1. Project-Based Learning Integrating 21st Century Skills

2. Rationale for Student Projects
Projects allow students opportunities to:
Develop in-depth knowledge of a topic
Use critical thinking skills
Make real-world connections
Demonstrate understanding through products
Use technology

3. Effective Projects Have Common Elements…
Standards dive the project
21st century skills are developed throughout the project
Important questions focus the project
Ongoing assessment informs the students and teacher
Varied instructional strategies engage all learners
The needs of students with varying needs and abilities are met

4. Using 21st Century Skills, students will…
Read critically
Write persuasively
Work collaboratively
Think creatively
Solve complex problems
Manage information
Using digital technology
Using communication tools

5. Instructional Approaches…
Student-Centered
Choosers
Designers
Self-Directed
Discover-Apply-Present
Collaborate
Use multiple sources of information
Use 21st Century Skills
Make Real-World Connections

6. CONSTRUCTIVISM

7. Project-based learning activities generally
integrate language and cognitive skills
connect to real-life problems
generate high learner interest
involve some cooperative or group learning skills

8. Unlike instruction where content is organized by themes that relate and contextualized material to be learned, project-based learning presents learners with a problem to solve or a product to produce.
They must then plan and execute activities to achieve their objectives.