Project-Based Learning
3 Back to School Project-Based Lessons for Middle School
By: Amber Chandler. Starting the school year with a project based learning activity will set the perfect tone for your classroom. Here are three lessons that have and generate BAM -- burning questions, authentic audiences and millennial skills.
10 Powerful Project-Based Learning Engagement Strategies
Student engagement is key to motivation, persistence, and deeper learning. In addition to our recently featured 22 instincts that motivate a commitment of time and energy, here's 10 strategies to promote powerful project-based learning experiences.
Information is the Key to Data-Driven Teaching
By: Lucy Kosturko. Supporting data-driven teachers means providing the right resources to allow teachers to make decisions based on information, not just data. This can have the real world impact and personalize learning in ways that support teachers and students.
5 Tips for Teaching Project-Based Debate in Middle School
By: Amber Chandler. Project-Based debate is a powerful tool to teach many high impact skills that students need to be successful -- research, persuasion, argumentation, speaking and listening skills, and use of evidence.
5 Projects for Your Project-Based Learning Classroom This Year
By: Lucy Kosturko. Devising PBL lessons takes determination and time. A lot of time. Teachers must manage several moving parts and devote a significant amount of class time. Curriculum Pathways has supplemental tools and resources. Here’s a small sample of five.
Why We Should Worry Less About the Achievement Gap
We need to revolutionize math perceptions if we want to close the experience gap and eliminate its most evident symptom: the achievement gap.
A Smart Planet: Dispatches from PBL World
Transforming education in the US and around the globe was the focus of Friday at PBL World. This got Bonnie thinking about her former students in Tanzania and the United States. How we create educational opportunities for all to transform learning is one of our paramount challenges.
10 Conversations at PBL World Focus on Students, Learning
From student-centered learning to parenting for powerful learning to all the new tech tools you could use, PBL World has it all. Here we bring you the top 10 conversations we had yesterday in case you missed it.
Top 5 Tweets to Kick off PBL World
Want to learn how to design better projects for and with your students? Want to know how to manage all those student projects? What are the best ways to assess student learning in projects? Want to meet some of the smart people doing the work in US and internationally?
PB”What the hel”L?
By: Riley Johnson. Why PBL is a process, provides a framework to participate in what students are asked to do, and how it can take student voice and choice to new levels.