PBL Blog

3 ways to help administrators, community members, or other teachers understand what they see when visiting a PBL classroom.

How to avoid putting too much time and emphasis on creating the product in a project, instead of focusing on what students are learning.

When to ask students to reflect, how to organize the process, and what questions to ask.

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.

A high school teacher offers 3 structures for managing the classroom during projects, to promote productivity, accountability, and overcoming obstacles.

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.

Why transferring ownership of questions for inquiry from teacher to students is key to engagement, and how to generate better questions.

3 tips: clarify learning goals, formatively assess and provide guided practice, and create space for thinking about thinking.

Facilitating high quality collaboration among students with Google Slides.

A middle school instructional coach recommends tech tools to help with problems of practice in 3 Gold Standard PBL Project Design Elements.