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Project-Based Learning: Teachers
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Project-based learning is a teaching and learning strategy that engages students in multifaceted activities that often include the development of a product or a performance. It consists of classroom activities that shift away from the classroom practices of short, isolated, teacher-centered lessons; instead emphasizing learning activities that are long-term, student-centered, and integrated with real world issues and practices. Project-based learning is ... defined as “an in-depth investigation of a real world topic worthy of children’s attention and effort.” Projects usually require many days and several steps. Cooperative learning is generally used, and projects are often interdisciplinary.
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In March 2005 High Tech High received a $250,000 grant from the California Department of Education to disseminate project-based learning methods to teachers in non-charter public schools. As part of the project, High Tech High teachers have documented successful projects to share with collaborating teachers from local districts and across the HTH network. The current volume presents the fruits of these labors. The aim is simple: to offer practitioners useful, easily adaptable models of real projects.
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ISTE has a website for teachers called Your Learning Journey (currently featured on the main page of the ISTE website), which is starting off this fall with a series of links to Project-Based Learning. It contains links, a blog, a wiki, and information about a new book on PBL. Check it out!
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Content standards drive Project-Based Learning and teachers take advantage of this instructional model to fulfill multiple learning objectives. At the elementary level, a 4th grade Social Science standard requires students to "describe the daily lives of the people native, and non-native who occupied the presidios, missions, ranchos, and pueblos." (Content Standards for Public Schools) Project Based Learning units can be developed to allow students to access the content and develop a deep understanding of the lives of those who lived in the California missions. The culminating project often ends with a student-created replica of their mission of choice. Their work is displayed for an intended audience of staff, parents, and community members.
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Incorporating video into the classroom allows teachers to appeal to students with different learning styles and fosters project-based learning, which engages students, improves their communication, critical thinking and problem solving skills. To support the increasing demand for video in the classroom, Pinnacle has incorporated its Pinnacle Studio Plus version 9 and Pinnacle Liquid Edition version 6.1 software into its Studio and Advanced Academic Toolkits. Key benefits of the Pinnacle Studio and Advanced Academic Toolkits include:
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Brooklyn, NY – Apr. 11, 2007 – An elementary school computer teacher who uses project-based learning to integrate technology into multiple curriculum areas is the Knowledge Adventure Teacher of the Year. Katarina Kupfer of P.S. 164 Caesar Rodney in Brooklyn, N.Y. was selected from a nationwide pool of candidates in the culmination of Knowledge Adventure's Teacher Awards Program.
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