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This article from the Journal of STEM Education presents teachers (who don't normally experience what is like to work in fields outside of education) who took part in externships in STEM jobs so they could learn for themselves exactly the types of scenarios their students might encounter. The results drove authenticity in their PBL teaching. I think it's important for teachers to truly understand these demands, and not just read about them. If we provide these contextualized environments for our students because we believe it's best for their learning, why don't we work toward providing those same experiences for ourselves? Bowen, B., & Shume, T. (2018). Educators in Industry: An Exploratory Study to Determine how Teacher Externships Influence K-12 Classroom Practices. Journal of STEM Education, 19(1), 5-10.

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.

Excellent case study about teachers implementing PBL in their classrooms. Introduces project-based learning and goes through the process and even the teacher's thoughts about PBL afterwords.

This is a great article about conducting professional development workshops for teachers through PBL. Too often, as the article notes, professional development is delivered through direct instruction, but then those who put on the PD expect teachers to do things different in their own classrooms. PD specialists must model what they expect their students - which happen to be teachers - to do in their own classrooms.

This site has an abundance of resources for incorporating PBL into math.

On the Wikipedia website about PBL it says that teaching math using PBL is one of the controversial topics because math is a skill-based subject. As a math teacher I was impressed with the amount of resources out there for PBL and math.

Welcome this first of a four part series intended to provide Math teachers with some outstanding PBL resources. First, to ensure you do not miss one of these valuable posts or other resources covering PBL, Digital Curriculum, Web 2.0, STEM, 21st century learning, and technology integration, please sign up for 21centuryedtech by email or RSS.

This blog entry is a nice introduction to how school districts can help teachers make the shift to project based learning.

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This site is especially helpful for school districts looking for guidance in establishing 21st century curriculum. Besides resources for teachers, it has guidelines and resources for district administrators. This site gives teachers the support that they may need if they are trying to incorporate PBL and are meeting some resistance.

PBL show evidence of increasing teachers capacity for differentiated and individualized instruction.

As a teacher in a Project Based Learning (PBL) school, I cherished the projects I created. I worked diligently to ensure that all PBL units I developed were rigorous and engaging. They were oftenti...

Great Info on using Google Forms. I am planning to learn this ASAP>