PBL in your Classroom
MOOC on SEG
Hello everybody,
I am Rositsa Mineva, ESL/EFL and technology teacher from Bulgaria. I am also a lifelong learner and traveller by heart. I love challenges and usually, I am not afraid to change whatever just to see what new comes and improve to better my teaching and learning. I am also a global classroom partner, eTwinning adviser for Bulgaria, Glogster ambassador and board adviser, EduBuncee ambassador. Happy to participate on that MOOC and improve PBL skills in my classroom and beyond.
It is interesting and fun, as my students love saying . I support my students with a lot of group work, learning through doing activities, educational drama. To engage them into learning process we often use multimedia and computer lab, interactive whiteboard, tablets and bee bot. Kids love technology and even they are still young some of them are involved in creating their own learning content using some easy web tools and apps. Beeing globally connected with classrooms around the world makes my students more motivated and active learners.
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about the PBL MOOC
Introducing Project Based Learning in your Classroom
Modul 1
Teacher Academy Course Intro
1. What is PBL and why use it
In Project Based Learning (PBL), students go through an extended process of inquiry in response to a complex question, problem, or challenge. While allowing for some degree of student “voice and choice,” rigorous projects are carefully planned, managed, and assessed to help students:
- Learn key academic content
- Practice 21st Century Skills such as collaboration, communication & critical thinking
- Create high-quality, authentic products & presentations
- Is organized around an open-ended driving question or challenge that focuses student work and deepens their learning by centering on significant issues, debates, questions and/or problems.
- Creates a need to know essential content and skills. Projects present students with knowledge and concepts that, once learned, are applied. PBL begins with the vision of an end product that requires learning specific knowledge and concepts, thus creating a context and reason to learn and understand the information and concepts.
- Requires inquiry to learn and/or create something new. Not all learning must be based on inquiry, but when used properly, inquiry should lead students to construct something new. For example: an idea, an interpretation, or a new way of displaying what they have learned.
- Develops critical thinking, problem solving, collaboration, and various forms of communication skills. Students do much more than remember information, they will use higher-order thinking skills. They will also learn to work as a team and contribute to a group effort. They will listen to others and make their own ideas clear when speaking, will be able to read a variety of material, write or otherwise express themselves in various modes, and make effective presentations. These competencies and habits of mind are often known as “21st Century Skills.”
- Allows some degree of student voice and choice. Students learn to work independently and take responsibility when they are asked to make choices. The opportunity to make choices and to express their learning in their own voice helps to increase students’ educational engagement.
- Incorporates feedback and revision. Students use peer critique to improve their work to create higher quality products.
- Results in a publicly presented product or performance. What you know is demonstrated by what you do, and what you do must be open to public scrutiny and critique.
Students gain a deeper understanding of the concepts and standards at the heart of a project. Projects also build vital workplace skills and lifelong habits of learning. Projects can allow students to address community issues, explore careers, interact with adult mentors, use technology, and present their work to audiences beyond the classroom. PBL can motivate students who might otherwise find school boring or meaningless.
1.2 Why use PBL
Propositions Project: 21st Century Skills
Question&Reply
Why you think PBL is not used more widely in our education systems? What is stopping us from achieving what is outlined in the video? What are the biggest challenges we as educators face and who is stopping us from adopting the PBL approach in our classrooms?
I think PBL is not used more widely in our education system because of lack of teachers' confidence in planning and managing interdisciplinary projects, lack of culture of collaboration between teachers, overwhelmed curricular, lack of resources or lack of knowledge about free online resources and lack of 21st competencies of teachers and students
The biggest challenges for us as educators is to create professional learning communities where to collaborate and train and share knowledge, experience and successful PBL practices.
I think PBL is not used more widely in our education system because of lack of teachers' confidence in planning and managing interdisciplinary projects, lack of culture of collaboration between teachers, overwhelmed curricular, lack of resources or lack of knowledge about free online resources and lack of 21st competencies of teachers and students
The biggest challenges for us as educators is to create professional learning communities where to collaborate and train and share knowledge, experience and successful PBL practices.