At the end of the 2016-2017 school year, we were very fortunate to have a three day Project Based Learning (PBL) workshop led by Drew Perkins , Director of Professional Development at TeachThought . For me, the three day workshop was an opportunity to fine tune my understanding of PBL, work with teachers on new ideas and dig into strategies that can help teachers think through the planning process. Day 1: Aligning from the Top Down Some of my big takeaways from the first day of our professional development with Drew was that when designing a project with specific skills or standards in mind, it helps to begin by brainstorming possible products, purpose and audience and projects, in terms of Bloom's Taxonomy , really start at the top and as students work through the project they move down into understanding and remembering. In my role as coach, when I work with teachers to develop PBL, I think the audience piece is really important for us to consider more careful...
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