Project-Based Learning
(PBL) is an instructional approach where traditional, direct classroom instruction and tests are replaced by authentic, often interdisciplinary projects, usually designed by the student with guidance from instructors/coaches, addressing real-world problems as the assessment instead of a test. It also is closely related to deeper learning, challenge-based learning, interest-based learning and more.
What Educators Need to Effectively Teach About the Holocaust
By: Ivy Schamis. Holocaust education helps to create compassionate young adults, which is a vital step in preventing and combating the existence of hate in our world.
Why Your Community Needs an Environmental Sustainability Coordinator
This Seed To Table program offered in a southern California school demonstrates the potential of compelling community-connected learning.
Why Schools Should Promote Applied Learning
By: Mark Siegel. Schools should promote applied learning—learning through experience—to help students develop transferable problem-solving skills. Here’s how.Â
Providing the Right Learning Spaces for Students to Explore and Create
Five ideas for learning spaces that create an environment that can empower students to explore passions and real-world problems.
Getting Clearer: Culturally Responsive Pedagogy
Practicing culturally responsive pedagogy helps form communities of learners that care authentically, learn deeply and actualize fully.
24 Goals to Save the Planet (+1 in Case We Don’t)
Studying the Global Goals students can develop leadership and problem-solving skills, and identify how they can become difference makers.
iLEAD Schools Creating Authentic, High Quality Project-Based Learning Environments
iLEAD Schools are offering deeper and more personalized inquiry-based learning, fueled with a rich culture, creativity and commitment to necessary elements that facilitate high-quality project-based learning for all students.
Hand in Hand: Exploring Bilingual, Multicultural PBL
A primary school in Israel is helping to bridge cultural gaps between people who have historically been in conflict with one another through bilingual and multicultural project-based learning.
Engaging Online Learners in Real-World Problem Solving
ASU Prep Digital offers innovative and high-quality learning opportunities by engaging online learners in real-world problem solving.
2020 New Year’s Resolutions: Changes in Practice to Benefit the Whole Child
We can create the best learning environment for students if we take the time to reflect, reconsider and reimagine our teaching practices.