How-to Tips and Tools Making PBL Observer-Friendly 3 ways to help administrators, community members, or other teachers understand what they see when visiting a PBL classroom.
How-to Tips and Tools PBL vs Product-Based Learning How to avoid putting too much time and emphasis on creating the product in a project, instead of focusing on what students are learning.
How-to Tips and Tools Making Time for Reflection in Our Projects When to ask students to reflect, how to organize the process, and what questions to ask.
How-to Tips and Tools How I Meet the Needs of Students from Disadvantaged Backgrounds with PBL 6 tips for using PBL with students who are often disengaged from school--and an example of a motivating project focused on a local chemical factory.
How-to Tips and Tools Structuring the Chaos: Making PBL Feel Safe for New Teachers and Students A high school teacher offers 3 structures for managing the classroom during projects, to promote productivity, accountability, and overcoming obstacles.
How-to Tips and Tools The Only 3 Standards that Matter: Accountability for PBL Why teachers do not have to justify the value of PBL by linking every project to a long list of “covered standards” to check off.
How-to Tips and Tools The Importance of Student-Generated Questions in PBL Why transferring ownership of questions for inquiry from teacher to students is key to engagement, and how to generate better questions.
How-to Tips and Tools Scaffolding Student Thinking in Projects 3 tips: clarify learning goals, formatively assess and provide guided practice, and create space for thinking about thinking.
How-to Tips and Tools Scaffolding a Geo-Inquiry Film Project with Google Slides Facilitating high quality collaboration among students with Google Slides.
How-to Tips and Tools Easy on the Spices: Using the Right Technology to Support PBL Teaching A middle school instructional coach recommends tech tools to help with problems of practice in 3 Gold Standard PBL Project Design Elements.