PBL conference session 4

Session 4

Emerging PBL Part B
Lee Fleming
School Development Coach with New Technology Foundation
- General Questions – Need to know for our group:
o Midway project crash
 Greater front end planning versus end grading in regular classrooms
o EOC
o Pacing guide
o Big picture too big or too small
o Content and process
o Engagement in content
 Student ownership
 Competition
 Interest surveys
• Make a list of who might need this knowledge
- Big Picture
o Identify standards you will assess
 How much time will you spend on each standard for this course?
 What objectives will you include?
o Find how your standards are used in the real world and who uses these standards
- WHO might need to have this knowledge?
o environmentalist
- WHY might they need this information?
o To identify the effects of industrialism on a developing nation
- What might this person DO with this knowledge?
o Create ways to prevent the negative effects of industrialism, share with government or people these effects
- Start:
o Planning out the year – what the most important points my students need to know at the end of the year?