Participants will have the opportunity to explore current best practices for establishing classroom culture and craft a plan for the coming years that will help academy students produce successful projects.
Generating the conditions for creative learning in the visual artsEduSkills OECD
This presentation was given by Anna Cutler at the international conference “Fostering creativity in children and young people through education and culture” in Durham, United Kingdom on 4-5 September 2017.
Designing a Creativity Friendly Learning EnvironmentEduSkills OECD
This presentation was given by Anne Fennell at the international conference “Fostering creativity in children and young people through education and culture” in Durham, United Kingdom on 4-5 September 2017.
Planning Structured Activities - Project-Based Learning, Service Learning, an...PhillyOST
This presentation accompanies an interactive youth development and curriculum development workshop that supports staff members and the planning process for three structured activities approaches: project-based learning, service learning, and experiential learning. It applies planning using materials, cycles and strategies for success.
Generating the conditions for creative learning in the visual artsEduSkills OECD
This presentation was given by Anna Cutler at the international conference “Fostering creativity in children and young people through education and culture” in Durham, United Kingdom on 4-5 September 2017.
Designing a Creativity Friendly Learning EnvironmentEduSkills OECD
This presentation was given by Anne Fennell at the international conference “Fostering creativity in children and young people through education and culture” in Durham, United Kingdom on 4-5 September 2017.
Planning Structured Activities - Project-Based Learning, Service Learning, an...PhillyOST
This presentation accompanies an interactive youth development and curriculum development workshop that supports staff members and the planning process for three structured activities approaches: project-based learning, service learning, and experiential learning. It applies planning using materials, cycles and strategies for success.
Structured Activities - Planning Projects - Project Based Learning, Service L...PhillyOST
This presentation joins an interactive workshop conducted about developing projects that include service learning, experiential learning, and project-based learning. It covers the ideas and concepts for the project approaches, as well as the documentation that is needed to complete it effectively. It covers positive youth development, education, curriculum, and more.
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.
As a part of the series of presentations by the teachers on various pedagogies suggested by NEP 2020, the fourth session dealt with Project Based Learning , where impactful
project based teaching strategies were shared by the group of teachers of Ram Ratna International School.
It showcased various elements of the Project based learning and a role of a teacher for effective PBL from planning to execution. Examples related to different subject and grades were presented during the session. Overall it was a perfect presentation on PBL pedagogy under the leadership of Ms Dhanashri Kotwal and by her teammates Mr. Nilesh Patil, Ms. Shabnam Shaikh and Ms. Soniya Robins.
View full video session on https://youtu.be/Xu7wDrtmfxM
Building a District System of Engagement and Support for PathwaysNAFCareerAcads
This workshop for district leadership will provide a framework for building a district system of support so that academies at school sites have the support to thrive. Topics of discussion include leadership, equity, system alignment, pathway design and quality, and operations with attention given to the development of broad-based coalition
Internships Are Out There: Find The Right OpportunityNAFCareerAcads
Northeast High School AOF will share best practices for providing paid internships and other meaningful work-based learning opportunities that are attractive to future employees.
Structured Activities - Planning Projects - Project Based Learning, Service L...PhillyOST
This presentation joins an interactive workshop conducted about developing projects that include service learning, experiential learning, and project-based learning. It covers the ideas and concepts for the project approaches, as well as the documentation that is needed to complete it effectively. It covers positive youth development, education, curriculum, and more.
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.
As a part of the series of presentations by the teachers on various pedagogies suggested by NEP 2020, the fourth session dealt with Project Based Learning , where impactful
project based teaching strategies were shared by the group of teachers of Ram Ratna International School.
It showcased various elements of the Project based learning and a role of a teacher for effective PBL from planning to execution. Examples related to different subject and grades were presented during the session. Overall it was a perfect presentation on PBL pedagogy under the leadership of Ms Dhanashri Kotwal and by her teammates Mr. Nilesh Patil, Ms. Shabnam Shaikh and Ms. Soniya Robins.
