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Strategy Guides
How to use project walls to manage and display student learning in the classroom.
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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.
Build the Culture Screenshot
Teaching Practice Videos
The Buck Institute has created this short video to help explain the Project Based Teaching Practices in our model for Gold Standard PBL.
Teacher Erin Brandvold leads her students in a revolutions project in this video
Project Videos
PBLWorks Project Videos 2018: High School World History - Erin Brandvold, Impact Academy of Arts & Tech
Teacher Kimberly Head-Trotter leads her students in a Walk Through Nashville project in this video
Project Videos
PBLWorks Project Videos 2018: Middle School ELA/History - Kimberly Head-Trotter, McKissack MS, TN.
Teacher Cheryl Bautista leads her students in a project called Tiny Houses in this video
Project Videos
PBLWorks Project Videos 2018: Grade 3 interdisciplinary - Cheryl Bautista, Katherine Smith ES
Teacher Rayhan Ahmed leads his students in a water quality project in this video
Project Videos
PBLWorks Project Videos 2018: High School Chemistry - Rayhan Ahmed, Leaders High School.
Teacher Telannia Norfar leads her students in The Finance Project in this video
Project Videos
PBLWorks Project Videos 2018: High School Math - Telannia Norfar, Northwest Classen HS, OK
Strategy Guides
Thinking routines are structured protocols that guide students through intentional thinking processes. These routines offer frameworks that help students slow down, process their thoughts, make connections between ideas, and engage thoughtfully with their work.
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The workshop model is an apprenticeship approach to teaching that emphasizes structured learning in short, focused segments followed by student-centered practice and application.
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Revision plays a vital role in making PBL an iterative process that fosters deep learning and results in high-quality work. Revision enables students to reflect on their learning, incorporate feedback, and improve their work over time.
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Student choice is an essential element of high-quality Project Based Learning, one that fosters a sense of agency and independence in students by empowering them to take charge of their own learning.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.