Project-Based World
In this year-long campaign titled “It’s a Project-Based World,” Getting Smart explored the economic realities of a project-based world as part of the equity movement to ensure all students are prepared for college, career and citizenship. The purpose of this project was to promote equity and access to deeper learning outcomes for all students. We cultivated a blog series exploring topics around the preparation of students, teachers and leaders for a project-based world. In addition to the blog series, the campaign included podcast interviews, publications, infographics and speaking engagements. For more see our It’s a Project-based World campaign page.
Preparing Teachers for Project-Based Learning
One important aspect of teacher preparation today is project-based learning. Here are five reasons we feel teachers should be PBL prepared and five key practices of a PBL teacher.
Teaching is a Project-Based Profession: 10 PBL Teacher Mindsets
Today's teachers who are training students (and our eventual future employees) have a great task at hand preparing students to successfully manage projects. Here are 10 mindsets successful project-based teachers have.
Project-Based Teaching: The Untamed Spaces of Innovation
By: Jill Ackers-Clayton. Our challenge as educators is to determine what we need in order to provide the right environment where the collision between real-life context and real-life content are happening for our kids.
Project-Based Learning Can Fuel Tomorrow’s Workforce
By: Jim Postl. We're facing a serious skills gap crisis in this country. Implementing project-based and deeper learning with today's students can help bridge this need and fuel tomorrow's workforce.
It’s Not Just About the Projects
By: Kaleb Rashad. When it comes to implementing project-based learning, it's not just about the projects but also about engaging the hearts and minds of the learners involved.
13 Tips for Students Getting Started with Project-Based Learning
The reality is that today's students are heading into a new economy and a vast technological change. We created this quick start guide for students to encourage them to take action and learn through project-based learning.
Where Friday Night Lights Meets Project-Based Learning
By: Grant Ryerse. Participating in a fundraising project for cancer research at my school helps me positively impact my community and myself through project-based learning.
It’s a Project-Based World. Let’s Prepare Students for It.
By: Bonnie Lathram, Bob Lenz and Tom Vander Ark. In this paper we discuss the need to provide today's students access to high-quality project-based learning for future success.
Preparing Students for a Project-Based World
"Preparing Students for a Project-Based World" describes how the new economy and growing inequities are impacting students and schools, and explores what we need to be doing to better prepare students for future success.
Developing Minds Ready for the Innovation Economy
The best preparation to help today's students to succeed in a future innovation economy would be non-routine assignments requiring the application of knowledge to challenging problems--also known as project-based learning.