classroom, they must be prepared for an information-based society. The old school model of the Industrial Age is no longer valid.
Today’s workplace needs people who can solve problems, collaborate, and communicate well with others. No one knows what the future will bring. Our children need to have “mental flexibility.”
Alvin Tofler wrote that the greatest skill in the next century will be the ability to learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Lee Shulman, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, has observed, “Teaching has been an activity undertaken behind closed doors between moderately consenting participants.” Technology enables students, teachers, and administrators to reach out beyond the school building. It brings to the students access to sources of knowledge and experts, be it first person accounts to movies of the Civil War found on the Library of Congress’ “American Memory” collection to online chats with astronauts from NASA.
Project-based learning and technology bring a new relevance to the learning at hand.
By using technology and bringing real-life context to the curriculum, students are encouraged to become independent workers, critical thinkers, and life-long learners.
Teachers can communicate with administrators, exchange ideas with other teachers, and communicate with parents, all the while breaking down invisible barriers created by the isolation of the classroom.
Innovative classrooms break down the walls of boredom and apathy. They engage and motivate students to take an active part in their learning. Students become collaborative members of the teaching, sharing, and learning process.
Twelve Healthy Cultural Norms [Saphier and King: Educators]:
1. collegiality
2. experimentation
3. high expectations
4. trust and confidence
5. tangible support
6. reaching out to the knowledge bases
7. appreciation and recognition
8. caring celebration and humor
9. involvement in decision making
10. protection of what’s important
11. traditions
12. honest, open communications
It is by utilizing all of these qualities within a school’s culture that the capacity to improve the school is dramatically affected.
Educators need to discover and then provide conditions in the school and the classroom under which people’s learning curves go off the chart.
In his book, Learning By Heart, Roland S. Barth writes:
“A school-based reformer ... works very hard to maintain one set of books by asking, “What is it that I believe constitutes a good education for these youngsters? And how am I going to enlist resources to change this school so that we can provide that education.’”
With project-based learning, students work individually and in groups. They are constructors of knowledge. Children become collaborators building understanding.
As educators, we need to address the content standards that are required for our students. We must always keep in mind these standards when designing a lesson.
We must ask ourselves what types of activities support the standards because the content standards provide the foundation of knowledge to build upon.
Too often in the past, the lesson was direct instruction with the teacher delivering the content via lecture. With project-based learning the inquiry process lends itself to collaborative projects.
With project-based learning the teacher or the students pose a guiding question:
What happens at night?
What do nocturnal animals do while we’re sleeping?
What is cystic fibrosis and how is it caused? [This was a question asked by second graders who had a classmate born with cystic fibrosis.]
What would happen if our class formed a business with a real product and started selling stock?
What does a high school look like in the year 2050? [This was a question posed by Eeva Reeder to her high school geometry students.]
Field trips, experiments, model building, posters, and the creation of multimedia presentations are all viable activities within project-based learning.
By creating bridges between subjects, students view knowledge holistically, rather than looking at isolated facts.
Project-based learning promotes understanding, which is true knowledge. Students explore, make judgments, interpret, and synthesize information in meaningful ways.
Project-based learning, as with all lessons, requires much preparation and planning.
When designing the project and the student question that will launch the project, it is essential that you have in mind exactly which content standards will be addressed.
Once these standards are in mind, then devise a plan that will integrate as many subjects as possible and appropriate into the project. Have in mind what materials and resources will be accessible to the students to assist them.
Next, what time allotment will be given to the project? Will this project be conducted during the entire school day or during dedicated blocks of time? How many days will be devoted to the project?
Students will need to be given direction for managing their time, a definite life skill.
Finally, have a means for assessing your students’ completion of the project. Did the students master the content? Were they able to apply their new knowledge and skills?
The question that launches your project-based learning lesson must be one that engages the students. It will pose a problem or a situation that the students can tackle knowing that there is no ONE answer or solution.
The question that launches your project-based learning lesson must be engaging to the students.
It is greater than the task at hand. It will pose a problem or a situation that the students can tackle knowing that there is no ONE answer or solution.
