Training Starters
Training Starters help you plan trainings on key topics related to the subject matter. Click the different training starters below for tips on creating trainings that address your program needs and next steps.
Documenting Project-Based Learning
Develop staff understanding of 21st century skills in practice, and how to create targeted skill objectives for PBL.
Working With Groups
Build staff skills for facilitating youth work in groups.
My Notebook
Project-Based Learning
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Glossary
Project-Based Learning
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A process that highlights students actively collaborating together in small teams and with members of the community with the goal of solving stated.
Keeping an ongoing record of student work throughout a project and at the end, to determine progress, identify challenges, and demonstrate what is being learned
An open-ended question that a student team crafts (with help from an adult facilitator) and sets out to answer through an organized, project-based learning experience.
The end result of a project (a video, written report, advertising campaign, community action event, etc.) that students use to represent their work in the project’s culminating activity
A type of evaluation performed for the purpose of improving the performance of a person or program (see also: summative evaluation)
Learning through active exploration, problem solving and manipulation of materials rather than through the more traditional methods of content delivery, such as lectures and textbooks
Ability to suggest or design solutions to problems for which there may be no one right answer
A student-directed learning strategy by which young learners explore community-related topics of high interest to them through in-depth learning experiences lasting more than 3 days