Project-Based

Pedagogy

Project-Based Education

• Relating questions and technology relative to the students everyday lives to classroom projects

• Students form their own investigation of their own group which allows students to develop valuable research skills

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Project-Based Education

• Apply problem to a real life situation

• Engage in design, problem solving, decision making, and investigative activities

• Come up with ideas and realistic solutions or presentations

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Project-Based Education

• Provide complex tasks based on challenging questions or problems

• Involve the students' problem solving, decision making, investigative skills, and reflection

• Include teacher facilitation, but not direction

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Project-Based Education

• Focus on questions that drive students to encounter the central concepts and principles of a subject hands-on

• Apply these experiences to their lives in the real world

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Project-Based Education

• Think in original ways to come up with the solutions to real world problems

• Conduit for creative thinking skills by showing that there are many ways to solve a problem

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Project-Based Education

• Emphasize learning activities that are long-term, interdisciplinary and student-centered – Students must organize

their own work and manage their own time

– Students collaborate, working together to make sense of what is going on

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Questions?

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