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PBL and Common Core StandardsFebruary 3rd, 2012If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!
The first question about Common Core Standards has been answered: What will they look like? The answer is: Very different. The internationally benchmarked standards will emphasize creativity, collaboration, critical thinking, presentation and demonstration, problem solving, research and inquiry, and career readiness.
2012: Rebalancing heart and brainJanuary 2nd, 2012
One way to describe the tumult of the past few years, as well as the year we’re about to enter—the momentous 2012—is imbalance. The world is out of whack, whether the topic is climate patterns, wealth distribution, political power, job opportunity, food availability, or life-work balance. Most of us experience a rushing sense of unease and a desire to get things back in order.
Seven Steps to High Quality PBLDecember 16th, 2011
In a recent ASCD post, I listed ten ways to teach innovation. By far, the most important item on the list is #1: Implementing high quality project based learning (PBL).
Ten Ways to Teach InnovationDecember 3rd, 2011
One overriding challenge is now coming to the fore in public consciousness: We need to reinvent just about everything. Whether scientific advances, technology breakthroughs, new political and economic structures, environmental solutions, or an updated code of ethics for 21st century life, everything is in flux—and everything demands innovative, out of the box thinking.
Teacher as Coach: The key to better projectsNovember 22nd, 2011
Our goal as PBL advocates is to design powerful projects. By powerful, I mean projects that fully engage students, offer a potent blend of skills and intellectual challenge, and prompt or awaken a deeper curiosity about life. Nothing less, I believe, is going to serve us in the decades ahead.
Establishing a PBL-friendly CultureOctober 31st, 2011
It’s surprising to me, but I see little discussion within education of why PBL succeeds. To experts in the field of human performance, however, there is no mystery. Three decades of research—including findings from youth development, organizational psychology, positive psychology, and emotional intelligence—has identified three core factors that maximize individual effort and the desire to achieve:
Want Better PBL? Use SEL.October 17th, 2011
An unfortunate legacy of the cognitive model that dominates education is the belief that everything important in life takes place from the neck up. This belief is the primary reason that many teachers struggle with PBL. At its best, PBL taps into intangibles that make learning effortless and engaging: Drive, passion, purpose, and peak performance. But peak performance doesn’t start with a standardized curriculum.
From Groups to Teams: The Key to Powering Up PBLApril 25th, 2011I don’t believe that we have yet tapped the true power of project based learning. Right now, PBL is still kind of a cool way to address standards and, too often these days, is simply coverage by another name. But its ultimate benefit is to help students think, learn, and operate in the new century by challenging them at deeper levels. That requires reversing the equation between skills and content: PBL is method for teaching students to find, process, understand, and share information, not a way to extend the industrial landscape of regurgitation and recall.
Why STEM Education Needs PBLMarch 13th, 2011STEM education—the focus on science, technology, engineering, and math—has become the choice du jour for educational reform and was prominently mentioned in President Obama’s State of the Union address. I’ve worked with several very successful STEM schools, so I like the trend. But I also see a tendency to regard STEM as ‘just another thing we do,’ instead of seizing the opportunity to further develop 21st century learning principles. Here are some of the pitfalls I’ve encountered… Late last spring I was asked to conduct a PBL workshop for teachers in a district that trumpeted STEM principles. But their definition of STEM? Every high school in the District had adopted an extra math course. Want Your Students College Ready? Use PBL!March 13th, 2011I notice that college readiness, always a hot topic, is getting hotter, for two reasons. One, the Obama administration has set a national goal of having the highest proportion of college-educated citizens in the world by 2020. And two, recent research reported by Education Week (12/23/2010) found that an average of two out of five college students are not equipped to handle the academic, financial, and social responsibilities of college. In other words, 40% of high school students aren’t ‘college ready.’
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