Goals for the day:
1. Identify the new Gold Standard Essential Design Elements and Teaching Practices.
2. Apply the Gold Standard Project Design Rubric to project examples, prototypes and/or actual PBL designs from the participants.
3. Reflect upon project designs using collaborative feedback protocols to calibrate what success looks like.
Description:
Are you using Project Based Learning as an instructional approach? Are you engaging your students in inquiry and problems through a project approach? This PBL 201 will take you deeper in understanding and implementing high quality PBL. Examine project artifacts and PBL designs as you reflect upon BIE's Gold Standard PBL Essential Design Elements and Teaching Practices. Participants are encouraged to also bring copies of their own project designs and/or artifacts for reflection upon successes/opportunities for growth in designing and implementing PBL with their students. Learn strategies to address challenges that teachers may face when implementing Gold Standard PBL so that you can engage all students in deep and engaging academic learning that results in student achievement.
Event Fee: $185 (includes a copy of the ASCD book - Setting the Standard for Project Based Learning: A Proven Approach to Rigorous Classroom Instruction)
Presenter: Jean Kugler, Buck Institute Certified Trainer, ESC Central Ohio