Win with PBL!Cindy Rice

Van Buren High Schoolcrice@vbsd.us

What do we want business students to know and do?

Elements of PBL

Student Centered

Focused on standards, clear learning goals

Driven by questions: Essential, Unit, Content

Ongoing formative assessments, assess for learning

Project involves connected tasks and activities over a period of time

Real-world connections

Student Centered

Students demonstrate knowledge/skills through products and performances that are published, presented or displayed

Students think as they work on Bloom’s highest level

Variety of instructional strategies

Technology supports and enhances learning

Develop 21st Century Skills

Learning and Innovation 4 Cs

Creativity & Innovation Critical Thinking & Problem Solving Communication & Collaboration

Information, Media & Technology

Life & Career Skills Flexibility & Adaptability, Initiative, Social, Cultural,

Productivity & Accountability, Leadership, Responsibility

Types of Projects

Service Learning

Simulation/role play

Construction & Design

Problem-solving

Real-world learning experiences online with other learners

WebQuest

PBL 4-Step Process

Begin with the end in mind—ASSESSMENTS

Identify Standards-Goals for learning

Use questions to frame learning Essential-Big idea Unit-drive instruction & inquiry Content-standards based CCSS & our content

Design Activities—Connected and completed over time

Resources

Intel Teach Essentials Online Course http://www.intel.com/cd/corporate/education/apac/eng/au/teach/teach1/teach11/

course1/330711.htm

Intel Teach Essentials Course http://www.intel.com/education/teach/essential-course.htm

Partnership for 21st Century Skills http://www.p21.org/overview

Bloom’s Taxonomy http://www.odu.edu/educ/roverbau/Bloom/blooms_taxonomy.htm

Mrs. Rice’s Teacher Space http://teacher.vbsd.us/crice/