Tag: PBL

In this article, two educators from Avenues The World School in São Paulo share how a community-themed project gave their students genuine agency—with results that range from hosting science fairs to cooking breakfast for the school kitchen team.

Goal: to help a teacher come up with creative solutions to a thorny dilemma

There are two different questions I often hear from visitors to High Tech High that are both based on the same misconception about project-based learning.  The first is, “How much time should we be spending on PBL per week?” And the second is, “Is it still OK to give lectures?” The answer to both of these questions lies in the understanding that a project isn’t a specific kind of lesson, but rather a specific kind of unit.

Over the past decade I’ve attended 11 schools across the United States and Japan. I was born in San Diego, then my family moved to Yokohama, Japan when I was seven years old.

You don’t need to design a collaborative project in order to take part in a collaborative design process. 

Students strengthen their learning by practicing skills that may not fit directly into a project but build the foundation for authentic, high-quality work.

HTHGSE’s PBL Design Camp has adapted the design process to represent the cyclical nature of designing in education.

Self-understanding is one of the oldest and most venerated forms of wisdom; but it does not come easily.

Here are seven questions to help you develop an engaging and profound essential question.

With simple revisions, tuning protocols are also very useful in the classroom, helping students share their own ideas with peers for critique.