Planning for Success With PBL

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Location: La Nouvelle Ballroom, Table 5
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Jillian Booth
Heidi Neltner
Coaches and teachers, learn tips and tricks for how to successfully design and implement a standards-based PBL experience that encourages divergent thinking through design thinking and inquiry. Hear about projects that have been done in Fort Thomas Independent School, and learn about tools that helped support student learning and teacher facilitation.

Audience:	Coaches, Curriculum/district specialists, Teachers
Skill level:	Beginner
Attendee devices:	Devices useful
Attendee device specification:	Smartphone: Android, iOS, Windows Laptop: Chromebook, Mac, PC Tablet: Windows, Android, iOS
Topic:	Project-, problem- & challenge-based learning
Grade level:	PK-12
ISTE Standards:	For Coaches: Collaborator Partner with educators to identify digital learning content that is culturally relevant, developmentally appropriate and aligned to content standards. Learning Designer Collaborate with educators to develop authentic, active learning experiences that foster student agency, deepen content mastery and allow students to demonstrate their competency. For Educators: Designer Design authentic learning activities that align with content area standards and use digital tools and resources to maximize active, deep learning.

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Purpose & objective

Participants will know:
> How to identify standards and consider assessment strategies inside of PBL
> How to develop a driving question that leads the inquiry
> Inquiry based practices that help students organize their learning
> How to use design thinking to lead to divergent thinking and creative problem solving - projects often focus on the use of empathy interviews and exploration, design sprints, gallery walks, and feedback from selected audiences
> How to design structures and tools that build in checkpoints and milestones and keep the project on track - projects often capitalize on custom built project notebooks that function to organize inquiry and activities

Supporting research

Larmer, J., Hallermann, S. (2014). PBL in the Elementary Grades: Step-by-Step Guidance, Tools and Tips for Standards Focused Projects. Novato, CA: Buck Institute for Education.
Larmer, J., Ross, D., Mergendoller, J.R. (2008). PBL Starter Kit: To the Point Advice, Tools and Tips or your First Project in Middle or High School. Novato, CA: Buck Institute for Education.
Larmer, J., Mergendoller, J., & Boss, S. (2015). Setting the Standard for Project Based Learning: A Proven Approach to Rigorous Classroom Instruction. Alexandria, VA: ASCD.
Kuhlthau, C. C., Maniotes, L. K., & Caspari, A. K. (2012). Guided inquiry design: A framework for inquiry in your school. Santa Barbara, CA: Libraries Unlimited
Understand Mixtape Institute of Design at Stanford
Experiment MixTape Institute of Design at Stanford
Ideate Mixtape. Institute of Design at Stanford

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Jillian Booth, Fort Thomas Independent Schools

Heidi Neltner, Fort Thomas Independent Schools

Heidi Neltner is mom to a self-proclaimed "tech-kid" and Digital Learning Coach in Fort Thomas, Kentucky. She is a certified Apple Learning Coach and a Google Innovator, a former high school English teacher and elementary librarian. Neltner is a Kentucky Outstanding School Media Librarian recipient, A.D. Albright Outstanding Teacher, Golden Apple recipient, and KySTE Outstanding Teacher of the Year.

Planning for Success With PBL

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