#FLENJ17 PBL Building Blocks Workshop
I want to help people get started with their first PBL project, but I don’t have any one set strategy that I, personally use to get started. Even if I did, the chances of everyone else’s brains working like mine are (thankfully) slim.
When I’ve conducted “building block” type workshops in the past, people have typically wanted to see a few different things:
- Ideas and examples
- How everything fits
- Day-to-day activities
- Ways to assess effectively
- A Driving Question that is worth developing into a project
- An audience to invite to project presentations
- At least one text for students to interpret to support project development
- A list of language structures–functional chunks–to focus instruction
4/3 Update: Still waiting on those comments! BUT here are my 10 absolute favorite questions!
- Is celebrity a blessing or a curse? (Agnes is my new hero)
- Does social media help or harm people?
- How did people communicate before social media?
- Should I go after my passion (music career, being an artist…) or be safe and attend college? (also Agnes)
- ¿Prefieres usar snapchat o instagram? ¿Por qué? ¿Qué peligros tiene? (Maria)
- ¿Que factores hay en que una persona llegue a ser popular e la vida? (Ruth)
- What makes a family? (Bridget)
- How do athletics influence culture? (Dana)
- Are zoos bad? (elementary contingent)
- Why do you dress the way you do?