Are Students ‘Doing Projects’ Or Learning Through PBL?
Project-based learning is not just doing projects, it’s students learning through the work of a project and that’s a critical distinction.
Author: Drew Perkins
Formerly with the Buck Institute for Education and the Collaborative for Teaching and Learning after 15 years of classroom teaching. Passionate about the leading of learning through inquiry, I have been called a professional thought stretcher due to my love for questioning.
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Good Teachers Stick To The Lines, Great Teachers Inspire New Lines
Great teachers go beyond being ‘good’ by leveraging student curiosity to spark beautiful questions and profound thinking.
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Ep. 80 A Deep Dive Into Equity Through Assessment And PBL
Drew Perkins talks with JuanCarlos Arauz of E3 Education as a second part to their recent conversation about equity and education.
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7 Questions To Guide Your PBL Implementation Plan
Ideally PBL implementation isn’t isolated from teachers, students, parents and others who will be engage in this pedagogical shift.
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Want To Help Teachers Grow? 5 Tips To Be A Better Facilitator
So what makes for a quality facilitator of professional development? It’s complex, but here are a few tips.
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Making Thinking Visible: The Story Of A Sketchnoter
Making Thinking Visible: The Story Of A Sketchnoter contributed by Reshan Richards Before I even learned about sketchnoting, Explain Everything was available on the App Store for almost 2 years. I was at a conference for Apple Distinguished Educators and Brad Ovenell-Carter from Vancouver was posting these amazing, visually engaging images on Twitter with the…
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How Great Teaching And Learning Grow Under The PBL Umbrella
Growing Great Teaching And Learning Under The PBL Umbrella Framework contributed by Drew Perkins “You mean I have to throw out all the work that I’ve done to refine my teaching over the years?” Our PBL workshop facilitators hear this question, or something similar, with regularity and the answer is, NO! We certainly understand the nervousness…
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The Thing About Homework
Ideally, assigned homework should be less frequent and hopefully more personalized to the needs of the student and their ongoing work and growth.
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Using Project-Based Learning To Flip Bloom’s Taxonomy For Deeper Learning
A central feature of high quality PBL is the pedagogical relationship between the Driving Question and the “Need to Knows” that stem from it.
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5 Barriers To More Authentic Teaching And Learning
The pieces and parts of most schools and school days looks eerily similar to what many of us experienced decades ago but with advanced tech.
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20 Questions That Schools Should Ask About Professional Development
You want to avoid pointless PD, & sometimes you can’t please all the people all the time, but here are 20 questions to get you started.
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7 Characteristics of Great Professional Development
What are the characteristics of great professional development for teachers? It starts with training that actually improves their teaching.
