
Project-Based Learning: Boosting 21st Century Skills in Class
🎓 Ready to transform your teaching? Perfect for educators across all levels, this program empowers you to implement PBL step by step. Uncover the secrets to engaging students, fostering critical skills, and bridging achievement gaps. Join us on this journey to elevate your classroom experience and craft impactful PBL units tailored to your students' needs!
Description
Are you looking for teaching strategies and methodologies that can boost your students’ 21st-century skills? If yes, Project-Based Learning (PBL) can equip you with some keys to make that happen in your class.
This course has been created for global educators from Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary levels who are new to PBL and want to be able to implement it in class to increase students’ motivation and 21st skills.
Research and teacher testimonials tell us that PBL engages students deeply, it gives them a deeper understanding of the topic, builds up key life skills like critical thinking, communication, and cooperation, and can potentially close the achievement gap by engaging lower-achieving students too.
You will learn about the basic principles of PBL following the Gold Standards framework, the four stages to implement it, and many strategies for PBL instruction assessment, feedback, and reflection. You will also explore how to manage teams and projects, team formation, scaffolding collaboration, and assessing teamwork in efficient ways. Not only that, but you will explore and analyze curated PBL units and give you opportunities to brainstorm project ideas, share them, and exchange opinions with peers.
During the course, you will be guided step by step with small daily tasks to enable you to progressively complete your personal project, the draft of a PBL unit for your classes and gain confidence in doing so.
Learning objectives
• Define Project-Based Learning (PBL)
• Describe the benefits and challenges of PBL
• Brainstorm project ideas for your class
• Promote efficient teamwork among students
• Promote constant and meaningful reflection practices among your students
• Identify the challenges of designing a PBL unit and ways to overcome them.
• Apply digital technologies to facilitate PBL
• Create a PBL unit for your class
Methodology & assessment
Our Pegasus teacher´s Academy Transcend Method for Teacher Training is built around what research tells us is effective and based on the analysis of the feedback from hundreds of teacher participants over the years.
Teachers learn best when they get to inquiry, investigate, reflect, perform small tasks that are doable and bite-sized, create learning artifacts that they can use for their classes (such as learning activities and lesson units) and feel positive, safe and supported in their learning experience.
More here: https://www.pegasusteacheracademy.com/methodology
Assessment:
-Class observation
-Completion of daily tasks assigned
-Completion and presentation of a final project related to the course on the last day.
Certification details
A completion certificate will be provided indicating the dates, location, duration of the course and main topics.
Additional information
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Language:English
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Target audience ISCED:Primary education (ISCED 1)Lower secondary education (ISCED 2)Upper secondary education (ISCED 3)
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Target audience type:TeacherHead Teacher / PrincipalSchool Psychologist
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Learning time:25 hours or more