APEPAV’S PROJECT SHOWCASE

Apepav’s Project Showcase

What To Be Done

What is meant by project-based learning?

Project-based learning (PBL) or project-based instruction is an instructional approach designed to give someone the opportunity to develop knowledge and skills through engaging projects set around challenges and problems they may face in the real world.

Project-Based Learning

Project-based learning is more than just “doing a project,” in the way you might remember from your own school days. As the Buck Institute for Education (BIE) explains, with PBL, students “investigate and respond to an authentic, engaging, and complex problem or challenge” with deep and sustained attention.1 ArchForKids, an organization that provides STEAM programs for young learners, puts it even more succinctly: PBL is “learning by doing.”

Essential Elements of Christian Project

In essence, the PBL model consists of these seven characteristics:

Focuses on a big and open-ended question, challenge, or problem for the student to research and respond to and/or solve
Brings what Christians should academically know, understand, and be able to do into the equation
Is inquiry-based, stimulates intrinsic curiosity, and generates questions as it helps students seek answers
Uses 21st-century skills such as critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and creativity, among others.
Builds student choice into the process
Provides opportunities for feedback and revision of the plan and the project, just like in real-life
Requires Christians to present their problems, research process, methods, and results, just as scientific research or real-world projects must stand before peer review and constructive criticism