Base your question on a situation or topic that is authentic. What is happening in your classroom? In your community?
Make it a one that students can feel that they are making an impact by answering the question or solving the problem.
The question should be a “NOW” question -- a question that has meaning for the students in their lives at this moment in time.
Project-based learning, as with all lessons, requires much preparation and planning.
When designing the project and the student question that will launch the project, have in mind exactly which content standards will be addressed through your inquiry and project development.
Students feel ownership of the project when they have an active role in the decision making for the activities.
Devise a plan that will integrate as many subjects as possible and appropriate into the project. Have in mind what materials and resources will be accessible to the students to assist them.
For a sample of concept mapping software, visit the Inspiration Web site at www.inspiration.com.
What time allotment will be given to the project? Will this project be conducted during the entire school day or during dedicated blocks of time? How many days will be devoted to the project?
Give students direction for managing their time. Teach them how to schedule their tasks. Remind them of the timeline. Help them to set deadlines.
The “big question” acts as the catalyst. Initiate projects that will let all students meet with success. Allow students to go in new directions, but guide them. Help them stay on course: the path to knowledge.
Teach the students how to work collaboratively. Designate fluid roles for group members. Have students chose their primary roles but assume responsibility and inter-activity for all group roles. Provide resources. Provide guidance.
Create team rubrics:
Team rubrics state the expectations of each team member. Watch the group dynamics. How well are the members participating? How engaged are they in the process?
Create project rubrics:
What is required for project completion? What is the final product: a word-processed document? A multimedia presentation? An oral report? A poster? A combination of products? What does a good report/multimedia presentation/poster/product look like? Make the requirements clear to the students so that all can meet with success.
The scoring of traditional testing, such as true-false or multiple choice, is much easier and less time consuming than the scoring of authentic assessment.
These tests only show the estimated knowledge of the student once you factor in the element of the student’s guessing at answers.
Types of authentic assessment are:
Constructed-response items: a student has to state the answer to a problem. These tests often can allow more than one answer letting all students have a chance to demonstrate their new knowledge.
Essays: students are asked to analyze and synthesize their new knowledge and then write about it.
Performance tasks: students are asked to perform a task that will demonstrate the application of the new knowledge.
Exhibitions and demonstrations: these projects can be done individually or within a group and demonstrate the application of the new knowledge.
Portfolios: students keep a collection of work that best demonstrates the understanding and application of the new knowledge.
Classroom presentations and oral discussion: students can orally demonstrate the application of the new knowledge.
In the busy schedule of the school day, there is often little time for reflection. Yet, reflection is a very important part of the learning process.
How do we expect our students to be able to synthesize their new knowledge if they are not given time to reflect upon what they have discovered?
Too often, we teachers do not allow ourselves the time to reflect, as well.
Set a time that is designated for reflection upon the daily activities. Allow for individual reflection, such as journaling, as well as group reflection and discussion.
Now that you’ve been introduced to Project-Based Learning, do these activities to build on your understanding.
If you are not using the Edutopia text with all your students, the articles can be found on the GLEF Web site: www.glef.org. Search by the article title.
This reading activity can be assigned for homework prior to the class.
Have your participants divide into small groups.
Set guidelines for the groups.
Have them discuss in their groups the projects mentioned in the article.
Was there a particular project that they felt could be used with their students?
Was there a project that inspired them to ask a question of their own?
What was it about a particular project mentioned in the article that made them take notice?
Have the students discuss possible project ideas with their classmates.
Have them create a word-processed document that lists possible questions that will launch a project-based learning lesson.
Have the participants divide into pairs.
Have the teams discuss new project ideas and record their ideas.
Have the teams focus on one question from their project ideas.
Have the teams brainstorm the content standards that could be addressed, the various subjects that could be woven into the project, and the projects that can be created.
Have the teams create a concept map.
Have the teams report to the class.
Edutopia: Success Stories for Learning in the Digital Age can be purchased from The George Lucas Educational Foundation at www.glef.org or 1.888.GLEF.ORG.