How-to Tips and Tools
A PBL Culture of Thinking: Routines
Why projects should focus on student thinking, not only the product, with sample thinking routines for each of the 4 phases of a project.
PBL Blog
A Lesson Learned On Working With Experts in PBL: How To Prepare Them and Your Students
In my second year of teaching, I had the opportunity to mentor a group of fifth-grade students as part of the IB Primary Years
Recent Blogs
How-to Tips and Tools
PBL Blossoms When You Grow Your Network
An elementary teacher gives 5 suggestions for a "PBL Support Team" including resource teachers, librarians, local organizations, and families.
How-to Tips and Tools
Using the Need to Know List as a Planning & Assessment Tool
Tips for sorting students' questions at project launch, and using the list to track progress during a project.
How-to Tips and Tools
Putting PBL into Practice: The Workshop Model
How to provide structure within a project with a framework for inquiry, drafting of work, and reflection.
How-to Tips and Tools
Making PBL Feel Less Foreign to Foreign Language Teachers
How to avoid 2 common traps and find the key to good project: authenticity.
How-to Tips and Tools
Overcoming a Math Challenge Using the Process Communication Model
How a teacher coached a young “math person” who struggled with the open-endedness of a project about starting a business.
How-to Tips and Tools
Making PBL Observer-Friendly
3 ways to help administrators, community members, or other teachers understand what they see when visiting a PBL classroom.
How-to Tips and Tools
PBL vs Product-Based Learning
How to avoid putting too much time and emphasis on creating the product in a project, instead of focusing on what students are learning.
How-to Tips and Tools
Making Time for Reflection in Our Projects
When to ask students to reflect, how to organize the process, and what questions to ask.