PBL Blog

In a computational thinking and coding project, teachers taught collaboration and communication skills by having students define good teamwork, set roles, make agreements about how to work together, engage in team-building strategies, and use a collaboration rubric.

Many resources are available now to help jump-start a teacher’s practice of PBL, but how do you know if they’re good? PBLWorks Editor in Chief John Larmer offers 10 questions to consider when choosing a project to adapt.

A closer look at the need to better teach students how to read informational text, and how to do meet this important goal all 4 phases of a project.

An instructional coach tells how teachers have student teams use a tool from the business world to take ownership of their work in projects.

How a school created a tool to guide professional development for PBL teachers seeking to make their projects more authentic.

Suggestions for scaffolding student agency in PBL, giving students greater control as they gain experience with independent work.

A math teacher and PBLWorks facilitator explains how to turn “dessert projects” you find online into Gold Standard PBL units, and how to identify standards that can be the focus of PBL units.

Author and former middle school teacher John Spencer offers 5 strategies for preventing project fatigue, when students hit that ”mid-way lull” during a PBL unit.

Leaders of a PBL a school offer 6 tips from their experience and call for investing in targeted, sustained professional development.

An excerpt from the book Project Based Teaching, with several examples of strategies teachers can use to build a productive PBL culture in the classroom.