Below is the link to a video about Project Based Learning. Please reflect on the questions below and talk with your colleagues about their thoughts. We will discuss this video and your answers to the questions at our next meeting.
1. One of the students in the video said, "I learn better by learning from my own experiences." Do you believe this is true? If so, how do you facilitate this in your classroom? If not, explain why you feel that way.
2. As the professor from MIT is talking about curriculum, he says, "this means that you put kids in a position to use the knowledge they gain." Describe at least two ways you do this in your classroom that does not involve tests or quizzes.
3. Describe the differences between a traditional setting classroom and a project based learning classroom.
Miles B. Adams
ReplyDelete1.--We agree that students learn better from their own experiences because it enables them to apply what they have learned, which ultimately helps them to retain it.
--We incorporate group projects into our lessons as a method of both engaging and assessing our students. Students have the option to work individually or collaboratively. Most students choose to work in groups which helps to facilitate peer interaction and collaboration.
2. --Projects, Polling, Anticipation Guides, Peer Problem solving, Journals
3. --Traditional: Teacher instructs and then tests the students at the end of the lesson. It is usually teacher lead with minimal group work.
--Project based: Students create a product that demonstrates what they have learned.
It would be great to see some of these great ideas being used in the classroom. We could all learn from each other.
Delete1 - Yes - as teachers, we should give our students the base knowledge and tools to work with in order to later present students with different (new) scenarios for which they are capable of working through.
ReplyDelete2 - Math - show students the "norm" and have students find the exceptions to those norms. FACS and Math - students working together (small groups or larger) to create presentations of their findings.
3 - Traditional: lecture and teacher demonstrated. PBL: teacher facilitates, provides objectives, students demonstrate using a rubric.
Create product that demonstrates what you have learned using knowledge provided.
Bowen, Cardwell, Flynt
We agree to a certain extent. We would like to incorporate our lessons so that our students can discover on their own specific aspects of the topic. (Cooperative Learning)
Delete"Create product that demonstrates what you have learned using knowledge provided." This was also our definition of project based learning.
We are all own the same page - how are we going to do this as a school????
ReplyDeleteCollaborate and communicate through PD more.
Delete1. Yes, by using projects to get students engaged in the material.
ReplyDelete2. 1. Creating Projects
2. Journals
3. In a traditional classroom the students are seated in straight rows and passively listen to a teacher who stands at the front and lectures.
In a PBL classroom the chairs are arranged, lessons are student centered, students are familiar with group work procedures and are actively engaged in the material.
Stevens, Shields, Poplin