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A helpful article for those who are about to begin their journey in implementing PBL with great resources and ideas to put into play to ensure success in the PBL classroom!

great links that provide a lot of information about PBL.

Title A Newspaper Project: It's News to Me! The West Virginia Department of Education has produced a variety of well thought out comprehensives Projects, this is just one. High level of detail.

Checklists to support Project Based Learning and evaluation

A checklist to follow when creating a project that follows the PBL format.

Checklists to support Project Based Learning and Evaluation

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I appreciate the time Hewes takes here to review the literature relating not just to PBL but also the English classroom. Though it's in Australia, I think it's more than applicable to American classrooms and look forward to the results of the study. The primary focus appears to be the use of technology for PBL in the English classroom, since English teachers are now becoming teachers of multiple literacies.

Project-based learning is a great way for English Language Learners to develop content knowledge and language skills. When done correctly, teachers are able to leverage the students learning in both English and the students' native language.

To succeed in today's complex, dynamic, and globally connected world, students need to have a depth of understanding and learning that is far more than memorization and recollection of facts and figures. Rigorous project-based learning (PBL), as well as the skills and resources for achieving it, offers a promising pedagogical approach to helping all students succeed.

Before we get into the *Here are The big buzz word: power of PBL*, this is a good time to remind you that I'm a special education teacher in an K-5 elementary building. I work with a wide variety of students with disabilities (learning and nonspecific) in their classes, my resource room, small group, and one-to-one.

Project-based learning continues to be misinterpreted as a single teaching strategy rather than as a set of design principles that allow us to introduce the philosophy of inquiry into education in an intelligent and grounded way.

Upper Division students prepared for a talkshow exhibition about the experience of slavery and civil war through various viewpoints. Students were required to compare an aspect of slavery/civil war in America and in a Spanish-speaking country. For example, a student had to compare "life under slavery" in both America and Brazil.