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Project Based Learning

Create learning activities that are long-term, interdisciplinary, and student centered. Prepares students for academic, personal and career success

4 Design Principles

• Define learning appropriate goals
• Provide support: engage problems that lead to learning, teaching moments and technology support
• Self-assessment is embedded
• Social structures that promote participation and revision- creating a "learning Community"

Benefits of PBL

• Enhances quality of learning
• Leads to higher level cognitive development
• Encourages cooperative learning
• Engages and motivates students
• Builds habits of life-long learning

Challenges of PBL

• Can't teach basic skills
• Change in curriculum, instruction and assessment practices
• Challenging to manage student choices

Examples of PBL

• Geocaching
• Creating an app
• Write to a congressman
• Build bridges
• Ideas to reduce waste locally

Inquiry Learning

Students must accept an invitation to learn

5 E Learning Cycle Model

• Engagement
• Exploration
• Explanation
• Elaboration
• Evaluation

Engagement:
The task is introduced. Student makes connections facilitated between what the student knows and what the student can do.

Exploration:
Student is given hands-on activities. Questioning, sharing, discovering should be engaged.

Explanation:
The learner is encouraged to put observations, questions, hypotheses and experiences from the previous stages into language

Elaboration:
Inferences, deductions, and hypotheses can be applied to similar or real-world situations

Evaluation:
Should be ongoing and occurring in all stages.

Examples of Inquiry Learning

• Use big questions to guide discussions for concept
• For example: What makes a good president? to guide what makes a good leader
• Ask why events happened in history

Socratic Method

Discover the question
"WHY?"

Students think critically about difficult issues

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• Pick controversial topic & provide questions for students or have them develop them
• Leader leads conversation, participants engages

Role of Leader

• Keep topic focused
• Allow for equal time for all members
• Have students elaborate
• Clarify, synthesize and restate earlier opinions

Role of Participants

• Think & speak persuasively
• Use the discussion to support their opinion
• Listen closely
• Demonstrate respect for others ideas
• Do not interupt

Remember!

• There are no right answers
• Start with a good open-ended question
• Ask follow-up questions
• End goal is students should eventually be able to lead

Examples of Socratic Method

• Plan significant question for concept
• Ask student what they believe should happen in a story.
• Ask ideas, thoughts on social issues?
• Ask what would you do?

Created by Amanda DeVries