Saturday, October 18, 2014

Blog Post #9


What Can Teachers and Students Teach Us About Project Based Learning?


As teachers it is our job to teach others the common core curriculum. Seven essentials for project based learning is a great article that teaches provides the seven essentials for PBL. The seven essentials are a need to know, driving question, student voice, 21 st century skills, inquiry, and feedback. Tony Vincent created this video to help teachers understand what project based learning is to teachers. It's a fun video to get you pumped about incorporating PBL into your curriculum. Ideas for PBL can be obtained from your PLN and trial and error by yourself. It's important that teachers have PLN's so they can share their experience while learning about what others have done and like. A group of teachers at  Sammamish High School in Washington got together to discuss their trial and errors and opinions on PBL. They tell what works for them and what doesn't. Creating relationships with your coworkers are a great way to tackle the new way of teaching. These sites are a great tool to use when you start incorporating PBL.  It is great source to put in your PLN. It gives you ten sites and describes each one of them. These sites are mostly for group work and allows students to do as group. 


Students give their ideas and what they like to do during class time. This gives the teacher ideas on what majority of their students like and are interested in. Kids enjoy getting rewards for doing great on an assignment. These students express their motivation in the classroom. They discuss what they like and what their teacher does to help motivate them on learning. PBL is for the kids so why not direct it around what interest the students. Students give us ideas on what they are interested in and what they want their classroom to be like everyday. 



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