PBL Implementation Tips from the Field Webinar Series
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2. Better with Practice: PBL Implementation Tips from the Field A group-sourced webinar series about making the most of project-based learning. Three sessions, each repeated at 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. PST February 18 How to Create a Culture of Inquiry March 4 Keeping Your Project on the Rails March 11 It’s Not Over When It’s Over: The Project Spiral
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4. Let’s Warm Up: Discuss in the chat… How do your projects connect to the world?
5. Better with Practice: PBL Implementation Tips from the Field Your Hosts Suzie Boss and Sponsor Jane Krauss
6. PBL ~ Better with Practice Today’s Guests George Mayo Visual Literacy Teacher Bethesda, MD Connie Weber Emerson School Ann Arbor, MI Zac Chase Science Leadership Academy Philadelphia PA
10. Act 1: Food for Thought Jeff Wardlaw on successive improvement: I find it very valuable to get feedback from the students on what worked and what didn't, then incorporate those suggestions to help improve the project the next time around. Their suggestions have helped to refine projects over the years, as their perspectives often are quite different from my own, and help me to keep projects centered on student needs .
He looks like a cross between Eric Stotz and Ewan McGregor and Kenneth Branagh.
Again, the conversation in the Classroom 2.0 group helped us focus on these themes.
Jane - What does it mean to you? "Spiraling" can mean: ...connecting one project to the next ...reflectively, continuously improving projects so they get improve each year ...including others in projects ...shaping a community of practice, building a school culture for pbl and as George learned from our buddy Chris Lehmann - ...spiraling beyond the school to make a difference in the world.
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Small stitching projects, compounding, anchoring, connecting -
Jane Intro Zac Chase - Teaches 11 and 9th grade english - School is changing and growing so Teachers are too
Took it last year, it’s a work in progress, leads to capstone projects
Guiding principle, overarching idea that ties the throughlines together
Suzie introduces. Focus on projects has evolved, sent him on this spiral and he gathers others up.
Film festival
He’s built a network
Jane - revisiting. What to keep, how to use, guests speak, people ask.
Conversation. - Maybe we could describe the different aspects of spirals Jane - What does it mean to you? "Spiraling" can mean:...connecting one project to the next...reflectively, continuously improving projects so they get improve each year...including others in projects...shaping a community of practice, building a school culture for pbland as George learned from our buddy Chris Lehmann -...spiraling beyond the school to make a difference in the
We’d like to spiral out and grab more people up into our tornado.