Colleagues as Guinea Pigs

June 2015 | Chronicle of Higher Education

If you’re going to experiment with “project-based learning” as a teaching tool in your classroom, why not try it out on your colleagues, too?

That was my thinking, anyway, at a recent conference where I was assigned to introduce a group of educators to Project-Based Learning, or PBL. The theme of the conference was learner-centered instruction, so I had chosen a “jigsaw” approach. I wanted my session to model the subject matter being taught — to use PBL to teach PBL while still retaining control of the classroom. …

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