ProjectBased Learning Strategies PBL Strategies How does PBL

Project-Based Learning Strategies

PBL Strategies • How does PBL work in the classroom? How does a teacher design a PBL curriculum? • How much is too much standards-based support when designing an authentic challenge? • How many standards does a teacher has to include in his /her design? •

PBL Strategies • PBLis student-centered, student-driven, and gives space for teachers to meet the needs of students in a variety of ways． • PBL can allow for effective differentiation in assessment as well as daily management and instruction

PBL Strategies Teachers ask for real examples, specifics to help them contextualize what it “looks like” in the classroom. They all need to try out specific ideas and strategies to get their brains working in a different context. Here are some specific strategies to use PBL project.

Strategy One Map Standards to the Project Challenge • Strategy one is all about ensuring students use the standards as a way to exhibit their thinking from the lowest to the highest levels of thinking as they find their own answers to authentic challenges.

Strategy One Map Standards to the Project Challenge • High quality authentic project design is about helping our students learn by experiencing real challenges and seeing their creative, relevant solutions come to life in the products they construct.

Strategy One Map Standards to the Project Challenge • This allows teachers to scaffold the content from the very beginning of the project using their ideas, because students need to have support and scaffolding through the process.

Strategy One Map Standards to the Project Challenge As teachers, our role is to make sure these building blocks of learning and content are there for students when they need it.

Strategy Two Balance Teamwork and Individual Work Strategy Two embraces the establishment of routines and schedules to build a classroom community. Make sure to balance teamwork and individual work so that you are supporting a collaborative environment while allowing time to meet students on an individual basis.

Strategy Two Balance Teamwork and Individual Work • Teachers have command of the learning process. We mentor our learners through this process to ensure certain skills are mastered along the way. • These supports might occur during whole group or small group instruction and throughout various times of the day.

Strategy Two Balance Teamwork and Individual Work A good teacher creates a community ecosystem that allows for both independent work and teamwork. These components vary based upon grade level, but two core items run through every classroom community: routines and schedules.

Strategy Three Make Reading & Writing Authentic • Strategy three is for our learners to build their ability to explore, uncover, and solve challenges while, at the same time, developing their reading and writing ability.

Strategy Three Make Reading & Writing Authentic • How does project work make students better readers and writers? • .

Strategy Three Make Reading & Writing Authentic • The connection between projects and literacy runs deep and one cannot occur without the other.

Strategy Three Make Reading & Writing Authentic • It is truly important for teachers to choose authentic literacy. The greater the foundations for reading and writing, the more prepared our learners are for the world ahead. Real world challenges provide the purposeful and authentic reasons for kids to represent how they think and feel.

Strategy Four Maximize Formative Assessment Strategy four is to maximize use of formative assessments throughout the project to monitor learners as they master the standards.

Strategy Four Maximize Formative Assessment • An authentic challenge is derived from our standards and their connection to the real world. This strategy gives us the opportunity to connect our learners’ prior knowledge to their impact on their present world.

Strategy Four Maximize Formative Assessment • The formative assessments we choose to use throughout the project need to be authentic to the challenge.

Strategy Five Activate Intrinsic Motivation • Strategy five promotes the social and emotional development of children who are eager and willing to learn, as they contribute to their own success. This is in lieu of a teacher who tells them they are successful.

Strategy Five Activate Intrinsic Motivation • The key to authentic project design is to understand that our learners are not unmotivated. • They are just motivated by different things. An authentic challenge, grounded in what is relevant for learners, helps to activate their intrinsic motivation.