Project-Based Learning: Success Start to Finish Video Lecture | What is Project Based Learning (PBL)? - Professional Skills

I was a bad stick skip school quite a
bit and I really didn't find education
exciting until I got to college because
then I got to control how I was going to
learn my name is Stevens ipkiss I'm the
founding principle of Maynard new
technology high school and Manor
Independent School District Manor Texas
Manor New Tech is a 100% progr based
instruction school students at this
school not only get the knowledge but
they learn the application so the
knowledge then becomes relevant when
they have to apply it to a real world
situation I'm super excited about this
project about the Hunger Games
my co teacher Michael chambers he is the
expert in history I sat down with
Michael and said you know what I think
this is how we can fit it in let's look
at your state standards and let's look
at my standards and see what is coming
up next
you
so what's your standards you're going to
be covered in this we're gonna do five a
which is analyzing scenes five be
analyzing different characters moral
dilemmas and this is huge we have no
choice on what we teach really the state
tells us what we have to teach what are
yours again that we're hitting so I can
go ahead and write this out W age twelve
a history of the students understand the
causes impact a World War two describe
the emergence and characteristics of
totalitarianism we hook the kids into
the project with the entry event and
then we do what's called the nose and
the need to notice and that's where the
students will give us a list of things
what do you know about this content so
they go through their prior knowledge
and then they talk about what do they
need to know so we're talking about
leaving the students bread crumbs in
these entry events and those bread
crumbs would be like clues this idea of
wait a minute kind of I've heard this
word before I don't know exactly what
that means so that's a need-to-know and
I'll ask that at another time you
probably need to include that picture
that I had on research yeah because we
use that in the questions for Clement ok
great Daniel process of a project is
constantly changing we have to look at
what the students are doing how they're
learning do we need to go back and do
some more scaffolding really five a
student who is 3/4 of a way or almost in
with an entire project and has not been
doing very well I really step back and
wonder where was I this whole time why
wasn't I paying more attention to where
the students progress was our students
are averaging 60 projects a year so
they're averaging 60 to 65 public
speeches a year by the time they
graduate over 200 public speeches they
know how to talk right now my favorite
project is going to create your own
project my favorite project this year
was in chemistry and what it was about
we were using chemistry and reactants to
create a soda it's a video production
class
and we're making a kid show we're
calling it the dojo show we're learning
about spatial diffusion black depth the
Columbian Exchange reactions like double
replacement combustion things like that
I like it because it gives me a whole
lot of room to be creative
you'll notice that we're covering a lot
of the state standards that deal with
working in groups and how you are giving
feedback to each other on content at the
end of the class period you need to have
a complete and finalized presentation so
critical friends will be over on that
side everyone else continue working on
your presentations and we'll get started
so this half of the class has been
working on a protocol that's called
critical friends where they're getting
feedback on their presentations we're
going to do a skit on our moral dilemma
here's our choices do we take them back
to the German so they can kill him do we
attempt to take him to a medical center
so they can heal him and save his life
hmm
what should I do should I let my country
suffer from the lack of resources I like
the fact that they're doing a skit
instead of a PowerPoint or something
because they actually make it
interesting and they like interact with
the audience and everything I like sir
just obvious what do they like about
those presentations the I wonders are
maybe some clarifying questions that
they might have about those
presentations I wonder why he like chose
like specific music to what the
presentation that's what I wonder and
the next steps are some that's where the
critique comes in some feedback but some
more emotion into your speaking like
really so why you would choose a reason
they're going to present their papers
but how they present it always how they
present is their choice but they always
do something multimedia
of course we're having presentations
this morning and what you should have
each group should have one slip as
everybody knows we read the book The
Hunger Games so what is a moral dilemma
it's a situation where all your choices
are morally challenging ours was to risk
your life to save another there's three
Jewish prisoners and they escaped from a
German concentration camp mean Jorge Abe
and Jeremiah
escaped fine but our friend phillium is
wounded and he will die if he doesn't
get help I can't choose my own selfish
desires to kill to keep a friend then
doing what is right and Justin letting
him go through all that pain thank you
I'm assessing them on various pieces of
the oral communication like how they
organize their ideas and how they
deliver those ideas what kind of tone
they use during the presentation I'm
more of an independent student of me
grabbing knowledge than someone telling
me I believe it has prepared me to take
the state test because it's a new way of
learning and it sticks to you in a way
that's different from an oral teaching
class you put them in this setting then
suddenly it just makes sense to them
they see the potential that they never
saw in themselves
and
I get excited about my content again
because it challenges me and when I get
excited about my content they get
excited and when they get excited just
feeds me more and it just to me it makes
it all worthwhile