Project Based Learning – It is possible in the days of COVID!
How?
In this time of chaos, we are honored to introduce educators to Aloha-centered project based learning. We’d like to challenge you over the next week to reflect back, build steps today, and take action for tomorrow.
As we strive to connect, inspire, and ignite thought, action and success, each day we’ll ask you to reflect and share your thoughts, challenges and needs on Focused Reality’s Facebook page tagged with #AlohaPBL.
How?
In this time of chaos, we are honored to introduce educators to Aloha-centered project based learning. We’d like to challenge you over the next week to reflect back, build steps today, and take action for tomorrow.
As we strive to connect, inspire, and ignite thought, action and success, each day we’ll ask you to reflect and share your thoughts, challenges and needs on Focused Reality’s Facebook page tagged with #AlohaPBL.
In preparation of understanding where you’ve been and where you might be heading, with the overarching principle of Aloha, let the following questions trigger your thoughts in helping to ease your next steps forward.
Before
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Aloha-Centered Project Base LearningGetting Ready. Now what?
“See things as you would have them be instead of as they are.” Robert Collier There’s no denying today’s reality! The feelings are real as the days to the start of school slip quickly away? Yes, its only weeks before the 1st day of school for public and public charter educators with higher ED and private school educators to follow soon after. As we look back, it has definitely been a difficult couple of months with a lot of uncertainty of how school will look in the near future. Getting ready, are you looking to use project based learning strategies in the upcoming year? With these hopes in mind, we will continue to strive to help and support your efforts employing project based learning within your classrooms and throughout all grade levels. Enabling and enhancing the necessary connections to a rich project base learning environment is the foundation of Aloha. In 1970, Aunty Pilani Paki introduced its deeper meaning and understanding to the modern Hawai’i. Her students, Pono Shim, Ramsay Taum and Dr. Kū Kahakalau amongst others, continue to share and articulate the meaning of Aloha to all. As shared by Shim and Taum, Aloha is an overarching and spiritual principle, an action, “a way of being, a way of behaving, and a way of life”. “It is a spiritual principle that conveys the deepest expression of one’s relationship with oneself, the creative and life-giving forces, one’s family and community, and with one’s friends and strangers.” * Pono Shim and Ramsay Taum |
Action Step
Go Live on the Focused Reality's Facebook page tagged with #AlohaPBL” and share your strategies and ultimate goals for the upcoming year. Also, include challenges you’re feeling you’ll experience in the upcoming school year. Let us know what kind of help you may need to keep student engagement high? A PDF worksheet is available via the download button right under the DAY 1 image.
If you’ve thought about using project based learning strategies within your classroom, you might want to check out our FREE live virtual event on Aloha centered project base learning being offered throughout the next two weeks.
Here’s the link to the registration page.
If you’ve thought about using project based learning strategies within your classroom, you might want to check out our FREE live virtual event on Aloha centered project base learning being offered throughout the next two weeks.
Here’s the link to the registration page.
Aloha-Centered Project Base Learning
Reflecting back – Choosing a more engaging norm.
“It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.” Tony Robbins Now that you can picture your ultimate vision of the upcoming school year and what needs to happen, you’ll be able to uncover the possible solutions. Going deeper to find the solutions to the challenges you identified will help you move forward. With aloha as the foundation, the different elements of project base learning provide a rich learning environment in any classroom. Although Buck Institute for Education defines project-based learning in a specific way, their Gold Standard offers a comprehensive guide to help identify different aspects that could drive a rich learning environment in any classroom. |
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In preparation of finding the solutions, let the following questions trigger your thoughts in helping to ease your next steps forward …
Before
Before
- What do you find challenging when using projects as a way for your students to learn?
- When you imagine a learning environment guided by a project, what does it look like? How does it feel and how do you see your student’s level of engagement?
- How do you imagine a project based learning environment might look like in a hybrid or virtual model?
- What kind of help do you think you’ll need to keep your students engaged and providing this type of learning environment?
Action Step
Go Live on Focused Reality’s Facebook page tagged with #AlohaPBL. Share your before and after strategies and challenges you’re feeling you’d like to experience in the upcoming school year. Don’t forget, to list what kind of help you may need to keep engaging your student?
If you’ve thought about using project based learning strategies within your classroom, you might want to check out our FREE live virtual event on Aloha centered project base learning being offered throughout the next two weeks. Here’s the link to the registration page.
If you’ve thought about using project based learning strategies within your classroom, you might want to check out our FREE live virtual event on Aloha centered project base learning being offered throughout the next two weeks. Here’s the link to the registration page.
