Welcome to our course blog! For those of you new to blogging, hopefully this experience will expand your ideas for online communication to use in your classroom or for personal use.
For you bloggers out there, please feel free to use options you are already familiar with such as adding links or other helpful media to your posts. Following each course meeting, you will be logging in and posting your thoughts and comments related to our course reading.
This is a place where you can share and discuss how what you are learning from your course readings, from our discussions in our meetings, and your interactions with your professional learning communities and your colleagues as you collaborate to find strategies and solutions to apply best practice strategies and structures for project based learning.
Please share successes and failures as you work to implement what you are learning into your classroom practice. Most of all, reflect on your learning process. In order for us to extend our classroom community to an online setting with this blog, it is important that you also read and respond to the posts of your peers. After each course meetings, please post your thoughts and then also choose two of your colleagues to respond to as well. Please also feel free to share any questions, comments, or suggestions.
We look forward to the learning process that will occur from this online community.
Sincerely,
Dawn Mitchell & Josh Patterson
After reading Building school communities one brick at a time and Navigating the intricacies of PBL. I feel that implementing PBL is possible. As we are laying the foundation one brick at a time I believe that we must be flexible and not so rigid. The intricacies of PBL and grouping is the laying of the foundation bricks by brick. Once we assess our students with a formative test we can then spread them out into PBL groups. At this point we need to have a hands off approach and be the facilitator.
ReplyDeleteWe also need to build teacher buy in. We need to share PBL until the whole school buys in. When this happens amazing results will happen school wide and further as time goes on.
We need to reach out to our community. Once we get the community to buy in then we can make some real world connections