{"id":61,"date":"2018-04-20T02:14:42","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T02:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/keridavis\/?p=61"},"modified":"2018-04-20T02:44:21","modified_gmt":"2018-04-20T02:44:21","slug":"pbl-rollercoaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/keridavis\/2018\/04\/20\/pbl-rollercoaster\/","title":{"rendered":"PBL Rollercoaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/keridavis\/files\/2018\/04\/Roller-coaster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-63\" src=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/keridavis\/files\/2018\/04\/Roller-coaster-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/keridavis\/files\/2018\/04\/Roller-coaster-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cohort21.com\/keridavis\/files\/2018\/04\/Roller-coaster.jpg 648w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 960px) 75vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Integrating PBL into our grade 2 program with the support of the Cohort 21 community has been a very positive experience. I was especially inspired by the message of &#8220;trying something new this coming Monday rather than someday&#8221; &#8211; as I&#8217;ve had many a someday plan that never came to fruition. I was determined not to let this happen to my PBL plans, so I quickly dove in and explored it with my grade 2 students. The process was a roller coaster ride of emotions, successes, and fails.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Ups&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>students&#8217; curiousity and wonderment revealed in their questions<\/li>\n<li>the entire 1st PBL project on animals<\/li>\n<li>independent PBL projects for students during guided writing periods<\/li>\n<li>support from our Head of Curriculum, librarian, and grade 4 reading buddies<\/li>\n<li>Google Hangouts with experts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The &#8220;Downs&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>research stages of our 2nd PBL project on countries<\/li>\n<li>finding reading material\/videos at individual ability levels to answer questions was very time consuming<\/li>\n<li>some struggled to find the answers to their questions even when books etc&#8230; contained the info they were looking for\n<ul>\n<li>some students lacked the persistence and risk taking necessary to find the answers to their questions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The &#8220;Loop de Loops&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>changing my HMW from PBL to gifted students and back to a PBL\n<ul>\n<li>thanks to fellow Cohort 21 participants it was brought to my attention that PBL is a great way to engage gifted students<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>full range of emotions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The &#8220;Thrill Factor&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the unknown paths (scary but exciting) the children&#8217;s questions would lead us down<\/li>\n<li>seeing different types of student thinking (more creative) than what is often seen during traditional lessons<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">I think the most valuable thing I learned from this experience is that it is ok to fail when you are trying something new. Although I&#8217;ve always encouraged my students to feel comfortable making mistakes I never gave myself the same permission. Not everything is going to turn out as expected, and it&#8217;s an important part of the learning process. This yearlong journey is &#8220;the end of beginning&#8221; of having the courage to take more risks in the classroom. I&#8217;m excited to see where this takes me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/presentation\/d\/e\/2PACX-1vTIeOOKlW_8FjFi_WPbexXo99_9Qpl9gCt71j_Mxxb9XIqVB8rq8Lzz42Jec3VSMPTfRtwhw8qno3ip\/embed?start=false&amp;loop=false&amp;delayms=3000\" width=\"960\" height=\"569\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Integrating PBL into our grade 2 program with the support of the Cohort 21 community has been a very positive experience. I was especially inspired by the message of &#8220;trying something new this coming Monday rather than someday&#8221; &#8211; as I&#8217;ve had many a someday plan that never came to fruition. I was determined not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/keridavis\/2018\/04\/20\/pbl-rollercoaster\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;PBL Rollercoaster&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-action-plan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/keridavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/keridavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/keridavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/keridavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/keridavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/keridavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/keridavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions\/68"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/keridavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/keridavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/keridavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}