Photo by Neil Thomas on Unsplash I have been in the education field, as a student and as an educator, for the past 24 years. For roughly the past 12 years, the concept of project based learning has been growing in popularity. I have experienced it as a student, and I have employed it in my classrooms. I have also largely taught in schools with traditional curriculum.Read More…
There are many misconceptions around project based education, and one of them is that you have to change your entire teaching style in order to implement it! This simply isn’t true! As I discussed in a previous article about types of project based learning activities, there are many different ways to implement project based learning principles in the classroom. Because of this, therRead More…
As I dive down this rabbit hole that is project/task based learning, I am finding more and more that this type of learning (or desire to teach this way) is actually more prevalent than most people realize. First of all, there are the numerous terms used for essentially the same type of learning, such as; Project Based Learning 🔹Task Based Learning 🔹Problem Based Learning 🔹ExperientiaRead More…
6 quick ways to implement project based learning activities. In my last couple posts I talked about why project based learning activities are worthwhile, and about 4 different types of project based learning activities. If this is not something that comes naturally to a person, it can be understandably confusing. There are still a lot of questions, such as, “How do I know what real-world scenRead More…