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Strategy Guides
Just as you encourage students to accept critique and revise their work, you should use critique processes to inform your revision of projects. This strategy guide offers guidance on how to request and use student feedback to refine your projects.
Strategy Guides
How to use project walls to manage and display student learning in the classroom.
Planning Tools
Plan projects with Gold Standard PBL's Essential Project Design Elements.
Planning Tools
For quick evaluation of a project's design, to check for Gold Standard PBL's Essential Elements.
Planning Tools
This rubric describes beginning, developing, and Gold Standard levels for Project Based Teaching Practices.
Product Toolkit
A social media campaign is a coordinated effort to use social media platforms to promote a message, product, or cause. These campaigns involve creating content such as posts, videos, and graphics designed to engage and inform an online audience.
Product Toolkit
A public service announcement (PSA) is a short, impactful message created to raise awareness or influence attitudes and behavior about a specific issue. PSAs often use visual and auditory storytelling to engage the audience and deliver a clear, memorable message.
Product Toolkit
A policy proposal is a formal document or presentation that outlines a recommended course of action to address a specific problem or need. It typically includes an issue analysis, proposed solutions, evidence supporting the recommendations, and an implementation plan.
Product Toolkit
A physical model or prototype is a tangible representation of an idea, object, or system. Models are used to visualize concepts, simulate processes, or communicate design ideas while prototypes serve as functional examples for testing and iteration
Product Toolkit
Event planning and hosting involve designing, organizing, and holding a gathering or activity for a specific audience and purpose. Events can range from small, focused workshops to larger-scale exhibitions, performances, or community celebrations.
Strategy Guides
Students conduct interviews as a part of many Project Based Learning experiences. In some cases, these interviews inform a design thinking process, in which students are working to identify the needs of a “client” or audience in order to inform a design, solution, or communication strategy.
Strategy Guides
Critique protocols are structured processes that guide students in giving and receiving high quality feedback. This guide offers strategies for implementing peer critique protocols that enhance learning and improve the quality of student work.
Strategy Guides
Effective preparation for presentations helps students build project management, collaboration, and communication skills and ensures that their presentations are high-quality and impactful.
Strategy Guides
Using models of quality work is a powerful strategy for Gold Standard Project Based Learning.
Strategy Guides
Norms are the agreed upon rules that build a productive, self-driven, and respectful culture. These norms, especially when co-created with students, can serve as the “north star” or guiding philosophy for all that happens in a classroom.
Strategy Guides
Helping all students (including English Language Learners) become fluent in the language of a project’s targeted content is an essential part of teaching in a PBL classroom.
Strategy Guides
Throughout a project—particularly during the build knowledge and develop and critique phases—students are engaged in extended work time to complete project tasks.
Strategy Guides
In designing projects, we strive to have students doing the work of the world. Inviting those who actually do that work in the world into your project can be extremely powerful.
Strategy Guides
Exit tickets are brief formative assessments and/or reflection routines that students complete and submit at the end of a lesson or class period. This guide includes strategies for using exit tickets to support assessment and reflection within the context of PBL.
Strategy Guides
A learning log is a tool that students use during the project to keep track of their questions and learning generated through their research. This guide offers strategies for teaching students to use learning logs to support inquiry throughout a project.