PROJECT BASED LEARNINGOctober 14, 2011
Dianne Matheis
PBL for Student Learning
KWL – NEEDS TO KNOWS What do you know? What do you need to know?
WHAT IS PBL?
Doing Projects: teacher lectures, do worksheets, take test, and then do a project
PBL: Students are pulled through the curriculum by a driving question or realistic problem that provides a “need to know” about the material. Lectures and readings are integrated into the problem as the students need the information.
Know/ Need to Know
PBL v. DOING PROJECT
DEVELOP AN IDEA• WORK FROM CURRENT EVENTS• PROBLEM THAT AFFECTS THE STUDENTS, SCHOOL OR COMMUNITY
SELECT STANDARDS• CHOOSE ONE OR TWO
DECIDE THE SCOPE OF THE PROJECT• DECIDE THE AUDIENCE
INCORPORATE SIMULTANEOUS OUTCOMES•SCAFFOLDING•SKILLS•HABITS OF MIND
BEGIN WITH THE END IN MIND• BACKWARD DESIGN
SELECT 21ST CENTURY SKILL• CHOOSE ONE OR TWO
CRAFT THE DRIVING QUESTION
•Driving questions should challenge student and sustain their interests.
•Driving questions are open-ended.
•Driving questions go to the heart of a topic.
•Driving questions are challenging.
•Driving question can arise from real-world dilemmas.
•Driving questions are consistent with curricular standards and framework.
PLANNING AND
PREPARING
•Develop rubrics for content standard
•Map the project on a calendar
•Create the groups
•Develop scaffolding ideas
•Create entry document
•Create group contracts
•Create an engaging the project launch
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•Open ended activities
•Promote higher level thinking
•Actively involve the students in the learning process
•Be tied to the overall objectives of the project
•Student errors may occur but with teacher or peer feedback, students gain knowledge
•Team leader learns from teacher, then teaches group members
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•Entry Document
•Project Rubrics
•Create Groups
•Discuss and decide classroom norms
•Exchange group information
•Sign Group contacts
MANAGING THE PROJECT
•Your role will be a coach/project manager
•Reinforce the driving question
•Revisit the knows and need to knows
•Communicate expectations by checking the group’s benchmarks
•Review project checklist of completed tasks with each group
•Update project plan to make adjustments as needed
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•Students present to a panel of experts or a group of people
•Students reflect and analyze the outcome of project
•Whole class debriefing
•Critical friends to each other
•Student and teacher create a self evaluation
CELEBRATE SUCCESS