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Increasing Relevance with Project-Based Learning

Increasing Relevance with Project-Based Learning. Daniel Gumarang School Improvement Facilitator, New Tech High Schools Los Angeles Unified School District. You know projects.

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Increasing Relevance with Project-Based Learning

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  1. Increasing Relevance with Project-Based Learning • Daniel Gumarang • School Improvement Facilitator, New Tech High Schools • Los Angeles Unified School District

  2. You know projects

  3. Projects are large activities completed after the students have been pushed through homework assignments, lectures, and readings.

  4. Usually a culminating event for a unit or semester.

  5. Lecture Peer Edit Writing Activity Project Lecture Textbook Activity Writing Exercise Textbook Activity

  6. Project-Based Learning

  7. Students are pulled through the curriculum by a driving question or realistic problem that provides a “need to know” the material.

  8. Lectures and readings are integrated into the problem as the students need the information.

  9. NEED TOKNOWS Peer Edit Writing Activity Entry Document Rubric Lecture Textbook Activity Writing Exercise Textbook Activity

  10. Project-Based Learning is effective because: • Learning is partly a social activity • Learners actively use what they know and build on it • It reflects the environment in which we live and learn (plan, collaborate and communicate)

  11. Examples of Project & PBL

  12. NEED TOKNOWS Peer Edit Writing Activity Entry Document Rubric Lecture Textbook Activity Writing Exercise Textbook Activity

  13. Entry Document Builds a scenario Outlines the problem Defines roles and tasks Sets expectations

  14. Other Entry Document • Webpage • Guest speakers • Newspaper/Magazine articles • Job announcements • Casting calls • Video

  15. Now what?

  16. NEED TOKNOWS Peer Edit Writing Activity Entry Document Lecture Textbook Activity Writing Exercise Textbook Activity

  17. What do you need to know?

  18. Need To Knows • Floor and wall covering? • What is interior design? • How to calculate area & perimeter? • Material & labor cost? Cost analysis? • Vice President, Human Resources?

  19. Essential Featuresof an Entry Document • Creates expectations • Sets parameters • NEED TO KNOWS • Introduce rubric

  20. NEED TOKNOWS Peer Edit Writing Activity Entry Document Rubric Lecture Textbook Activity Writing Exercise Textbook Activity

  21. Making expectations clearer with rubrics

  22. NEED TOKNOWS Peer Edit Perimeter Entry Document Assessment Area Writing Exercise Units of Measurement Use of Spreadsheets

  23. Project vs. PBL

  24. It’s all in the presentation! Assessment

  25. End of Presentation daniel.gumarang@lausd.net www.newtechfoundation.org

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