Rantings and Ravings of Middle Level Teacher
By John Garrett
Rantings and Ravings of Middle Level TeacherJul 01, 2021
Power of PBL outside of school pt 2
In this episode I talk about the outcomes of my PBL at home experiment as well as about a recent conversation with other regarding PBL.
Power of PBL outside of school
Listen to my application of PBL (project based learning) outside of the classroom. I talk about how doing this at home with 2 of my kids showed me powerful examples of why PBL is important in the classroom. Also it gave me good info on how to approach it in the classroom.
Leveraging Creativity
In this episode I talk about how I plan on leveraging kids creativity in my engineering class. Also how I plan to use PBL to engage kids in both learning and applying technology skills in preparing them for our innovation economy.
Teaching the Creativity out of Students
In this episode I talk about my thoughts on the importance of project based learning. Why we need to think about using PBL in lieu of testing as a way to assess kids understanding of the skills and concepts we are trying to teach them.