Course: Project Based Learning for World Languages
Description
Project-based learning is an instructional strategy in which students work cooperatively over time to create a product, presentation, or performance. The two essential components of project-based learning are an engaging and motivating question and a product that meaningfully addresses that question. Learn the why & how of PBL through examples that are the “main course” of a unit, not the dessert. Participants will understand the Essential Elements of PBL and develop ideas for real-world projects that engage students, decide on student products, and write Driving Questions to focus a project. Participants leave with an outline of a new project.
Topics Addressed
How you this course will help you in your classroom
Project-based learning is an instructional strategy in which students work cooperatively over time to create a product, presentation, or performance. The two essential components of project-based learning are an engaging and motivating question and a product that meaningfully addresses that question. Learn the why & how of PBL through examples that are the “main course” of a unit, not the dessert. Participants will understand the Essential Elements of PBL and develop ideas for real-world projects that engage students, decide on student products, and write Driving Questions to focus a project. Participants leave with an outline of a new project.
Topics Addressed
- Using tasks or projects to drive language acquisition
- Real-world problems and how they can leverage language learning
How you this course will help you in your classroom
- Students engage in real-world problems
- Language learning comes while immersed in an issue
- Teacher will learn how to design learning units that focus on solving a problem/issue
- Teacher will learn how language learning can be embedded in a unit