PBL & smarT Goals

Navigating through a year of remote learning during the pandemic, and a year of readjusting to the classroom has surfaced and perpetuated challenges in student engagement across Maker. Since returning to in-person learning, teacher-driven instruction has been prevalent and both students and staff have voiced a need for regrounding core Maker practices of CBE, PBL, and design learning. Student behaviors such as lateness and daily / period attendance are additional areas of growth that have been identified based on student engagement and rigorous expectations. We don’t want students who are merely compliant; we want them to be learning, we want them to be challenged, and we want them to feel that their presence matters. We want the learning that happens in our classrooms to support them in their experiences outside of our classroom as well.     

If I implement project based learning, then students will be able to create actionable smart goals for their future career. This will be measured by polling question before and after the benchmark is complete.