January 2018 – Fayetteville PK8

Buck Institute – Why Project Based Learning

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DOK 3: Justify, some collaboration, abstract, real world, interdisciplinary, more than one answer, multiple approaches

DOK 4:
- Performance tasks are Key in the higher order DOK 3-4
- DOK 4 is “real world application” (application is a skill)
- The nature of a DOK 4 activity calls for a PBL -project based learning
- Take more time
- Rubric
- Product is important and different
- Teacher is facilitator…roles change as the student does the work
- Collaboration
- Students make decisions
- Students do research
- Challenge the kids
- Problem solving
- Higher order thinking –HOT
- Discovery & Inquiry
- Student does the work and they discovery through inquiry
- Cross disciplines
- Greater student autonomy…not cookie cutter
- They are not led, as they come to their own conclusions.
- Curve ball….. Throw on a “what if”, make it real world, this changes directions in thought…This is big, as it shifts the PBL to make them