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Strategy Guides
The need to know questions that initiated inquiry at the beginning of the project are central to students’ learning as they follow the project path. Need to know questions are revisited throughout the project in order to track learning and support sustained inquiry.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Thumbnail of this downloadable resource called Preparing for and Conducting Interviews
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.
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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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As students work together on projects, they learn valuable skills for collaborating, managing group dynamics and conflict, and building on one another’s strengths.