Sample Agenda

 

Day 1

8:30 Welcome & Agenda

8:45 Significant Learning Activity

9:45What is PBL? Video

          Social Business Project

          Toy Story

 

10:00 50 Things Activity (Brainstorm products and essential questions)

 

11:45 Brainstorm Shout-Outs

 

12:00 Lunch (Read over one of the articles below during lunchtime.)

 

1:00 Backwards Design or Where Do Projects Come From? or PME: Planning, Management & Exhibition or The Main Course, Not Dessert:  Articles & Discussion—Final word protocol

 

2:00 Dream Project Design & Projects from Passions

 

2:30 Work Time: Project development, questions, prepare project designs.

 

3:30 Accomplishments, Recognitions & Goal Setting for Day 2

 

4:00 Adjourn

 

Homework: Further develop projects for tuning and/or read other articles.

 

Day 2

8:30 Welcome & Agenda

 

8:45 Instructional Critique & Structures for Individual Classrooms—Ron Berger video & HTH examples.

 

10:00  Fishbowl Project Tuning

 

11:00 Work time: Further planning based information from the critique work.  How can you add critique into your project?  Begin to prepare for project tuning after lunch.

 

12:00 Lunch (need to get some volunteers for project tuning)

 

1:00  Project-Tuning Protocols

 

2:30 Project tuning shout outs

 

3:00 PBL is...  Discuss the importance of prototyping project first.  

3:30 Connections & Appreciation

4:00 Farewell and we hope to see you soon!