Key Terms

Meaningful Feedback: Reactions to a person's performance on a task, which is used as a basis for improvement, allows individuals to learn, grow, and do their job better

Project-Based Learning: Project Based Learning is a teaching method in which students gain knowledge and skills by working for an extended period of time to investigate and respond to an authentic, engaging, and complex question, problem, or challenge

STEM: This acronym stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. Typically it is used to describe a class that incorporates all of these things together.

Productive Struggle: The process of effortful learning that develops grit and creative problem solving, a state of engagement the enables students to work through increasingly challenging problems and new problems they have never seen before

Conceptual Understanding: Knowing more than isolated facts and methods. Successful student understands ideas and has the ability to transfer their knowledge into new situations and apply it to new contexts.