Project Based Learning
The research is extremely positive about the value of Project Based Learning for both students and teachers. The challenge is that for many teachers PBL is foreign, intimidating, and even scary. Teachers have “heard about” PBL, but the overwhelming majority have had no extended opportunities to learn about, be trained in, and then be supported to engage in PBL. The SIC is designed to rectify this.
Where are you on the PBL timeline?
In-Class Activities
Group Work
PBL
Lecture
Projects
Community Based Learning
What do students think about PBL?
This graphic was created by Chabot Students to illustrate the movement along a spectrum of teaching. It is not meant to privilege one kind of teaching over another—rather it is intended to demonstrate how these different teaching styles relate to, and support each other.
Excerpted from a Literature Review of PBL that Chabot English
instructor Monique Williams compiled as part of a FIPSE grant application.
Practical and helpful guidance for teachers who are contemplating what kind of workshops they want to present at conferences or similar events.
It is not always easy to create conditions on a college campus that support robust PBL experiences. This document shares tactics for favorably impacting college climate for PBL.
How and why we might want to create projects that WOW our audience.
PBL is more than just a way to teach. It is also a mindset, a philosophy, a way of considering education.
Michael Fielding, one of the foremost advocates for Student Voice, created this enlightening table that plots the movement of students from being passive recipients of education to being dead center in the middle of democratic change on campus.
Questions, prompts, and advice about how to get started doing PBL in your classroom.
A buffet of PBL activities that range from fast and simple to execute, to those that take more time and involvement.
