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Project-based learning

• Long term Interdisciplinary student centered learning
• Centered around challenging questions
• Allows for students to work autonomously

Design features (PBL)

• Defining learning goals
• Providing support
• Multiple opportunities for formative self assessment
• Developing social structures that promote participation and revision

Project-based Learning (cont)

• Equal or slightly better pedagogy for producing gains in academic achievement
• Not appropriate for teaching basic skills

Student Challenges (PBL)

• Generating meaningful questions
• Managing complexity and time
• Analyzing and evaluating dat
• Developing logical argument to support claim

Teacher Challenges (PBL)

• Time
• Classroom management
• Control
• Support for student learing
• Assessment and assessment design

Inquiry Learning 5p's

• Engagement- facilitation between what students know and what they are learning
• Exploration- hands on activities with guidance
• Explanation- as new concepts are introduced clarity is sought
• Elaboration- As students learn they build on their skill
• Evaluation- students assess their knowledge, skills, and abilities

What this classroom looks like...

• Students are active participants in learning- they plan and carry out experiments
• Students raise questions
• Students critique their practices

What this classroom looks like...

• Teachers model behavior
• Teachers support content learning
• Teachers use multiple assessments
• Teachers act as facilitators

Socratic Dialogue

• Challenges students' assumptions
• Must ask "Why?"
• Have students think criticall
• Involves a lot of listening and following of dialogue in order to participate
• There must be respect
• There is a leader that maintains order and the par