Project Based Learning

1. Project Based Learning Linda K. T. Ullah, M.A., M.Ed Support Coach Friday Institute for Educational Innovation linda_ullah@yahoo.com

2. Why Project Based Learning? • Good fit for 1:1 • 21st Century Skills • Higher Order Thinking • Enduring Understanding • Promotes life-long learning • Differentiation • Cooperative Learning • Lower absenteeism • Colleges and universities • Real world connection

3. Life Is Project Based Learning

4. Benefits • Engaged students • Deeper learning • Better retention • Multidisciplinary connections • Improved social and collaboration skills • Habits of mind • Self-management skills • Students become responsible for learning • 21st Century Skills • Test Scores do not drop

5. Data from 1992 to Present indicates: • Better analytical skills • Better critical thinking skills • Better problem solving skills • Better presentation skills • Better creative thinking skills • Better communication skills • Better collaboration and teamwork skills • Less absenteeism • Better student engagement • Fewer discipline problems • Better time management skills • In some cases--better test scores

6. Bridging the disconnect between life and school

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

8. Authenticity Academic Rigor Applied Learning Active Exploration Adult Connection Assessment Practices Six As of Project Based Learning From Buck Institute Web site http://www.bie.org

9. 21st Century Skills Partnership for the 21st Century: http://www.p21.org/index .php?option=com_content&task=view&id=254&Itemid=119

10. Content Conditions Activities Results Another Way to Look at What is PBL Buck Institute for Education: http://www.bie.org/pbl/pbloverview/definition.php

11. Compelling Complex problems Interdisciplinary connections Ambiguity and unpredictability Real-world questions that students care about Content: Buck Institute for Education: http://www.bie.org/pbl/pbloverview/definition.php

12. Conditions: • Support student autonomy • Community of inquiry • Coursework in a social context • Task- and time-management • Self-directed students • Simulates the professional work Buck Institute for Education: http://www.bie.org/pbl/pbloverview/definition.php

13. Activities: • Investigative and engaging • Multi-faceted investigations over time • Encounter obstacles, seek resources, and solving problems • Making connections among ideas and acquiring new skills • Authentic tools • Feedback from expert sources and realistic assessment Buck Institute for Education: http://www.bie.org/pbl/pbloverview/definition.php

14. Results • Real-world outcomes • Complex intellectual products to demonstrate learning • Students participate in assessment • Students held accountable for competence • Students exhibit growth in real-world competence Buck Institute for Education: http://www.bie.org/pbl/pbloverview/definition.php

15. How Do I Begin? • Planning • Begin with an “Essential Question” • Important to your students • Deep learning--the enduring understanding • What are the necessary skills? • Standards • Prerequisite knowledge and skills • Skills and knowledge to to be embedded into the project

16. Begin with the end in mind!

17. The Backwards Planning Process McTighe J, Wiggins G

18. 3 Stages of a Project • Beginning (pre-production) • Middle (production) • End (post-production)

19. Pre-Production • Planning • Launch Project • Knows/Need to Knows • Establish Teams • Review Rubric • Review Task • Begin Research • Direct Instruction • Workshops • Guest Speakers

20. Production • Completing research • Formative assessments • Direct Instruction • Tests/quizzes • Final drafts • Creating product • Workshops • Field trips • Guest speakers

21. Post-production • Editing • Completing projects • Presentations • Displays • Productions/Debates • Final Tests/Assessments • Reflection

22. PBL Process • http://prezi.com/d0v1sg1qlq0-/pbl-process/