My Project Work
My current project work is researching the PBL (project based learning) process at three levels, elementary, middle and high school. I am fortunate to work in an innovative environment that allows for me to co-facilitate pbl work at all levels 4th-12th grade.
What I have discovered this year is that I am really passionate about PBL work. Although I have known this all along being in an environment where the day to day reality allows for PBL work to occur fairly seamlessly is pretty amazing.
This year's journey has had some successes and some bumps along the way. I have documented the entire journey in another blog called "Two Educators, One Journey." The "Two Educators" blog consists of daily reflective posts not only on my PBL work but on the year in general.
"Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome."
Arthur Ashe
End of Day Reflection
What we accomplished today:- Not enough ha ha! The students were really engaged and worked hard all day but I feel like there is never enough time in the day to get everything done.
- Okay seriously we did: work on a shared google doc which spring boarded up into the beginning of creating our project rubric. We worked on project plans and did several posts to our blogs. The MS and HS students actually "coded" data much like I code my data in qualitative research. That was awesome! I also had them define meta cognition and answer the question, "what does it mean to be meta cognitive?" One of our goals as facilitators this spring is to teach them about their thinking.
After today's work I am feeling:
- Pumped up and invigorated! I really REALLY love PBL days.
Next steps:
- Finish project rubric
- Formal check in with students to go over project plans
Lingering questions:
- Where do we go next based on what we accomplished today. I need time to read blogs and reflect on where each student is to be able to coach their project process.
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