Glossary PBL

Glossary

Authentic Assessment assesses “real-life” and planning skills, creativity, knowledge integration, and collaboration abilities outside the school environment. This can be achieved by using a pre-determined set of criteria for instance rubrics, a scoring scale incorporating a set of essential criteria for the task and appropriate levels of performance for each criterion used.

Collaboration is a joint effort of multiple individuals or work groups to accomplish a task or project.

Content- is the subjects or topics covered in a book or document.

Creativity. The ability to produce ideas or behaviors that are recognizably original is closely tied to innovation: the ideas must be adaptable and useful to oneself or others. The PBL solution? Use the breakthrough rubric for creativity.

Critical thinking is the ability to think clearly and rationally about what to do or what to believe.

Inquiry is the mindset that students use to build their own knowledge and understanding through an active, open-minded exploration of a meaningful question, problem, or issue.

Project Based Learning: inquiry-based instructional approach that utilizes projects as a central organizing strategy for educating students.

Project Based Learning: a teaching method in which students gain knowledge and skills by working for an extended period of time to investigate and respond to a complex question, problem, or challenge.

Project Based Learning: a theory of learning that promotes students learning by doing in order to answer a complex question.

Project Based Learning: a teaching strategy that uses real-world learning activities to engage student interest and motivation.

Project: all the things students will do in order to learn the standards encompassed by the Driving Question.

Product: the results of the work of the project. Many project based learning experiences result in a culminating product that is presented publicly for an audience that includes at least some persons not in the students’ regular learning group.

Skills. Reading, writing, knowledge accumulation, and critical thinking have long been considered the essential skills for preparing students for college entry. But students are now expected to master the key “soft” skills of communication and collaboration to function proficiently in college, in a career, and as a citizen.

Reference:

1. http://www.dictionary.com/browse/content
2. “All The Project-Based Learning Terms You Should Know” by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Apr 16, 2014 | Information Fluency, Leadership, Teaching, https://globaldigitalcitizen.org/all-the-project-based-learning-terms-you-should-know
3. “ The Cambridge Handbook of the Learning Sciences”, edited by R.Keith Sawyer, page 3