General PBL
Celebrating 700 Blog Posts – and Asking for Your Feedback
Our goals for the PBL Blog, and an invitation to tell us what you want to hear about.
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PBL and CTE
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Teaching Engineering the Way Engineers Work: Gold Standard PBL in a Detroit Classroom
At University Prep Science and Math High School in Detroit, engineering teacher Jack Pierick runs his Principles of Engineering and Conceptual Design classes the way real engineers work: start with a problem, prototype, test, and improve. Pierick's advice to teachers starting with PBL: expect things to go wrong, reflect after every class, and remember that reaching even one student makes it worthwhile.
Recent Blogs
How-to Tips and Tools
The Power of Apprenticeship in the PBL Classroom
How to use the workshop model and gradual release of responsibility to structure project work time.
Projects in Action
Lesson Learned: I Needed to Engage Students in a Voter Engagement Project
How using a design thinking approach led to a better project for students and teachers.
How-to Tips and Tools
3 Tips for Literacy in Project Based Learning: Challenges and Opportunities
3 tips for supporting students during a project who need to build reading, writing, listening and speaking skills.
Gold Standard PBL: Teaching Practices
Listening to Students Changed My Project Plans (for the Better)
How a PBL teacher learned a lesson about student voice and relinquishing control to follow students’ passions.
General PBL
Student Pushback Made Me a Better PBL Teacher
How a 9th grade history teacher re-thought his approach to the subject and a student created change in her school.
Projects in Action
Building a Strong Foundation: A Home-Design Math Project
A 5th grade teacher creates a project that surpassed expectations.
Projects in Action
I’m Your Biggest Fan: A Fan Fiction Writing Project
An ELA teacher creates a new PBL unit for her 8th graders, and sees the results.
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PBL World Keynote: Zaretta Hammond on Culturally Responsive Teaching
The author of Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain will be joining us in June 2020.