Project-Based Learning (PBL)

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Comment by Bill Burkhead on July 14, 2011 at 8:25pm

Just included PBL in my new post: Transforming our Educational System: The Silver Bullet. Your opinions would be valued on its merit.

http://bburkhead.blogspot.com/

Comment by Laura Wright on July 14, 2011 at 8:19pm

Best explanation of PBL out there. Don't you just love Common Craft?

Comment by Rossel Mulaire on April 6, 2011 at 11:44am

Good morning.....calling all teachers, students, colleagues, etc...

I sincerely apologize if any of you are receiving this message more than once. We are trying to reach as many teachers/students as possible around the world. It's possible that you're a member of more than one of the groups I have joined. My apologies!

My name is Rossel Mulaire. I am a Canadian teacher who has been living and working in Monterrey, Mexico since 2004. For the past two years, I have been teaching 8th and 9th grade Social Studies/World History. My other responsibilities include being our school's Model United Nation's advisor and Social Studies Department Head. I have taught many different grade levels (first through tenth grades), in Canada, South Korea, and Mexico.

I recently started a little project on Twitter with my 8th and 9th graders, tweeting daily about historical facts and events, sort of like a "this day in history". We are wondering if you'd be able to give out our twitter address to students and teachers. Not only wherever you find yourselves now, but anywhere else you may have contacts. We see this as a great way to teach and appreciate history, bit by bit, one small step at a time. We are trying to use technology to reach more students, and to open dialogue with students and teachers around the world.

If you are in a position to help us, please do so by JOINING US ON TWITTER and by sending our twitter address to students and colleagues, past and present. Ask them to follow our many daily tweets. At the moment, we are tweeting about historical events and facts from around the world. We'd love to see students commenting on our tweets, and also, by adding to our project by posting historical content from their respected countries.

We are hoping to hear from teachers and students from all  parts of the world! The students are keeping a record of the various countries following us! Please help out by following us. The more people (students, teachers, family members, etc) we have following us, the more excited the students get. This excitement then becomes a motivator to continue! Help us make learning about history a little more interesting!

Our  twitter address is: www.twitter.com/rosselmulaire

Please feel free to contact me anytime. I'd be happy to answer any questions or doubt you may have.

Rossel Mulaire

Colegio Euroamericano,

8th and 9th grade Social Studies teacher

Social Studies Department Head and Model United Nations Advisor

www.twitter.com/rosselmulaire

Comment by Bill Burkhead on March 13, 2011 at 5:21pm

excellent post on this topic  "Criteria for Effective Assessment in Project-Based Learning

http://urlm.in/hhbu

Criteria for Effective Assessment in Project-Based Learning

 

@northeagles

Comment by Alicia Lopez on August 23, 2010 at 12:16am

Check out the outstanding PBL prezi by Kim Trefz. She captures the essence of this pedagogy.
http://prezi.com/s6yokttt7snu/project-based-learning/

Comment by Jason Ravitz on August 9, 2010 at 12:03am

Alicia, et al., we provide some examples of "what PBL looks like"on the BIE home page.

The Powerful Learning work is excellent. If people have not seen it, here are links to related online materials from Edutopia.

Imho, the different names have more in common than not and the kind of support required by teachers is almost the same regardless. Yes, practices vary in important ways. But that is true even among teachers who are nominally using the same approach. It is the definition, not the term that matters! Choosing a name is less important than finding an approach (or a set of approaches) that works for your situation.

Comment by Alicia Lopez on July 8, 2010 at 10:40pm

Our district-wide study team is reading Powerful Learning: What we Know About Teaching for Understanding by Linda Darling-Hammond and other authors (Barron, Pearson,Schoenfeld, Stage, Zimmerman, Cervetti, Tilson). This resource is helping us put together a framework that can be applied and communicated to all staff. We're trying to sort through the following questions:
What does inquiry-based learning, problem-based learning, project based learning and design based learning look like in the classroom? When do we use these approaches in the classroom? How do they differ? How are they similar? Linda Darling Hammond states, "The family of approaches that can be described as inquiry-based includes project-based learning, design-based learning, and problem-based learning." This resource book helps to clarify these approaches in the context of inquiry-based learning & 21st century skills.
K-12 Study Team will develop and modify units, share student work and continue to generate questions that will help us make sense of all these approaches.
Once the team feels comfortable with the process, we'll offer in-house professional development sessions led by teachers. Our goal is to develop common understanding of inquiry-based learning throughout the district - What does it look like? What doesn't it look like?

Comment by Shannon Hill on June 25, 2010 at 6:24pm

Does anyone here integrate Project based learning into their elementary class, and what does it look like (scheduling, etc)? I would love to chat with someone.

Comment by Eva Büyüksimkeşyan on June 9, 2010 at 11:03am

Can you suggest where I can start reading about PBL? We had a series of seminars and workshops at school and we really got lost. If I can find something to begin with, that will be great for the next year.

Comment by Suzanne Bartel on May 28, 2010 at 1:08am

Thank you all! I really appreciate some of the links. Peace Corps seems to have so many great/applicable project options. David R Wetzel, I appreciated your blog about the 6 easy steps to creating a project in your class.

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