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Project Based Learning: Assessment and Other Dirty Words
Here are some tips to help you get started with integrating assessment best practices into your projects, while also helping you uphold rigor and student engagement:
Source: Teaching Channel
Resources for Getting Started With Project-Based Learning
Explore Edutopia's curated compilation of online resources for understanding and beginning to implement project-based learning.
Source: Edutopia
The Difference Between Projects and Project Based Learning
“Projects” can represent a range of tasks that can be done at home or in the classroom, by parents or groups of students, quickly or over time. While project-based learning (PBL) also features projects, in PBL the focus is more on the process of learning and learner-peer-content interaction that the end-product itself.
Source: Teachthought
What's So Different About High Tech High Anyway?
Walking onto a High Tech High campus is like entering a workshop. Our tour guide, sophomore Caroline Egler, pointed out classrooms that supposedly housed physics or humanities or biology, but most students weren’t in those rooms. They were in the hallways working on projects, huddled around computers together, or even working at desks elevated 8 feet above the ground so they towered over the floor. Students seem to be working with purpose, even if it’s not immediately obvious what they’re doing. The scene is chaotic, but not out of control.
Source: KQED Mindshift
Full STEAM Ahead: PBL & the Arts in 2018
Have you ever felt frustrated or concerned that you weren’t equipping your students with the technological skills they will need when they finally enter the post-college job market 10 years from now? Try to imagine the world of 2030 — or even 2040. Once students are at the high school level, they should be looking for and finding ways to connect all their subjects of study together.
Here are a few ideas for doing just that.
Source: Getting Smart
The Six Must-Have Elements Of High Quality Project-Based Learning
Project-based learning advocates are concerned that as the practice becomes more popular many people don't know what high quality learning experiences look like. They're trying to fix that.
Source: KQED Mindshift
Despite the popularity of project based learning, a lot of teachers haven’t gotten around to trying it yet. You’ve been meaning to; you just haven’t had time to learn how. Or maybe you’re doing something you call project based learning, but you have a nagging feeling that you might not be doing it quite right.
If any of this sounds familiar, then this will help. One reason PBL might be hard for some teachers to start is that there’s just so much stuff out there about it. Who has time to wade through it all? To solve this problem, Cult of Pedagogy went out in search of the clearest, most authoritative information on PBL and put together a collection of materials that will help you get your feet wet, plus links to more resources for when you’re ready to dig deeper.
Source: Cult of Pedagogy
How To Ease Students Into Independent Inquiry Projects
Source: KQED Mindshift
How Making an Impact on the World Motivates Students
Connecting projects that students can do locally to a global community both builds global competency and helps students to see how their work impacts the world.
Source: KQED Mindshift
ACADEMIC RESEARCH
ACADEMIC RESEARCH
Motivation in Problem-based Learning Implementation - Science Direct
Abstract: Students’ motivation is a key to success in problem-based learning (PBL) implementation. Transition from conventional teaching method to PBL infuses negative mindsets towards PBL among students who are not familiar with inductive learning methods. This paper describes the approaches in motivating students to learn in a cooperative problem-based learning (CPBL) environment. PBL implementation in an undergraduate chemical engineering course at the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) is taken as a case study to demonstrate the effect of motivation. It is revealed that through systematic motivation given by the facilitator, the level of students’ motivation can be increased to encourage them to reach deep learning. Students’ responses about motivation they gained through the course are included to demonstrate the impact of motivation towards learning process in PBL.
Source: Science Direct and Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
Project-Based Learning for the 21st Century: Skills for the Future
Abstract: Project-Based Learning (PBL) is an innovative approach to learning that teaches a multitude of strategies critical for success in the twenty-first century. Students drive their own learning through inquiry, as well as work collaboratively to research and create projects that reflect their knowledge. From gleaning new, viable technology skills, to becoming proficient communicators and advanced problem solvers, students benefit from this approach to instruction.
Source: The Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas
Videos
Videos
Project-Based Learning in Less Than Five Minutes
Project-based learning is different from traditional classroom projects Learning through projects culminating projects Student choice in design vs. following a set of instructions Student inquiry vs. Pre-planned questions Self and peer assessment vs Teacher assessment Student ownership of process vs. Teacher ownership of process
Source: John Spencer
"It really, actually changed my life."
High school students reflect on their experience of project based learning and describe how they not only learned a great deal of content, but also practiced the 21st century skills needed for personal and workplace success.
Source: Buck Institute
See how School 21 brings cross-curricular, arts-infused project-based learning into every classroom.
Source: Edutopia
The Finance Project: 11th Grade Pre-Calculus
Watch this example of a PBL project in action – the “Financial Planning ” project featuring Telannia Norfar of Northwest Classen High School, Oklahoma City, OK (High School Math). This is one in a series of videos produced by the Buck Institute for Education to showcase Gold Standard PBL projects from a variety of grade levels, subject areas and settings.
