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    Celebrate Success 

    PBL takes thoughtful planning and execution to achieve meaningful learning experiences for all students. Once you’ve gone through that process, it’s important to take a moment and celebrate all the work. While a simple class party may be called for, there are lots of other ways to celebrate. You could:

    • After revising their work based on feedback, invite the school’s administration team or another class and have students share their work again for a different audience.
    • Re-engage with any community partners for an informal debrief, in person or online, to continue the conversation and offer feedback for both students and partners.

     

     

    Reflect on Project

    Reflecting on learning is an essential element of PBL. We strongly recommend reflecting at three different levels: individually, in small groups, and as a whole class (including any community partners). 

    We recommend utilizing elements from this l to engage in the reflection process. The tool has insightful questions broken into groups focused on “Backward-Looking,” “Inward-Looking,” and “Outward-Looking” to consider all aspects of a project. 

    As a teacher, be sure to capture in writing the finer points of what made the experience powerful for you and the students, and the little things you’d like to tweak for next time.

     

     

    Conserve Student Work

    Experienced PBL teachers consistently share that conserving student work is important because it encourages you to repeat and improve your PBL projects again and again. Having a diversity of student work projects is also a helpful tool in sharing with administrators about your classroom teaching practice, and can be studied as part of professional development or professional learning community offerings. 

    While we strongly recommend physical copies of student work, we also encourage teachers to use digital storage. Creating a website of student work on this (and other) PBL efforts gives students, parents, and colleagues a clear window into the important work you’re doing in your class. 

    Finally, conserving student work is a district wide priority. Please consider submitting your work to the èßäapp¹ÙÍø PBL Project Library, a site maintained to encourage and showcase the important work done across the district.