Building a PBL Culture

Module Overview

Please take a moment to review our module description, outcomes, and purpose. Consider: What are you hoping to learn, and what do you want to implement into your teaching?

“We do not exist through ourselves alone but through the environment that shaped us.” — Jean Renoir

Description

All students have greatness within them. If that greatness is to grow and thrive, it needs to have the right environment. Learn four strategies for cultivating a strong PBL culture with an emphasis on beliefs and values through a blend of videos and activities. Conclude with a reflection and commit to a next step.

Driving Question

How do I create a positive PBL culture?

Outcomes

  1. Uncover existing beliefs and values and connect them to the aspects of a positive PBL culture

Purposes

  1. Identify opportunities to shift and/or strengthen PBL culture
  2. To make connections to your own practice

Your Task

Now, on a sheet of paper or in your journal, write a question you hope to have answered by the end of the course based on our outcomes. Consider what would shift for you if you've answered this question.

Make sure you can find this question later and actively reflect on it throughout the module.

Your Inquiry Question

  1. What is the question you hope to have answered by the end of this course?
  2. What would shift for you if you’ve answered this question?

Your Next Stop...

Our first video introducing Build the Culture.

Build the Culture in High Quality Project Based Learning

Next Steps and Resources to Get Started

We have come to the final steps of the Build the Culture module. This module asked some big things of you. Stopping to name your values and beliefs isn’t always easy. They can be under the surface, unexamined, but they are there regardless. Thank you for stepping into the work with us!

This final reflection is in two parts. First, you will focus on your learning. Second, you will revisit the inquiry question you crafted at the beginning of the module. Let’s get started!

Reflect

Complete the Sentence stems:

I used to think _________________,
Now I think _________________.

Resources to Get Started

In the video, we mentioned additional routines and protocols. In addition to a host of other resources on Beliefs and Values, we’d like to specifically lift up the Visible Thinking Routines and School Reform Initiative. While the latter are designed for educators, they are easy to adapt for student use. Happy exploring!

High Expectations

Culture of Excellence

Growth Mindset

A Welcoming and Safe Classroom Environment

Returning to Our Initial Inquiry Question

At the beginning of this module, we introduced the module description, outcomes, and purpose and asked you to write a question that you hoped would be answered. While reviewing our outcomes and purpose, refer back to that question to answer the following prompt below:

Driving Question

How do I create a positive PBL culture?

Outcomes

  1. Uncover existing beliefs and values and connect them to the aspects of a positive PBL culture

Purpose

  1. Identify opportunities to shift and/or strengthen PBL culture
  2. To make connections to your own practice

Inquiry Question Revisited

  1. How would you answer your initial inquiry question now?
  2. What are your next steps in deepening your answer?
What's next...

That’s a wrap. Happy PBL culture building!

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