PBL Blog

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.

PBLWorks Editor in Chief John Larmer recaps a classic article from 1991 about urban education, race, and control-based schooling—and finds parallels between the author’s call for “good teaching” and Project Based Learning.

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.

PBLWorks Editor in Chief John Larmer recommends and links to recent articles, blog posts, research studies, and other resources related to Project Based Learning.

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.

The story of how two elementary school teachers, from North Dakota and Michigan, connected on Twitter to design similar PBL units on erosion and connected their students, to build collaboration and communication skills.

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.