The purpose of the Project Based Learning Conference is to create a collaborative working environment that allows teachers to define PBL as it realtes to them, explore and analyze curriculum and design a project for implementation.
Student WiFi – 3138844444
#PBLworkshop – twitter
Day 1 - 9am – 3pm:
Intro – Peter Cobb
Point of Strength collaborative activity -
Establishing our objectives
of collaboration and project planning
The Ideal Graduate – Mixed groupings
Lunch
The PBL Vernacular
Models and
The 10 Questions
Project Playground – working through a theoretical Project.
Day 2 - 9am – 3pm:
Working Title – Pitching ideas to colleagues using Questions 1 and 10.
Suggestions from colleagues – “Gallery Walk”
Content and Rigor – A tuning protocol that addresses the depth-breadth conundrum.
Prototype and Exemplar creation
Work Time and Lunch
Critique and Revision
-Collegial Coaching
-Using peers and community mentors to help improve student work
Project Polish
Day 3 – 9am – noon:
Final Product Exhibition/POL using the 10 Questions as a guide for short presentation.
Next steps and Evaluation