PBL glossary 10 terms

GLOSSARY

1.Assessment refers to the wide variety of methods or tools that educators use to evaluate, measure, and document the academic readiness, learning progress, skill acquisition, or educational needs of students.

2.Authenticity - The project features real-world context, tasks and tools, quality standards, or impact – or speaks to students’ personal concerns, interests, and issues in their lives.

3.Essential question -the project is framed by a meaningful problem to solve or a question to answer, at the appropriate level of challenge.

4.Evaluation is the process of making judgments based on criteria and evidence.

5.Project is the development of confidence in using English in the real world, the world outside the classroom.

6. Project-based learning is a model for classroom activity that shifts away from the usual classroom practices of sort, isolated, teacher-centered lessons.

7.Project-based learning is a method of teaching that presents students with a problem or challenge to solve, requires them to gather information from various resources and asks them to come up with an original solution that ends in a product or performance.

8. Project-based learning is a systematic teaching approach that engages students in learning important knowledge and 21^st century skills through an extended, student-influenced inquiry process, structured around complex, authentic questions and carefully designed products and learning tasks.

9. Reflection - Students and teachers reflect on learning, the effectiveness of their inquiry and project activities, the quality of student work, obstacles and how to overcome them.

10.Sustained Inquiry - Students engage in a rigorous, extended process of asking questions, finding resources, and applying information