PBL 101: Designing Engaging Projects
January 15 & January 22 @ 1:30 pm –3:00 pm in D104E
Remote option may be available, please contact Michael Reese or Miranda Kato.
Are you ready to provide a new look to your favorite class? Want to invigorate your favorite curriculum with student-centered activities? Are you interested in empowering your students to take charge of their own learning? If so, please come to Project-Based Learning 101. We will investigate:
· Doing a project vs. project-based learning
· Making projects authentic for students
· Putting project-based learning into practice—providing structure for open-ended, discovery-based work
Come explore project-based learning with Miranda Kato. This workshop series entails three hours of meetings and three hours of independent study and work.
6 PD hours
$75 stipend
Assessment for Project-Based Learning
January 29 & February 5 @ 1:30 pm –3:00 pm in D104E
Remote option may be available, please contact Michael Reese or Miranda Kato.
How do you grade and assess team projects? Do you give the same grade to the whole group? Do you assign roles to allow individual grading? Do you have students evaluate one another’s contributions? And how do you know if students have really become better team players over the course of the quarter? In these two sessions, we will examine the pros and cons of a variety of assessment and grading methods—and brainstorm ways to overcome the potential issues. We will explore:
· The principles of the “transparency framework” for assignment and assessment design
· Assessing “soft skills” like teamwork
· Effective formative & summative team assessments BC faculty have used before
· Strengths and limitations of different approaches to assessment and grading
Come explore project-based learning with Miranda Kato and Michael Reese. This workshop series entails three hours of meetings and three hours of independent study and work.
6 PD hours
$75 stipend
Student Projects: Fostering Effective Team Dynamics
February 12 & February 19 @ 1:00 pm–2:30 pm in D104E
Remote option may be available, please contact Michael Reese or Miranda Kato.
When you have students work on projects, should you have students pick their own teammates or should you place them into groups? Well, it depends on what you want them to learn. How do you teach soft skills like teamwork and collaborative learning? When one member of a student team isn’t pulling their weight, when and how do you intervene? These are some of issues we’ll discuss in this two-part workshop. We’ll also investigate:
· Strengths and limitations of different approaches to team formation
· The role of assessment in fostering positive team dynamics
· Methods to encourage teams to solve their own problems
Come explore project-based learning with Miranda Kato and Michael Reese.
This workshop series entails three hours of meetings and three hours of independent study and work.
6 PD hours
$75 stipend
Project-Based Learning in the Online Environment
A pair of Tuesdays or Wednesdays
Remote option may be available, please contact Michael Reese or Miranda Kato.
When the RISE Learning Institute sent a team of BC faculty to the nationally renowned Institute for Project-Based Learning, we asked what other colleges were doing regarding project-based learning (PBL) in online and hybrid courses. Many different colleges told us something along the lines of, “Oh, that’s hard. We haven’t done much PBL online.” Well, several BC faculty in different disciplines do use PBL in the online environment, and our college is something of a leader in this area. Come learn about the range of innovative e-learning approaches being used right here at BC to foster student engagement in online courses.
We will investigate:
• Synchronous vs. asynchronous methods of coordinating project teams
• Providing structure and scaffolding for projects in the online environment
• Strategies for creating team-based deliverables
Come explore project-based learning with Miranda Kato and Michael Reese.
This workshop series entails three hours of meetings and three hours of independent study and work.
6 PD hours
$75 stipend
Last Updated January 5, 2021
