In Seven Essentials for Project- Based Learning, every project needs to be meaningful for the students and it needs to fill an educational purpose.
The seven essentials are:
1. A need to know
2. A Driving Question
3. Student Voice and Choice
4. 21st Century Skills
5. Inquiry and Innovation
6. Feedback and Revision
7. Publicly Presented Production
These steps can turn an assignment of an ordinary worksheet into a problem solving, very educational experience.
Project Based Learning for Teachers tells us about all that you can do with PBLPBL is an important tool when used with Common Core. Common Core is what needs to be taught, PBL is how you are able to teach Common Core. It explains how it ties in with common core standards and gives some benefits of using PBL over regular instruction in the classroom.
What Motivates Students, The performance management first details what children think their result will be when the make good grades. The later part shows what teachers use to reward students for good grades and behavior. There are all kinds of things that motivate them, like being told they did well and their visions of the future.
PBL in PE is an article that starts telling us about the six standards PBL easily meets. It also gives the students to be more creative in an area that they don't always get to be creative in. Pflug showed how high school kids helped middle school kids with the physical fitness. By using the six standards of physical education, the project benefited both age groups. They can meet higher fitness levels, and set their own goals.
Kristen,
ReplyDeleteYou were spot on each article. I can agree with you on the seven essentials, by turning them into problem solving instead of just a ordinary worksheet. As well as, PBL that ties into the Common Core.