Blog Post #9

What Can Teachers and Students Teach Us About Project Based Learning?

Seven Essentials for Project Based Learning
The seven essentials are: a need to know, a driving question, student voice and choice, 21st century skills, inquiry and innovation, feedback and revision, and a publicly presented project.

Project Based Learning for Teachers
Project based learning helps students learn collaboration skills, critical thinking skills, and career and life skills. PBL meets stats standards and always have driving question. technology should be applied, anything from Popplet to Google Docs and any other online learning site or tool.

High School Teachers Meet the Challenges of PBL Implementation
In this video teachers had to learn a new way of teaching, they had to change what they had been doing for years. teachers had to think of ways to apply PBL to math and English. In the end they designed amazing PBL projects that students loved.

PBL: What Motivates Students
Almost all of the students in this video said what motivated him was what they would gain in the future whether it was a job or career, get a degree, and a house. They all said that in order to get these things they would have to do good in school and go to college. The students in this video also commented on what rewards they receive in school and how they like them.

Project- Based Learning: Success Start to Finish
In this video students presented their PBL projects. They also spoke on how they felt about this new way of learning, and had nothing but good things to say. They loved being able to learn in a new ways and they loved watching the presentations because they weren't required to do power points, they could do skits and other fun stuff.

Students can teach us about what works better for them as far as how they learn the best. They are able to show us if the methods we use interest them, helps them understand concepts, and if it gets them ready for standardized tests. Teachers can teach us that project based learning can help students learn in a fun yet informative way. They let students have input on what they are able to do and this allows the student to be more excited about school.