increasing relevance with project-based learning daniel gumarang school improvement facilitator, new...
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Increasing Relevance with Project-Based
LearningDaniel Gumarang
School Improvement Facilitator, New Tech High Schools
Los Angeles Unified School District
You know projects
• Projects are large activities completed after the students have been pushed through homework assignments, lectures, and readings.
• Usually a culminating event for a unit or semester.
Project
Writing Exercis
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TextbookActivity
TextbookActivity
Peer Edit
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Lecture
Project-Based Learning
•Students are pulled through the curriculum by a driving question or realistic problem that provides a “need to know” the material.
•Lectures and readings are integrated into the problem as the students need the information.
Rubric
Writing Exercis
eTextbookActivity
TextbookActivity
Peer Edit
WritingActivity
Lecture
EntryDocument
NEED TOKNOWS
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)
Examples of Project & PBL
Project PBL
Sound Pollution
Listen to different Listen to different sounds. Make a sounds. Make a graph and identify graph and identify features of common features of common sounds that are sounds that are disturbing to the disturbing to the ear.ear.
Identify 5 sound Identify 5 sound pollution in the pollution in the community. Form a community. Form a task force to task force to investigate the investigate the problems and propose problems and propose solutions for each.solutions for each.
GeometryObserve and measure Observe and measure various school various school buildings and buildings and record data.record data.
Design a “School of Design a “School of the future” with the future” with scale drawings and scale drawings and models, taking into models, taking into account the site and account the site and anticipated needs. anticipated needs. Present plan to Present plan to community experts.community experts.
Rubric
Writing Exercis
eTextbookActivity
TextbookActivity
Peer Edit
WritingActivity
Lecture
EntryDocument
NEED TOKNOWS
Entry Document
Builds a scenario
Outlines the problem
Defines roles and tasks
Sets expectations
Other Entry Document
• Webpage• Guest speakers• Newspaper/Magazine articles• Job announcements• Casting calls• Video
Now what?
Writing Exercis
eTextbookActivity
TextbookActivity
Peer Edit
WritingActivity
Lecture
EntryDocument
NEED TOKNOWS
What do you need to know?
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?
Essential Features
of an Entry Document
• Creates expectations• Sets parameters• NEED TO KNOWS• Introduce rubric
Rubric
Writing Exercis
eTextbookActivity
TextbookActivity
Peer Edit
WritingActivity
Lecture
EntryDocument
NEED TOKNOWS
Making expectations clearer with
rubrics
Assessment
Writing Exercis
eUse of Spreadsheets
Area
Peer Edit
Perimeter
Units of Measurement
EntryDocument
NEED TOKNOWS
Project vs. PBLPROJECT PROJECT-BASED
LEARNINGa culminating event after the unit has been taught traditionally
project is introduced at the beginning of the unit, not at the end
teach the material before the project is introduced
projects are real-world applications of the course content requiring students
students don’t know they need the information and therefore are not engaged in the learning process
The role of the teacher becomes a guide or coach to the student, who now has a need to know the course materials
Assessment
•It’s all in the presentation!
