PBL Blog

Tips from a veteran PBL high school teacher on how to handle assessment in projects, and the tricky issue of grading.

On the first day of the Global Climate Strike week, here are some ideas and resources to help teachers do projects about the topic.

A teacher tells how she taught Spanish effectively by using authentic projects—and rethinking her textbook.

A high school teacher of A.P. Environmental Science redesigns his course to include PBL. Includes a sample project, with student work.

A PBLWorks National Faculty member tells how she built a classroom culture for PBL, from the start of the year and beyond.

How the 5 steps in the design thinking process align with PBL—and how making students aware of it could help them in job interviews.

A list of tech tools teachers and students can use to support each of the 6 criteria in the Framework for High Quality PBL.

A high school teacher explains how she scaffolds students’ academic conversations, collaboration skills, and understanding of “productive struggle.”

Ideas for developing relationships, co-creating norms, practicing protocols and establishing routines, and designing a classroom conducive to PBL.