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Using Roles in Teams
Effective teams require us to think carefully about the kind of work students will be doing throughout the project. What outcomes are most important? How can we utilize teams so students effectively reach those outcomes?
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Revisiting Need to Knows
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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Academic Vocabulary
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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Working With Outside Experts
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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Post Project Reflection and Feedback from Students
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.
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Preparing for and Conducting Interviews
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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Work Time
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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Forming Project Teams
As students work together on projects, they learn valuable skills for collaborating, managing group dynamics and conflict, and building on one another’s strengths.
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Gold Standard PBL: Project Based Teaching Practices
Overview of BIE's new model for teaching in a Project Based Learning environment.
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Turning Student Groups into Effective Teams
A guide to forming teams, helping them become effective, & using peer ratings to adjust grades.
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Main Course Not Dessert
This article distinguishes between PBL and lightweight "projects" and argues why PBL is essential.
This video features kindergarten student presentations of projects on stray animals.
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Katherine Smith School Kindergarten Presentations
Kindergarten students - mostly English learners - present their stray animals project.
This video has been translated into PORTUGUESE to explain project based learning
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Project Based Learning: Explained. (PORTUGUESE)
A short animated video that explains in clear language the essential elements of PBL.
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Project Based Learning: Explained
Essential elements of PBL, 21st century competencies, differences from traditional teaching.
This video showcases the use of PBL at a school in Albuquerque, New Mexico, which organizes its program around the fields of architecture, construction, and engineering
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PBL at ACE Leadership High School
ACE Leadership HS uses architecture, construction, and engineering projects to motivate and teach.
This animated video is translated into Mandarin and provides an overview of project based learning.
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Project Based Learning: Explained. (MANDARIN)
A short animated video that explains in clear language the essential elements of PBL.
This animated video is translated into French and provides an overview of project based learning.
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Project Based Learning: Explained. (FRENCH)
A short animated video that explains in clear language the essential elements of PBL.
This animated video is translated into Spanish and provides an overview of project based learning.
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Project Based Learning: Explained. (SPANISH)
A short animated video that explains in clear language the essential elements of PBL.
In this video, Napa New Technology High School teachers and students discuss the benefits of having an online portal for tracking students' learning experiences and teachers' feedback.
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21st Century Skills Assessment
Benefits of an online portal for tracking students' learning experiences and teachers' feedback.
A high school teacher uses strategies such as collaborative grouping, service learning, and interdisciplinary curriculum with her class of English Language Learners to improve English/native language fluency and critical thinking skills in this video
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PBL for ELL
A teacher uses strategies to improve English/native language fluency and critical thinking skills.