According to Buck
Institute for Education, project based learning is an instructional
framework where the project work is central rather than peripheral
in the instructional design.
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Additional characteristics include:
- Student Responsibility
- Students are accountable to themselves and their peers and are
given considerable autonomy.
- Real Work
- Classroom and out-of-classroom time in PBL is devoted primarily
to work that is related to the world outside of the classroom,
incorporating authentic tasks and resulting in valuable products.
- Contextualized Learning
- Learning arises in response to provocative issues or questions
which lead students to in-depth explorations of important topics.
- Frequent Opportunities for Feedback
- Many PBL tasks such as presentations, exhibitions, and peer
assessments provide students with an opportunity to learn from
experience.
- Impact on "Life Skills"
- Although PBL can have a significant effect onsubject-0matter
skills, it has substantial impact on hard-to-teach "life
skills" and "process skills" such as self-management,
group-process, and problem-solving skills.
 Order PBL:
A Handbook for Middle and High School Teachers for step-by-step
instructions on creating your own PBL.
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