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Strategy Guides
Using models of quality work is a powerful strategy for Gold Standard Project Based Learning.
Planning Tools
The EL Scaffolds for PBL document provides strategies & recommendations to support English Learners.
Planning Tools
Plan projects with Gold Standard PBL's Essential Project Design Elements.
Planning Tools
For quick evaluation of a project's design, to check for Gold Standard PBL's Essential Elements.
Strategy Guides
How to use project walls to manage and display student learning in the classroom.
Planning Tools
This rubric describes beginning, developing, and Gold Standard levels for Project Based Teaching Practices.
Articles
This table shows some examples of how teachers used thinking routines in PBL units.
Articles
Ron Berger explains how his classroom culture helped students create high-quality products.
Articles
Overview of the why and what of PBLWorks' new model for designing rigorous, engaging projects.
Planning Tools
Use this tool to plan for thoughtful collaboration with industry and community partners.
Strategy Guides
Effective preparation for presentations helps students build project management, collaboration, and communication skills and ensures that their presentations are high-quality and impactful.
Strategy Guides
Whether your students exhibit their work products during the course of the project, at the end, or both, you’ll want to have many sets of eyes on their public products. An audience feedback form is a tool used to actively engage the audience at an exhibition.
Strategy Guides
A rubric is more than a tool to assess final products. It is a tool that should be leveraged throughout the project to support multiple kinds of learning opportunities for your students. This guide offers strategies for using rubrics to aid learning at each phase of a project.
Strategy Guides
In Project Based Learning, students should have regular opportunities to reflect, individually and with others, on both what and how they are learning. This guide provides a framework and strategies for supporting reflection on learning throughout a project.
Strategy Guides
At the beginning of the project, students are introduced to key content in an authentic context via a stimulus or hook, which in PBL we call an entry event.
Strategy Guides
A learning log is a tool that students use during the project to keep track of their questions and learning generated through their research. This guide offers strategies for teaching students to use learning logs to support inquiry throughout a project.
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Norms are the agreed upon rules that build a productive, self-driven, and respectful culture. These norms, especially when co-created with students, can serve as the “north star” or guiding philosophy for all that happens in a classroom.
Strategy Guides
Critique protocols are structured processes that guide students in giving and receiving high quality feedback. This guide offers strategies for implementing peer critique protocols that enhance learning and improve the quality of student work.
Strategy Guides
The team contract is a document introduced at the start of each project that asks project teams to think through and agree on how students will individually contribute to the team, how the members will work together, and how problems will be solved when they arise.