Gold Standard PBL: Essential Project Design Elements
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WHAT: Gold Standard PBL: Project Based Teaching Practices
In Gold Standard PBL, projects are focused on students acquiring key knowledge. Traditional teaching practices remain, but are reframed in the context of a project.
Gold Standard PBL: Design Elements
Gold Standard PBL: Essential Project Design Elements
An overview of the 7 Essential Project Design Elements in the PBLWorks model for Gold Standard PBL. (Updated in 2020)
Projects in Action
Four Ways to Think about Authenticity - Through the Lens of Gold Standard PBL Videos
How to make learning experiences “real” or “real-world” for students.
How-to Tips and Tools
Combining The Gold Standard with 21st Century Technology
When it comes to implementing Project Based Learning in a meaningful and manageable way, The Gold Standard is, well, the gold
General PBL
Connecting the New High Quality PBL Framework & Gold Standard PBL
A comparison of the distinctions and alignment between two ways of describing PBL.
Scaling Gold Standard PBL Kentucky Initiative
About the PBL in Kentucky Initiative The Scaling Gold Standard PBL Kentucky initiative aims to scale high quality PBL to one-third
Gold Standard PBL: Design Elements
Gold Standard PBL: Public Product
PBLWorks National Faculty members discuss the importance of making students' work public, both during a project and at the end, and give examples of connecting with outside experts.
Gold Standard PBL Teaching Practices Videos
These videos focus on how teachers work with students to organize tasks and schedules, set checkpoints and deadlines, find and use resources, create products and make them public.
Gold Standard PBL Videos
These 7- to 10-minute videos show examples of Gold Standard PBL projects in action – across many grade levels, subject areas, and