Project-Based Learning
10 Simple Lesson Plans for Scaffolding Student-Led Projects
From tips on assessment to how best to involve adult mentors, this is a guide for anyone who wants to lead student-led and student-centered projects in the classroom. The curriculum, adopted from Youth Engaged in Leadership & Learning, is broken down into 10 simple lessons-- to scaffolding student-led projects and create engagement and student ownership of learning.
How Project-Based Learning Prepares Youth for Freelance Nation
Young people that decide against the freelance economy and land good jobs with organizations are likely to do most of their work in projects. Other than low skill/low wage tasks, it’s quickly becoming a project-based world.
3 Ways to Teach Everything Through Inquiry
If inquiry-based teaching is superior to traditional teaching, could or should it replace the way we teach everything to everyone? In inquiry teaching, the learner constructs meaning from new information and experiences.
9 Resolutions & 9 Resources for Your Project-Based Learning Classroom This Year
It's a new year. Here are 9 resolutions and 9 resources for your project-based learning classroom for 2016 and beyond. Resolve to involve adult mentors, activate student choice, teach project management and calendaring skills and more. This blog shows you how with resolutions and new resources to make it work.
Project-Based Learning Models the Work World
Why we need to do a better job of preparing students for a project-based world. The importance of the art of breaking down complexity for a team to get their arms around and linking the parts together to create something where nothing had been.
Quality Work + Project-Based Learning at Katherine Smith Elementary
Located in a low income neighborhood behind a strip center in the Evergreen School District in East San Jose, Katherine Smith is a great example of what happens when you have a dedication to community, a drive for excellence and an innovation mindset.
Opportunity: The Heart of Passion-Based Learning
I am forever grateful to these teachers for all they instilled in me, and these creative opportunities now constitute the very heart of one of my favorite projects offered to students in "Studio 113" -- The Crucible Passion-Based Contract. Here are some of the recent opportunities and the results.
Enriching the Path to Wisdom
By: Bob Lenz and Jonathan Raymond. Project-based learning schools are enriching the path to wisdom, ensuring that students have access to engage in relevant and authentic project based work, are exposed to work in the real world and are learning social and emotional skills that support college and career readiness.
The Many Ways Personalized Learning Plays out in Education
From Project based to blended and even GenDIY. There are many ways personalized learning plays out in education and there's been a shift in the way people are talking about innovation. Recognition of the potential of innovation to help close achievement gaps, boost access and better prepare students for college and career is growing.
8 Online Learning Trends that are Changing the Learning Landscape
Seeking access to more and better learning opportunities, a state official called and asked about next generation of K-12 online learning. We see eight trends--some emerging from k-12 providers, some from HigherEd--improving online learning.