I found it a bit surprising that after eight years as a secondary high school teacher, I hadn't heard about project based learning from any of my colleagues or administrators. In a nutshell, project based learning is a learner-centered instructional strategy which encourages cooperation and group work, resulting in the creation of a project. PBL allows students to make continual,
incremental progress, and gets them actively engaged in “doing” rather
than “learning about” something meaningful and interesting to them.
Our first module in EDTECH 541 gave us an opportunity to peruse what PBL was all about, and to learn how it could be incorporated into the classroom. If there is one thing I took away from the first week's lessons, it's that PBL is interdisciplinary, and cannot be done successfully in a vacuum. It requires a team of teachers to work together in the creation of PBL activities, and it needs the support of administrators to facilitate the teaching and learning conditions required for meaningful and effective project based learning.
Below is a brief video which explains the basics of PBL:
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