Wednesday, June 6, 2007
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What is Project Based Learning?
Self-directed Project-based Learning
• Personalized work space and Internet access
• Personal Learning Plan for all students
• Technology-infused environment
• Individual/group projects complemented by multiple
teaching and learning approaches
• Highest workplace standards are the goal
• All students prepared for post-secondary education,
workplace and global citizenship
• Daily quiet reading
Small Learning Community
• Small communities (school and advisory)
• Full-time, multiage advisories of about 20 students
• Every student treated like an individual - No child left unknown
• Positive relationships – Respect and responsibility practiced and modeled
• Mentoring opportunities available for all students
• Student government supports decision making process (students on School Board)
• Students contribute to school and outside community, learning to value citizenship
Curriculum Continuum
• Standards-Based Projects
• Content Seminars
• “How-to Workshops”
• Interventions
• Enrichment
• Online-Learning Opportunities
Authentic Assessment
• Projects assessed with improvement opportunities
• Student presentations of projects connect them to their
community
• Student electronic portfolios
• Standardized testing to inform Personal Learning Plans
• Life skills gained
California State Standards
• A set of state required guidelines and minimum standards wich dictate what skills students should be learning at each grade level
• Students build on what they learn in previous grade-levels
• Initially advisors insure projects address state standards
• Eventually students insure projects address state standards using Project Foundry advanced options