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?
A Day in the Life of a Project will help you to uncover the structure, practice, and processes of High-Quality Project-based Learning. You’ll start by looking at the general path of learning, before diving into a single day of a project. Then you will consider what you are already doing in your teaching practice to identify the next steps.
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.
We’ll take a look at a high level overview of the path of learning in a project.
Now that you have heard about the general flow of a project, it is time to look at what a project looks like on a given day. Below you will find 4 sample projects ranging in grade levels.
Pick two of the sample project below and then:
You have almost made it! But, we must build time for reflection as we learn. As the great progressive educator John Dewey said, "We do not learn from experience... we learn from reflecting on experience."
Let's take some time to reflect on what all of this learning means for each of us going forward. Take out your journal and reflect on the following prompt below.
What did you learn?
What do you want implement
in the future?
Where does it go in your upcoming unit plans in any subject?
Now that you have taken the time to reflect, we want to provide you with some resources to help make PBL part of your every day, not just at select moments of time. Look at the list of resources and check out at least two of them that seem of most interest.
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:
Congrats, you finished this module! Your next step is to implement a practical change that will make your class more project-based!