PBL Blog

A 5th grade teacher tells about a project about protecting sharks, and how a structured process for reflection revealed the depth of her students’ learning.

The contributions of the Chief Academic Officer of EL Education, former PBL teacher, and author of the seminal PBL book, An Ethic of Excellence.

A PBLWorks National Faculty member and high school teacher tells how she created a women’s studies course, with authentic projects linked to current events and suggested resources.

An award-winning kindergarten teacher tells how she developed authentic projects based on student passions, then launched a company to support PreK-2 teachers.

An explanation of how PBL differs from what high-achievers are used to, but benefits their learning. This also addresses concerns about group work and preparation for college.

An elementary school teacher tells how she starts with the standards, connects subject areas, and collaborates with colleagues to map out interdisciplinary PBL units for the year.

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.