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Why Project Based Learning?

Explore the benefits of Project-Based Learning in preparing students for the challenges of the 21st century. Discover how PBL fosters critical thinking, collaboration, and real-world skills essential for success.

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Why Project Based Learning?

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  1. Why Project Based Learning? Sig Rogich Middle School 2012-2013

  2. When society changes – so too must education if it is to remain viable. Job Outlook 2002,National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE)

  3. Characteristics of PBL • Organizes standards-based curriculum around a meaningful open-ended problem or project with more than one approach or answer • Encourages active inquiry and higher-order thinking skills • Engages students as stakeholders • Creates a learning environment where teachers coach, guide inquiry, and facilitate deeper levels of understanding • Concludes with realistic products

  4. Project Based Learning • emphasizes learning activities that are: • student-centered • They become the problem solver, decisions maker, investigator, documentarian • They take on the role of those working in a particular discipline • long-term • Projects can be a variety of lengths • What they are not is one-day teacher centered lessons • integrated with real world issues and practices and have compelling questions • Significance beyond the classroom walls

  5. The Rigor/Relevance Framework K N O W L E D G E T A X O N O M Y 6 5 4 3 2 1 Evaluation C Assimilation D Adaptation Synthesis Analysis Application A Acquisition B Application Understanding Awareness 1 2 3 4 5 Apply across disciplines Apply to real world predictable situations Apply to real-world unpredictable situations Knowledge Apply in discipline APPLICATION MODEL International Center for Leadership in Education

  6. Success Beyond the Test • Core Academics • Stretch learning • Learner Engagement • Personal Skill Development Rigor Relevance Relationships

  7. Learning Criteria • Core Academics – Achievement in the core subjects of English language arts, math, science, social studies and others identified by the school or district • Stretch Learning – Demonstration of rigorous and relevant learning beyond the minimum requirements

  8. Learning Criteria • Learner Engagement – The extent to which students are motivated and committed to learning; have a sense of belonging and accomplishment; and have relationships with adults, peers and parents that support learning • Personal Skill Development – Measures of personal, social, service, and leadership skills and demonstrations of positive behaviors and attitudes

  9. 21st Century Skills • Critical Thinking & Problem Solving • Creativity & Innovation • Collaboration, Teamwork & Leadership • Cross-cultural Understanding • Communication & Media Literacy • Computing and ITC Technology • Career & Learning Self-direction

  10. A Project Learning Classroom is ... • Project-centered • Open-ended • Real-world • Student-centered • Constructive • Collaborative • Creative • Communication- focused • Research-based • Technology- enhanced • 21st Century reform-friendly • Hard, but fun!

  11. Today’s Students are Digital Natives Conventional Twitch Speed Speed Step-by-Step Random Access Linear Processing Parallel Processing Text First Graphics First Work-Oriented Play-Oriented Stand-alone Connected

  12. Students Develop Needed Skills in… • Information Searching & Researching • Critical Analysis • Summarizing and Synthesizing • Inquiry, Questioning and Exploratory Investigations • Design and Problem-solving

  13. In a project learning classroom… The teacher’s role is one of coach, facilitator, guide, advisor, mentor… not directing and managing all student work.

  14. Project Based Learning—The Titanic • Research the sinking of the RMS Titanic • Students choose teams • Team Contracts—decide leadership responsibilities, etc. • Planning documents—Buck Institute • Determine driving question • Research question—sometimes devise new questions

  15. 7th Titanic PBL • Driving Questions: • Was the Titanic disaster caused by human error? • What is the relationship of captaining the Titanic with driving a car in Summerlin? • Was poor design and inferior product to blame for the RMS Titanic’s demise? • Can you blame the captain for the Titanic disaster? • What happens when people are over confident? • What are the similarities and differences between the Titanic and modern day mega ships? • What if a woman was sailing that ship?—Scientific studies in thinking and accident theory.

  16. Prezi Presentation • http://prezi.com/ggz3iegxpapz/titanic-pbl/ Students used the online presentation software to explain how history could be recreated to keep the Titanic from sinking.

  17. Glogster.com • http://titanicpbl.edu.glogster.com/glog-6493/?voucher=ebeb0c0aa90fbdee858c75a77916c99e

  18. References: • Intel: Innovation in Education • International Center for Leadership in Education • The Buck Institute for Education-- http://www.bie.org/ http://www.bie.org/videos/video/project_based_learning_explained

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