PowerUp H: Effective Planning and Instruction for Project-based Learning

To create the conditions for meaningful, engaged learning, teachers need to be able to plan for and scaffold an inquiry approach. The goal is to integrate rigorous academic standards and curriculum goals with critical competencies needed for success in school and beyond, while simultaneously centering students' own lives and experiences and empowering them to make meaning actively. Effective project-based learning can powerfully address all of these priorities. 

Teachers need tangible, specific strategies for designing, planning, and implementing projects that engage and empower learners. This PowerUp will provide you with how-tos that enable you to approach your own instructional practice in this way. These include things like backward planning from a vision of what students will know and be able to do and produce, engaging with standards and curriculum goals, intentionally weaving in explicit instruction through lessons, and lower-lift ways to experiment with project-based learning as you’re starting out.