Project Based

LearningPD 9-8-2015

Our Driving Question

• How can we plan effective projects for our students?

What is PBL?

• Project Based Learning is a teaching method in which students gain knowledge and skills by working for an extended period of time to investigate and respond to a complex question, problem, or challenge.

• http://bie.org/object/video/project_based_learning_explained

Essential Project Design Elements

• Key Knowledge, Understanding, and Success Skills - The project is focused on student learning goals, including standards-based content and skills such as critical thinking/problem solving, collaboration, and self-management. 

• Challenging Problem or Question - The project is framed by a meaningful problem to solve or a question to answer, at the appropriate level of challenge.

• Sustained Inquiry - Students engage in a rigorous, extended process of asking questions, finding resources, and applying information.

Essential Project Design Elements

• Authenticity - The project features real-world context, tasks and tools, quality standards, or impact – or speaks to students’ personal concerns, interests, and issues in their lives.

• Student Voice & Choice - Students make some decisions about the project, including how they work and what they create.

• Reflection - Students and teachers reflect on learning, the effectiveness of their inquiry and project activities, the quality of student work, obstacles and how to overcome them.

• Critique & Revision - Students give, receive, and use feedback to improve their process and products.

• Public Product - Students make their project work public by explaining, displaying and/or presenting it to people beyond the classroom.

My project

My Project

• Title: Nuestra Voz, Nuestro Arte

• Driving Question: How can we use art as a tool to inform/educate our community about historial, social, or cultural issues?

• General Content: Mexican revolution, Los Tres Grandes & Frida Kahlo, Mexican corridos.

My Final products

• Individual: I can create an art piece to educate the public about an issue

• Individual: I can create an artist reflection about my art piece and learning process with connections to content

• Group: We can create a presentation to contextualize our issue and present to a live audience.

How will I make it public?

• Students will have an expo night where they will present their art projects and inform a live audience about their social, historical or cultural issue. Parents and students will vote on best project. Students will receive project.

• Find a place to have student work displayed. (FLEX?)

• Weebly page/Youtube

Activity 1: Create your own project

• Use the organizer to create brainstorm ideas about your own project.

• You can think of themes that you have used in the past.

• You can find samples on www.bie.org or Ouchi page- Ms. Cabrera

Why create a driving question?

For students

• Guides project work.

• Creates interest and/or the feeling of challenge.

• Reminds them “Why we are doing this?”

For teachers

• Guides planning and reframes

content standards or big ideas.

• Captures and communicates the

purpose of the project.

• Initiates and focuses inquiry.

Activity 2: Create a driving question.

• Brainstorm a driving question you can use for your own project.

• Use the samples to help you.

Activity 3: Share your driving question• Let’s share our project ideas and

questions.

It’s important to give feedback!

• Critical Friends Protocol is a structured process for giving and receiving feedback to improve a piece of work. BIE uses the Protocol in its PBL 101 workshops to generate feedback on teachers' project designs. The process also can be used with students during a project, as a formative assessment checkpoint of their work-in-progress.

• http://bie.org/object/video/critical_friend_protocol_overview

Resources

• www.bie.org

• Videos: http://bie.org/object/video/critical_friend_protocol_overview

• http://bie.org/object/video/project_based_learning_explained