View full video session on https://youtu.be/Xu7wDrtmfxM
Building a District System of Engagement and Support for PathwaysNAFCareerAcads
This workshop for district leadership will provide a framework for building a district system of support so that academies at school sites have the support to thrive. Topics of discussion include leadership, equity, system alignment, pathway design and quality, and operations with attention given to the development of broad-based coalition
Internships Are Out There: Find The Right OpportunityNAFCareerAcads
Northeast High School AOF will share best practices for providing paid internships and other meaningful work-based learning opportunities that are attractive to future employees.
The Complete Guide to Scheduling SLC's and Career AcademiesNAFCareerAcads
Learn how to unlock the constraints of traditional bell schedules and implement hybrid models that allow for flexible, performance driven instruction. This session will cover improved master schedule procedures and timelines, implementation of hybrid schedules to provide curricular specific teaching periods, implementation of procedures to complete cohort schedules, creation of common planning times for educators, efficient use of instructional facilities, and flexible schedules to allow for direct instruction to student groups based upon formative assessment data
The math teacher opts out, the English teacher says she’ll participate if there’s time and
the social studies teacher is wondering about covering standards. How can we ensure
engaging projects still meet standards? Come learn how to performance map a project to
ensure rigor and provide relevance.
Providing Students a Quality Internship - Keys to SuccessNAFCareerAcads
Providing a quality internship for every student is one of our main objectives at NAF. This interactive panel discussion will address key steps to ensure the NAF internship is a game-changing experience for every student and will clarify the role everyone – educators, employers, students and parents – needs to play. Best practices will also be shared, enabling participants to draw from their experiences and share their own perspectives.
This interdisciplinary visual design project brings together topics from government, English, health and digital design for real world analysis. Students study the effects of food choices on personal health, the environment, the economy and the influence of marketing and packaging on those choices. Students learn that what they eat not only affects their health, but the health of the world. Partners from the design and health care field coach students as they develop and design their food package.
Incorporate Digital Photography and Social Media into the CurriculumNAFCareerAcads
Can Facebook, Instagram and digital photography work as tools in your classroom? Technology is redefining the way we communicate, and social media and digital photography have played a huge part in the shift. Come learn strategies for engaging students by incorporating social media and digital photography into the NAF curriculum.
The Apprentice and The Classroom - Creating Engaging ActivitiesNAFCareerAcads
Modeled after the reality show "The Apprentice" and other contest-style reality shows, learn how to incorporate engaging activities and games to bring your classroom to life. Come hear about other leadership activities that can be incorporated into lessons and warm up activities. Participants will walk out with lessons, handouts and activities to incorporate in your own classroom.
The Global Achievment Gap: Schools that WorkBen Johnson
This is a summary of the content and perspectives for the implications of 21st century skills upon the needed change in education regarding structure, instruction, and assessment. In chapter 6 Tony Wagner highlights the ground-breaking work done at High Tech High.
The Global Achievement Gap: Schools that Work Ben Johnson
This is a summary of the content and perspectives for the implications of 21st century skills upon the needed change in education regarding structure, instruction, and assessment. In chapter 6, Tony Wagner highlights the ground-breaking work done at High Tech High.
On January 31, 2012, Dr. Lisa Leith from School Improvement Network presented a webinar examining the social, emotional and academic profile of the struggling student. She also explored the potential that integration of Common Core Standards offers for meeting the needs of the whole child, for empowering students to drive their own learning pathways, to increase motivation and relevance and to refocus students and teachers on success beyond school.
To download the presentation, or to see the archive of past webinars, visit:
http://www.schoolimprovement.com/pd360-free-pd/webinars/
Slides for a session on Passion-Based Learning at the Lausanne Laptop Institute, 2012. More session info/resources available here: http://pwoessner.wikispaces.com/Passion-Based+Learning
here we explain the role of the 4 C's, collaboration, critical thinking,creativity and communication in the 21st century skills. we explain their iportance and their application in the classroom.