Source: Buck Institute
March Through Nashville Project: A 6th Grade Humanities Project
Watch this example of a PBL project in action – the “March Through Nashville Project ” featuring Kimberly Head-Trotter of McKissack Middle School, Nashville, TN (Middle School). This is one in a series of videos produced by the Buck Institute for Education to showcase Gold Standard PBL projects from a variety of grade levels, subject areas and settings.
Source: Buck Institute
The Revolutions Project: 10th Grade World History
Watch this example of a PBL project in action – the “Revolutions” project featuring Erin Brandvold of Impact Academy of Arts and Technology, Hayward, CA (High School World History). This is one in a series of videos produced by the Buck Institute for Education to showcase Gold Standard PBL projects from a variety of grade levels, subject areas and settings.
Source: Buck Institute
The Water Quality Project: Grade 11 Chemistry
Watch this example of a PBL project in action – "The Water Quality Project” featuring Rayhan Ahmed - Leaders High School, Brooklyn, NY (High School Chemistry). This is one in a series of videos produced by the Buck Institute for Education to showcase Gold Standard PBL projects from a variety of grade levels, subject areas and settings.
Source: Buck Institute
Project Based Learning at High Tech High
High Tech High CEO Larry Rosenstock describes a vision for education that embraces learning that flows from personal interests, passion for discovery, and a celebration of art, technology, and craftsmanship.
Source: Buck Institute
Outside Experts Boost Project Authenticity
Students are deeply motivated when they review their physics work with professionals in the field.
Source: Edutopia
Inquiry-Based Learning in the Science Classroom
Beginning with a central question and driven by curiosity and personal passions, science students at Casey Middle seek answers through research, experimentation, and data analysis. Casey Middle School GRADES 6-8 | BOULDER, CO
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Source: Edutopia
Books
Books
Project Based Learning (PBL) Starter Kit
by John Larmer (Author), David Ross (Author), PhD John R. Mergendoller (Author)
The PBL Starter Kit is written for middle school and high school teachers who are new to PBL. It contains easy to read, to-the-point advice about designing, assessing, and managing your first, relatively simple project, with examples and tools to help you plan it well. It can be used as a supplement to BIE professional development workshops or as a stand-alone guide to PBL.
Setting the Standard for Project Based Learning: A Proven Approach to Rigorous Classroom Instruction
by Buck Institute for Education
Project based learning (PBL) is gaining renewed attention with the current focus on college and career readiness and the performance-based emphases of Common Core State Standards, but only high-quality versions can deliver the beneficial outcomes that schools want for their students. It's not enough to just do projects. Today's projects need to be rigorous, engaging, and in-depth, and they need to have student voice and choice built in. Such projects require careful planning and pedagogical skill. The authors leaders at the respected Buck Institute for Education take readers through the step-by-step process of how to create, implement, and assess PBL using a classroom-tested framework. Also included are chapters for school leaders on implementing PBL systemwide and the use of PBL in informal settings.
LAUNCH: Using Design Thinking to Boost Creativity and Bring Out the Maker in Every Student
by John Spencer (Author), A.J. Juliani (Author)
LAUNCH: Using Design Thinking to Boost Creativity and Bring Out the Maker in Every Student provides a process that can be incorporated into every class at every grade level ... even if you don’t consider yourself a “creative teacher.” And if you dare to innovate and view creativity as an essential skill, you will empower your students to change the world—starting right now.
Hacking Project Based Learning: 10 Easy Steps to PBL and Inquiry in the Classroom
by Ross Cooper (Author), Erin Murphy (Author)
As questions and mysteries around PBL and inquiry continue to swirl, experienced classroom teachers and school administrators Ross Cooper and Erin Murphy have written a book that will empower those intimidated by PBL to cry, "I can do this!" while at the same time providing added value for those who are already familiar with the process. Hacking Project Based Learning demystifies what PBL is all about with 10 hacks that construct a simple path that educators and students can easily follow to achieve success.
The 20Time Project: How educators can launch Google's formula for future-ready innovation
by Kevin Brookhouser (Author), Ria Megnin (Editor)
To help inspire innovation and creativity, Google offers employees 20% of their time to work on a project of their choosing. Teachers who offer the same to their students can meet learning goals while creating powerful experiences that lead to increased motivation, creativity, and divergent critical thinking. This book illustrates how to develop a 20time program in middle and high schools across curricula, how to effectively communicate the rationale of the program to administrators, parents, and students, and how to execute the program so students are able to manage their time effectively for a successful final project.
10 Performance-Based STEM Projects for Grades 6-8 Paperback
by Todd Stanley (Author)
10 Performance-Based STEM Projects for Grades 6-8 provides 10 ready-made projects designed to help students achieve higher levels of thinking and develop 21st-century skills while learning about science, technology, engineering, and math.
Programs and initiatives
Programs and initiatives
As a mission-driven nonprofit organization, BIE creates, gathers, and shares high-quality PBL instructional practices and products and provides highly effective services to teachers, schools, and districts.
Ideas
Ideas
These projects are examples of the work that is done at all of the High Tech High Schools.
The following projects have been designed by BIE and its partners to allow you to focus mainly on how to implement a project rather than how to design one.
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