Ideas for different ways you can check in with your learners to better adjust instruction and support during the process of project-based learning.

1. Using Formative
Assesment during the
PBL Process
©Dimitri Martin

2. Formative assessment
Helps teachers inform instruction.
• Where am I in relation to this learning target?
• What do I need to do to get there?
Helps students make informed decisions
concerning their learning.
Assessment for learning.
• Where are my students in relation to the learning target?
• How can I use remaining time to help them achieve it?
give meaningful feedback to students and specific ways to improve

3. The Process
• Set Expectations
• Form Teams
• Brainstorm Questions & Ideas
• Develop the Vision
• Create a Storyboard
• Build the Project
• Presentation of Learning

4. Step 1: Set Expectations
• Give students the learning target in
language they can understand.
• Describe why their work is important
(beyond the academic).
• Share examples of high-quality
completed work.
• Share checklists and rubrics to clarify
your expectations for their work.

5. Step 2: Form Teams
Heterogeneous groups: varying levels of
academic, social, organizational, and
technical expertise.
http://creativeeducator.tech4learning.com/v03/articles/Collaboration
Strongly
Agree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly
Disagree

6. Step 3: Brainstorming
Questions and Ideas

7. Step 3: Brainstorming
Questions and Ideas

8. Step 4: Develop the Vision
1. Narrow ideas
Pros Cons

9. Step 4: Develop the Vision
2. Determine direction the project work will go.

10. Set goals
Specific
Measurable
Attainable
Relevant
Timely
• track progress and measure outcome
• what makes the effort worthwhile?
• due date: accountability and motivation
• realistic: challenging, but achievable
• DEFINED, reason, purpose, constraints
Step 4: Develop the Vision

11. Step 4: Develop the Vision
Share vision and solicit feedback.
• Teacher review
• Peer feedback
• Gallery Walk

12. "A goal without a plan
is just a wish."
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Step 5: Research & Plan

13. Step 5: Research & Plan
• Graphic organizers
• Storyboards
Students move from what they want to do
to what they will do.
A goal without clear steps is
just a dream. But a goal with
explicit steps is a reality!

14. Provide specific, actionable strategies
Step 6: Project Building
• mini-lesson
• strategies
• productive
practice
@HindesScience

15. Step 6: Project Building
• Thumbs up or down
• Fist-to-five
• Laundry Day
Monitoring progress: whole class

16. I am almost done with my work. I can
support someone else.
I could use some feedback about my
work and how I could improve.
I know what I need to do and can do
it without assistance.
I need help to clarify expectations &
what I need to do to get it done.
Step 6: Project Building
Monitoring progress: whole class

17. Step 6: Project Building
• Appointment clock
• Turn and Talk
• 2 cold, 1 warm
Monitoring progress: peer
http://monteneyelearning.org/staff/course/view.php?id=87

18. Step 6: Project Building
Monitoring progress: peer

19. Step 6: Project Building
• Self-assessment
• Exit/Admit slip
• Learning journals
Monitoring progress: individual

20. 3-2-1 - Open-ended
• List five things you learned in class today.
• What are the three most important things
you learned this class period?
Review
What else? What next?
Things that make you go hmmm..
• What confuses you about the material today?
• What do you wonder?
• What should we do on this topic tomorrow?
Step 6: Project Building
Monitoring progress: individual

21. Step 6: Project Building
Reflection
https://chrishildrew.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/learning-journal.pdf

22. Step 7: Presentation of Learning
• Teams present artifacts, designs, products.
• Individual team members share their learning.
• Audience gives feedback.
• Facilitator provides feedback and clarifies.
http://creativeeducator.tech4learning.com/2014/articles/PBL-and-Presentations
Move from presentations of products
to presentations of learning