Gold Standard PBL: Teaching Practices
5 Tips to Improve Your PBL Teaching
Basic “teacher moves” that can help teachers improve their PBL practice.
PBL Blog
Culture, Language, and Mathematics
Part of the beauty of the human experience is how people communicate with one another. Everyone has quirks in their choice of
Recent Blogs
PBL and Equity
Project- and Problem-Based Learning: Whose Problem Is It?
A report on the PBL World keynote address by a leader of Big Picture Learning, calling for educational equity and authenticity to students' lives.
General PBL
3 Ways to Ensure Project Based Learning Accelerates School Transformation
Author Grant Lichtman on how to avoid 3 pitfalls that could make PBL "just another piece of curriculum."
How-to Tips and Tools
The Power of Professional Presentations
A PBLWorks National Faculty member explains why making a presentation is an important skill, and offers advice for teaching students how to do them well.
How-to Tips and Tools
4 Guidelines for Facilitating Rigorous Kindergarten PBL
4 tips for finding authentic ideas for kindergarten projects instead of relying on fictitious simulations.
PBL and Equity
PBL for Equity & Inclusion of Students with Learning Disabilities
A case study of Warren New Tech High School which successfully include students with disabilities in their PBL program.
Project Based Online Learning: Meeting the Challenge
PBL is likely an ideal model of student-centered learning for blended and online environments.
Projects in Action
The “Living Is…” Podcast Project: Connecting Hamlet to Our Lives
Students create podcasts to answer the driving question, inspired by Shakespeare's Hamlet: What is the difference between living and existing?
How-to Tips and Tools
Roles in PBL: 3 Approaches For Organizing Group Tasks
One of the easiest ways to structure work is to provide roles for students during the project.