Pedagogical Approaches
Project-Based Learning
Also Known As The Project Method
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The pedagogical approach in which students acquire knowledge and skills by working over an extended period to investigate and respond to an authentic, complex real-world question or problem, rather than through lecture or rote memorization.
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Central QuestionCan students build deeper, more transferable knowledge by working through an extended, authentic project than by receiving the same content through direct teacher-led instruction? 1 Most Effective ForDisadvantaged schools and classrooms working on complex, real-world problems, where research associates project-based learning with higher test scores and gains in self-esteem and attitude toward learning. 2 Cross-Tradition Connections
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1. Edutopia
Project-based learning overview pageQuote, Project-based learning overview page
students actively explore real-world problems and challenges and acquire transferable knowledge
2. Wikipedia
Wikimedia FoundationProject-based learning pageQuote, Project-based learning page
a teaching method that involves a dynamic classroom approach in which it is believed that students acquire a deeper knowledge through active exploration of real-world challenges and problems
2. Wikipedia
Wikimedia FoundationProject-based learning page, effectiveness sectionQuote, Project-based learning page, effectiveness section
obtain higher test scores than students in traditional classroom
2. Wikipedia
Wikimedia FoundationProject-based learning page, history sectionQuote, Project-based learning page, history section
whole-hearted purposeful activity proceeding in a social environment
2. Wikipedia
Wikimedia FoundationDeveloped By: William Heard Kilpatrick, Project method pageQuote, Developed By: William Heard Kilpatrick, Project method page
In the early 20th Century, William Heard Kilpatrick expanded the project method into a philosophy of education.
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