MEET THE CHALLENGE

Team Formation

Your project is framed by a meaningful problem to be solved or a question to answer. During this phase, come together as a team, choose your leader, set your team norms, and determine your mission.

• WHAT WILL OUR TEAM NAME BE?

• WHO WILL SERVE AS OUR TEAM LEADER?

• WHAT OTHER ROLES SHOULD WE HAVE?

• HOW WILL WE COMMUNICATE WITH EACH OTHER?

• WHAT WILL OUR SCHEDULE LOOK LIKE?

• HOW WILL WE ENSURE THAT ALL MEMBERS HAVE VOICE & CHOICE THROUGHOUT OUR PROJECT

• WHAT IS OUR CHALLENGING QUESTION TO ANSWER, IDEA WE WANT TO TRY, OR MEANINGFUL PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED?

Project Setup

Assess the authenticity of your project & develop your plan of action.

• WHAT ARE THE GOALS & OBJECTIVES FOR OUR PROJECT?

• HOW DOES OUR PROJECT INVOLVE REAL-WORLD CONTEXT?

• HOW WILL OUR PROJECT MAKE AN IMPACT?

• HOW WILL WE ENSURE QUALITY STANDARDS OF OUR PROJECT?

• HOW DOES OUR PROJECT SPEAK TO LEARNER/PROGRAM CONCERNS, INTERESTS, & ISSUES?

• HOW WILL WE INCORPORATE DIGITAL LITERACY/BLENDED LEARNING &/OR RESPECTING DIFFERENCE & DIVERSITY INTO OUR PROJECT?

• HOW DOES OUR PROJECT ADDRESS A SPECIFIC &/OR LOCAL PROBLEM OR ISSUE?

• WHAT ARE WE CREATING? A PRODUCT? TOOL? A LESSON?

• WHAT RESOURCES DO WE NEED TO LOCATE & IDENTIFY IN ORDER TO PROCEED?

Sustained Inquiry

As a team, use the Question Formulation Technique (QFT) to stimulate inquiry. This allows you to make meaning and organize your project work. Use questions formulated & prioritized by the team to then find resources, gather data, & apply information in order to answer your guiding question or solve your problem. Meet regularly to assess progress.

• WHAT IS OUR FOCUS THAT WE WILL USE TO ASK QUESTIONS (TOPIC, IMAGE, PHRASE, SITUATION)?

• WHAT ARE OUR INQUIRY QUESTIONS?

• HOW CAN WE IMPROVE THESE QUESTIONS?

• WHAT IS THE PRIORITY OF OUR QUESTIONS?

• WHERE WILL WE LOOK FOR MODELS, RESEARCH & DATA?

• WHAT ARE OUR NEXT STEPS?

• WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED SO FAR & HOW WILL WE APPLY IT?

Testing, Application, & Feedback

Through testing, gather feedback about your solution to revise and improve upon it.

• HOW CAN WE FIND OUT IF OUR SOLUTION IS GOOD?

• WHAT WILL BE OUR TESTING PLAN?

• WHAT STEPS WILL WE TAKE TO TEST?

• WHO WILL WE ASK TO EVALUATE & TEST OUR SOLUTION?

• WHAT IS OUR TESTING TIMEFRAME?

• WHAT TOOL WILL WE USE TO EVALUATE OUR SOLUTION?

Reflect, Critique, & Advise

As a team, engage in thoughtful, comprehensive reflection about the project's design and progress. Craft your showcase presentation to demonstrate the reasoning behind the choices you made, your inquiry process, findings, & work produced.

• WHAT WORKS?

• WHAT HAS GONE WELL?

• WHAT HAVE OUR CHALLENGES BEEN?

• WHAT NEEDS TO BE IMPROVED?

• IS OUR PRODUCT/SOLUTION LEARNER-CENTERED?

• DOES OUR PRODUCT/SOLUTION INCORPORATE BLENDED LEARNING AND/OR RESPECTING DIFFERENCE & DIVERSITY?

• HOW WILL WE PRESENT OUR FINDINGS?

Showcase Preparation Present your work at the culminating showcase. Together, choose how you will convey your project to the conference audience through Zoom. Craft a summary of your presentation to be posted online & prepare supportive materials that can be shared.

• WHO WILL CRAFT A DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY OF OUR PROJECT?

• WHEN & HOW OFTEN WILL WE PRACTICE AS A TEAM PRESENTING ON ZOOM?

• WHO WILL PRESENT WHAT?

• WHAT MATERIALS/HANDOUTS CAN SUPPORT OUR PRESENTATION?

• WHO WILL GATHER ALL OF OUR PRESENTATION MATERIALS & SUBMIT THEM TO THE CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS?

Evaluate

Use this opportunity, as a team, to evaluate both your project & the PBL process. Determine how you will take what you have learned from this experience further.

• HOW WAS OUR PRESENTATION RECEIVED?

• WHAT FEEDBACK DID WE GET?

• HOW CAN WE IMPROVE MOVING FORWARD?

• WHAT DID WE LEARN FROM OTHER PROJECT PRESENTATIONS?

• HOW WILL WE INDIVIDUALLY APPLY WHAT WE HAVE LEARNED?

• WHAT WILL WE DO WITH OUR PROJECT?

• HOW WILL WE INCORPORATE PBL & QFT INTO OUR PROGRAMS?