Glossary, PBL 1

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

Project-based Learning (PBL) is a model for classroom activity that shifts away from the usual classroom practices of short, isolated, teacher-centred lessons.

Project-based Learning (PBL) 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.

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

21st Century Skills comprise skills, abilities, and learning dispositions that have been identified as being required for success in 21st century society and workplaces

Project-based Learning approach is an “in-depth investigation of a real-world topic worthy of children’s attention and effort.”

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

The essential question drives a project and describes what you want students to think about, explore, and formulate an answer to at the end of the project.