{"id":11806,"date":"2017-05-01T11:54:43","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T15:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/?p=11806"},"modified":"2017-06-26T15:12:03","modified_gmt":"2017-06-26T19:12:03","slug":"project-based-learning-resources-for-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/project-based-learning-resources-for-parents\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Project-Based Learning resources for parents"},"content":{"rendered":"

How do you explain PBL to families?<\/h1>\n

\"project-basedThe popularity of\u00a0Project-Based Learning (PBL) has grown\u00a0significantly with teachers and students, but what about parents? When students walk out of school, do they communicate their excitement about PBL to their families?<\/p>\n

Let’s look at some resources for helping\u00a0parents\u00a0understand why PBL is so engaging for students.<\/p>\n

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What do parents think about PBL?<\/h2>\n

We’ve written at length about why PBL\u00a0makes for effective and engaging learning opportunities for students. With PBL, students see themselves making a difference in the world around them. PBL empowers students\u00a0to see themselves as agents of change.<\/p>\n

How it worked for one parent<\/h3>\n

Kelly Story’s son, Ian, is a sixth-grader at Shelburne Community School, in Shelburne VT. Story noticed a change in her son\u00a0as he worked through an inter-disciplinary PBL unit on revolutions: he began talking to her about them, and he began to see how his own life reflected what he was learning.<\/p>\n

“The funny part about it was that we started to get a clue at the beginning of the year that he was studying revolutions because he started to talk at home about basically kind of revolting against his parents…<\/p>\n

And we were like, “Huh! He’s really thinking at a different level here about this!”<\/p>\n

Ian went on to ask his mom about attending local political protests, which they then did as a family.<\/p>\n

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