NAF launched NAF Track Certified Hiring at NAF Next. The program gives students who earn a NAF certificate a leg up with job opportunities with 10 of the nation's leading companies.
Bridging the gap between poverty and success is a challenge for all academies. This session will highlight the obstacles associated with students who are economically disadvantaged and provide practical solutions for supporting students facing these problems.
What Difference Does it Make-- Reviewing Evidence on School- Employer Partner...NAFCareerAcads
The seminar will present an authoritative overview of recent national and international research into the impact that employer engagement in education has on young people as they move through schooling and ultimately into the work world. Learn how and why employer interventions can have positive impacts on the success of young people.
Teacher externships are a powerful way to revitalize your teaching and see firsthand how classroom skills and knowledge translate to the workplace. Come learn the first steps of planning a successful teacher externship program, hear ideas on where to look for support and sponsorship and view templates and checklists to get you started on setting up a valuable workplace experience.
SCAS Panel Session - Unique Solutions and Practical IdeasNAFCareerAcads
NAF developed a next-generation assessment system designed to model real-world demands, including the integrated application of academic, career-technical and workforce readiness skills. Designed to bridge the gap among high school career-technical programs, post-secondary course articulation, admission policies and workforce readiness, Student Certification Assessment System (SCAS) assesses a broad range of content and skills through rigorous end-of-course exams and evidence-based portfolios combined with supervisor and teacher feedback. This open and interactive panel session will explore benefits and opportunities while providing a problem-oriented approach to implementing and supporting SCAS. Panelists will represent different perspectives, and will be able to offer unique solutions and share practical ideas.
Scaffolding Your Work-Based Learning Program for Grades 9-12NAFCareerAcads
Do you want to have a concrete action plan for implementing work-based learning into your academy? This session will provide your academy with the scaffolding tools necessary to create a four-year sequenced plan for your students. See how a strong work-based learning plan can include meaningful activities, lesson plans as well as development procedures for utilizing your community and local businesses in the classroom.
SAS Programming for High School - Giving Students the Power to KnowNAFCareerAcads
SAS has created a tremendous opportunity for high school students to learn skills that involve not only programming but critical thinking and problem solving. This workshop will explain SAS, show why it should be taught, explore what it looks like in the classroom and highlight the connection between SAS and the NAF AOIT curriculum.
Lessons Learned on the Journey to Create a Great Intern ProgramNAFCareerAcads
Come hear how to design and implement a successful internship program from a team that's built a great model in Dallas through a partnership between the Dallas Independent School District and Capital One.
With the help of research and district experts, this session will cover how to identify the right data to highlight for specific audiences, how to develop the best formats to present data in various situations and how to access the available tools and documents that NAF provides to assist with results-based marketing.
With the help of research and district experts, this session will cover how to identify the right data to highlight for specific audiences, how to develop the best formats to present data in various situations and how to access the available tools and documents that NAF provides to assist with results-based marketing.
Project Lead The Way - A K-12 STEM Program of StudyNAFCareerAcads
Project Lead The Way (PLTW) offers an engaging K-12 STEM curriculum. This session will discuss PLTW programming at all levels and how it incorporates activity, project and problem-based learning to help students think critically, problem solve and collaborate.
Program Data 101 - From Data Center to Academy Assessment to Action Planning–...NAFCareerAcads
Designed for new academies, this session will focus on ways to meet critical deadlines and use data to inform your academy improvement plan. Academies will share their timelines and strategies for collecting data, meeting with leaders to score the academy assessment and how they use results to create action plans for improvement. The session promises to be informative for new academies looking for help in developing good habits for involving others and creating a plan for their academy development efforts.
Preparing Your Students to Secure and Succeed in a Corporate InternshipNAFCareerAcads
This workshop will discuss the processes and criteria for selecting and hiring interns at KPMG, one of the "big four" public accounting firms. During the workshop, KPMG presenters will share the firm’s resume review processes, interviewing protocols, selection indicators and hiring practices so that academy directors and advisory board members will be in a better position to prepare their academy students for these key internship positions. Tips for how to be successful on the job will be shared.
