Project Based Learning
High Tech Schools of San Diego - Leaders in Project Based Learning
High Tech High schools are a collection of grade schools, middle schools, and high schools in San Diego that use project based learning as their instructional approach to teaching and learning. A search on their website will bring you to several project descriptions and a description of their guiding design principles: equity, personalization, authentic work, and collaborative design.
Share Your Learning
Are you a teacher who wants to share your students' presentations of learning?
Here is a link to the Share Your Learning site where you can join other educators in sharing your students' work and your resources, while also getting valuable resources in return. I encourage you to check this site out.
What is 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. -Buck Institute
The Buck Institute - All Things PBL
The Buck Institute provides a great deal of information that is all things PBL. From project outlines, to videos of PBL in action, to the purpose of using project based learning as an approach to teaching and learning, the Buck Institute provides a great starting place for teachers and administrators to educate themselves on all things PBL.
High Quality Project Based Learning
The buck Institute recognizes that project based learning is being used increasingly as a teaching method and has therefore launched a new framework that outlines high quality project based learning (HQPBL) in order to provide educators everywhere with a shared basis for designing and implementing good projects. The framework describes what students should be doing, learning, and experiencing during the course of a project.
If you would like support with creating a project, feedback on the implementation of a project, or just wondering how to get started, please reach out to Kelli Dean, Instructional Innovation Coordinator for North Country Supervisory Union kelli.dean@ncsuvt.org
Project Based Learning in Our Schools provides a menu of supports that may be helpful for your teaching practice.