2.
How is PBL different from traditional
approaches to teaching and learning?
Why is PBL appropriate for the intervention
classroom?
How are PBL units designed?
How does research support PBL?
3. I can explain what Project-Based Learning is
and how it works for motivating struggling
students.
I can plan units around driving questions and
projects that are important to students.
4. concepts and ideas, they naturally formulat
questions such as, “What’s going on? Why
this happening? What does this mean? Wha
will happen in the future?” If they decide to
answer these questions, they embark on a
journey of thought that may take a few
minutes, hours, or years.
5.
Do you have any experience with Project-Based
Learning? Think about the quote we just discussed.
Quick-write!
In your Reflection Journal, brainstorm and record
your thoughts and ideas related to this question:
What is Project-Based Learning?
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Serve as facilitator
Model thinking and problem-solving strategies
effectively
Structure meaningful tasks
Work with students to frame worthwhile questions
Manage the structure of multiple day-to-day
activities to produce high quality outcomes
Teach students to set goals
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Is more effective that traditional instruction in
increasing academic achievement
Improves student retention of knowledge over
time
Improves mastery of 21st century skills
Is especially effective with lower-
achieving students
Buck Institute
18. Students will conduct
extensive research and self-
evaluation in defining
success, adversity
interview, trait
survey, overcome
success and goal-setting andinventory
perseverance
resilience
perspective
“arena of life”
evaluate
extensive research
Justify
characteristics
processes for the future.
1.What is success?
2.What goals do I have for
this school year? High
school? Life?
3.What will I need to do/
change to achieve my goals?
Media/mulit-media
4.What skills do I need to
develop?
Students will create a report on the qualities or traits
successful people have to be posted on school website
Student will create ppt to be shared with class that includes
1)def. of success; 2) role models; 3) goals; 4)plan of action
X
X
Define
Success
What I
know
Steps
Self
assessment
personal
professional
Outlining
the process
Identify and
examine role
models
Examples
Success:
setting and achieving
my goals for life
Non-
Examples
Needed skills
and abilities
Personal
traits
What
Can I Do
20. When you begin developing ideas for
projects, envision your students presenting
their work to an involved audience.
The project should end with a sense of
pride, excitement, and celebration.
PBL Starter Kit p. 30
21.
I can explain what Project-Based Learning is and
how it works for motivating struggling students.
I can plan units around driving questions and
projects that are important to students.
In any case, life does not come problem-free because that is
the nature of life here on earth, full of challenging
opportunities to learn, grow, reflect, and enjoy.
This may be the most obvious reason why project-based
learning is important for us to consider – PBL engages
students in life as we know it, full of fascinating, problematic
situations worth thinking about, investigating, and resolving.
--from Problem-Based Learning by John Barell (2007)
22. Beer, Donald R., Marcia Invernizzi, Shane Templeton, Francine
Johnston. Words Their Way. Prentice Hall: 2008.
Buck Institute for Education. Project-Based Learning for the 21st
Century. http://www.bie.org/
--PBL Starter Kit. BIE 2009.
Barell, John. Problem-Based Learning: An Inquiry Approach.
Corwin Press: Thousand Oaks 2007.