Participants will learn about our state of the art, cloud-based approach to engineering education and how best to promote 21st century skills such as self-direction, initiative and problem solving within the classroom. Participants will gain a deeper understanding of how to integrate engineering into core academic subjects and learn strategies to seamlessly incorporate their academy’s work-based learning plan objectives into their courses. In addition, we will share information regarding Paxton/Patterson's innovative approach to assessment, remediation and Common Core alignment, demonstrating how we improve student learning and accountability while simultaneously providing greater flexibility to instructors.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
To Graph or Not to Graph Knowledge Graph Architectures and LLMs
In Depth Workshop: Academy Development - Day 1 of 2 Day Workshop
1. www.thommarkham.com www.projectbasedlearning.us Developing Your Academy National Academy Foundation Conference July 18 – 19, 2011 San Francisco, CA Thom Markham, Ph.D.
2. Monday Establishing your D&T culture Defining your vision Your ideal graduate Groups to teams Resources Tuesday How PBL fits Using PBL to make the culture work Opening the year A final plan Share, debrief, head out for Alcatraz What’s ahead…
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4. An Integrative Model of PBL Youth Development Academy and School Culture Instruction PBL
5. Human Performance and Education’s New three R’s Rigor Relevance Relationship Human Performance
6. Caring relationships High expectations Meaningful participation Safety Love Belonging Respect Mastery Challenge Power Meaning Cooperation Empathy Problem-solving Self-efficacy Self-awareness Goals and aspirations Improved health, social, academic and culturally appreciative outcomes Protective factors Youth needs Resilient behaviors/internal assets Youth development in action www.WestEd.org/hks
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8. Habits of Mind Persisting Managing Impulsivity Listening with Understanding and Empathy Thinking about Thinking Striving for Accuracy Questioning and Posing Problems Applying Past Knowledge to New Situations Thinking and Communicating with Clarity and Precision Gathering Data through all Senses Creating, Imagining, Innovating Responding with Wonderment and Awe Taking Responsible Risks Finding Humor Thinking Interdependently Remaining Open to Continuous Learning Source – Arthur L. Costa and Bena Kallick in The Habits of Mind
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22. Project Design Cycle Identify the Challenge Craft the Driving Question Plan Backwards Keep the End in Mind Enroll & Engage Build the Assessment Facilitate the Teams
34. Reflect on process and outcomes Student performance. Student engagement. Clarity of instructions. Clarity of process. Clarity of evaluation. (Reeves, 1999 )
36. WHY HAVE A DRIVING QUESTION? FOR STUDENTS FOR TEACHERS Guides Project Work Initiates Interest and/or the Feeling of Challenge Reminds Them “ Why we’re doing this today” Engages Students in Solutions Turns a Big Idea into a Project Captures & Communicates the Purpose of the Project Guides Planning & Reframes Initiates and Focuses Inquiry
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A project is organized around a question that captures the issue, problem, or challenge for students to address. The DQ is open-ended, meaning it has more than one possible answer. For example, in the 22 nd Mission Project, the DQ would be, “If there was a 22 nd California Mission, where would it be?” We’ll be taking a closer look at DQs a bit later.
For Project Videos and Online Project Libraries to get some ideas.
(Insert name of main course project shown/explained previously) A project in PBL has these 7 essential features. I’ll explain each of these in more detail. (do not explain each one now – wait for following slides) JUST IN CASE SOMEONE ASKS: this is a Heptagon (also referred to as Septagon) – Seven Sided Polygon. From Greek hepta, "seven.”
A project is organized around a question that captures the issue, problem, or challenge for students to address. The DQ is open-ended, meaning it has more than one possible answer. For example, in the 22 nd Mission Project, the DQ would be, “If there was a 22 nd California Mission, where would it be?” We’ll be taking a closer look at DQs a bit later.
