1. PBL Learning
The Student’s Role

2. Helping Students Collaborate
Grouping students takes thought and planning.
When students are groups they form a very diverse group with different backgrounds and experiences.
First, start by having the students share ideas.
Each person’s opinion in the group must matter and be heard.
Helping Students Collaborate

3. Helping Students Collaborate
Ideas are broad on allowing students to be heard.
In one video, the teacher had the 2 youngest in group A switch groups with the 2 youngest in group B.
The new groups now talked through ideas for a period of time before returning to their original groups.
When the original groups were back together the younger students shared what they had talked about with the other group they had been with.
This allowed the students to hear other ideas that they maybe had not thought of up until that point.
Helping Students Collaborate

4. Helping Students Collaborate
An important part of collaborative learning is obviously student participation.
Teachers encourage student participation by finding the way to get students to “take off the mask.”
The mask is the invisible mask students wear because of peer pressure.
In your school and in your classroom, the focus must be on establishing a climate and culture in which students leave their masks at the door.
Helping Students Collaborate

5. Helping Students Collaborate
The teacher must facilitate discussion in the groups.
The teacher must help resolve conflicts in the groups.
The teacher must create an atmosphere in the classroom that allows all students/ideas to have worth and value.
The teacher must keep students involved and invested by being prepared daily and fresh with content.
Helping Students Collaborate

6. Helping Students Collaborate
Resources
in_pbl - This is a resource list with several different links to information involving collaboration.
tion_rubric_ccss_aligned - This is a resource that gives a rubric for the students collaboration that is aligned with CCSS standards.
Helping Students Collaborate

7. As teachers we have to design learning experiences that give students a Voice and Choice.
This allows for collaboration between the students, rather than following a set of directions.
This will keep students motivated and engaged with the project because they will be able to shape its outcome.
Voice and Choice

8. For example, a project focused on the issue of water resources might lead your students, in partnership with students across the world, to exchange research data and best-practices from culturally specific responses to those issues.
Making choices informed by others’ voices allows students create to final products, whether presentations or action plans, that bring new ideas to the table in their own communities. 
Voice and Choice

9. This kind of cross-global collaboration means we have to be ready to support our students as they encounter some of the more challenging aspects of this process.
Negotiation, conflict resolution, and interpersonal communication: these are the essential skills we need to think about to support Global PBL.
But competency in various content areas is also very important to success.
So think creatively about your content standards, too, as a means to the end of helping students make their world a better place via Global PBL.
Voice and Choice

10. Voice and Choice Resources
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- Students are allowed to make some choices about the products to be created, how they work, and how they use their time, guided by the teacher and depending on age level and PBL experience.
Voice and Choice

11. Guiding Students to becoming experts
The teacher must commit to leading the classroom from the shadows in PBL.
But the information that is in the standards must be covered and mastered.
It is the teachers job to guide the students to becoming experts, not tell the students the answers.
This is a very difficult task for the traditional teacher.
Guiding Students to becoming experts

12. Guiding the Students to becoming experts
Some tips for guiding the students to becoming experts
Using rubrics and examples of old projects help students understand the quality of work that is expected of them.
Formative assessment is key to ensuring student mastery.
Give students time to revise and polish their work.
Projects must be authentic and realistic.
Create a culture of quality in the classroom.
Guiding the Students to becoming experts

13. Guiding the Students to becoming experts
Resources
d/guiding_students_to_high_quality_work - Great video that goes into great detail on the 5 tips listed on the previous slide.
Guiding the Students to becoming experts

14. Facilitating multiple investigations or pathways
Many times in classroom discussions or group investigations teachers want to act as a facilitator.
But teachers often times end up reciting instead of facilitating.
Recitation involves the teacher asking predetermined questions and the student responding then the teacher evaluating the student’s response.
Facilitating multiple investigations or pathways

15. Facilitating multiple investigations or pathways
In contrast to recitation, quality discussion, according to the University of Washington's Center for Instructional Development and Research, involves purposeful questions prepared in advance, assessment, and starting points for further conversations.
Facilitating multiple investigations or pathways

16. Facilitating multiple investigations or pathways
Teachers are also advised to:
Distribute opportunities to talk
Allow discussants to physically see each other
Ask questions that "may or may not have a known or even a single correct answer"
Foster learners talking to peers
Encourage students to justify their responses
Vary the types of questions
Facilitating multiple investigations or pathways

17. Facilitating multiple investigations or pathways
Teachers in a PBL classroom must be prepared to ask questions they were not ready to ask.
Teachers must use follow up questions that are appropriate and that expand on the pathway that the student’s ideas have gone.
Facilitating multiple investigations or pathways

18. Facilitating multiple investigations or pathways
Resources
whole-class-discussion-todd-finley - Information on leading classroom discussion but also great follow up questions to facilitate group investigations.
Facilitating multiple investigations or pathways

19. Student Resources