A project is organized around a question that captures the issue, problem, or challenge for students to address. The DQ is open-ended, meaning it has more than one possible answer. For example, in the 22 nd Mission Project, the DQ would be, “If there was a 22 nd California Mission, where would it be?” We’ll be taking a closer look at DQs a bit later.
This is a key concept in PBL -- the project creates a “need to know” for students. In traditional education, typically, students are told they need to learn something “because it’s going to be on the test” or “it’s important for your grade” or “you’ll need it later in school or in life.” This may motivate some students, but not others. But if they are exploring an interesting question or meeting a challenge, students will be more motivated. The fact that students are going to make a public presentation also creates a need to know the material – so they won’t look bad in front of an audience. For example, in the 22 nd Mission Project, the letter from the Archbishop gave students a need to know information about geography, history, culture, architecture, and so on in order to complete their task.
This is a key concept in PBL -- the project creates a “need to know” for students. In traditional education, typically, students are told they need to learn something “because it’s going to be on the test” or “it’s important for your grade” or “you’ll need it later in school or in life.” This may motivate some students, but not others. But if they are exploring an interesting question or meeting a challenge, students will be more motivated. The fact that students are going to make a public presentation also creates a need to know the material – so they won’t look bad in front of an audience. For example, in the 22 nd Mission Project, the letter from the Archbishop gave students a need to know information about geography, history, culture, architecture, and so on in order to complete their task.
Points that can be made about “Disaggregating Data” in this way: One of the most powerful ways to emphasize the importance of 21 st Century Skills is to grade and report them separately. Give a grade for each product, not one grade for the whole project Separate % or weights for content and 21 st century skills Make the group grade a percentage of the individual grade (?? Need an example)
A project is organized around a question that captures the issue, problem, or challenge for students to address. The DQ is open-ended, meaning it has more than one possible answer. For example, in the 22 nd Mission Project, the DQ would be, “If there was a 22 nd California Mission, where would it be?” We’ll be taking a closer look at DQs a bit later.
Try one of these ways to launch your project. (presenter may give examples) The key goals are to: Engage students’ interest: give them a reason to care about the project. Begin the inquiry process: generate questions, a sense of wonder, a need to know more.
Three of the most commonly found 21 st Century skills that we emphasize in PBL are: Critical Thinking (which often contains Problem Solving) Collaboration Communication, especially presentation skills We think these are skills that will be required for future success – in general and in the workplace. Moreover, we believe: Schools (and PBL) can teach these Students can get better at these skills if they see them modeled, talk about what they are, and practice them. These skills should be assessed. And they will become even more important if they are explicitly factored into grades and reported to students, parents, and even employers and post-secondary institutions. (More on this later.) Many organizations and schools have lists of these skills today, which may include additional skills like “creativity,” “global competency,” “able to use technology,” and “time and task management.” (Image is a ropes course – used by 21st-century companies to build teams, skills.)
Students should have some degree of voice and choice in a project, to increase engagement and encourage independent thinking. How much depends on you, your students, and the nature of the project. Typically, if students are new to PBL, a project is more teacher-directed. In later projects, students can make more of their own decisions, but it’s always guided by the teacher to some extent. Students can help create a Driving Question, or sub-questions for inquiry; decide what products they will create to answer the Question; decide who will do what on a team, what resources to gather, how to organize time and tasks.
A project is organized around a question that captures the issue, problem, or challenge for students to address. The DQ is open-ended, meaning it has more than one possible answer. For example, in the 22 nd Mission Project, the DQ would be, “If there was a 22 nd California Mission, where would it be?” We’ll be taking a closer look at DQs a bit later.
A Driving Question helps both students and teachers… A project without a Driving Question is like an essay without a thesis.
(Facilitator to customize for audience, with HS, MS, ES and various subject examples) Note how the second question, in addition to being answerable given limits on time & resources, would also make the project more engaging for students.
