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In my opinion, PBL is the way of teaching when our students are the protagonist and teacher teach in a interdisciplinary way where everyone are involved.

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Maria Grazia Giammorcaro (Italy)

With the PBL the teacher there Presents Problem of the United Nations, not lessons, tasks or exercises. As there IS a given content, your learning becomes active in the sense That you discover and Work with content What you feel are necessary to solve the problem.
The PBL offers the possibility of:

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I like PBL because it trains students how to solve real-world problems. From my understanding, many students are not engaged in their learning because they don't know how the skills that they learned in class can apply to real-world situations. I think the real-world connection is challenging because having an authentic problem to solve is the first step to motivating the students. Authentic problems need to have possible solutions and also link to the curriculum, which we don't have enough time to teach the syllabuses. The teacher also has to teach the students the skills to solve the problems, which may require more than one teacher in a classroom.

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I like PBL because it trains students how to solve real-world problems. From my understanding, many students are not engaged in their learning because they don't know how the skills that they learned in class can apply to real-world situations. I think the real-world connection is challenging because having an authentic problem to solve is the first step to motivating the students. Authentic problems need to have possible solutions and also link to the curriculum, which we don't have enough time to teach the syllabuses. The teacher also has to teach the students the skills to solve the problems, which may require more than one teacher in a classroom.

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Very interesting!

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I ifind PBL approach quite useful but for a good PBL activity each student of the group must have a resposability

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I find PBL approach quite useful, challenging and interesting for long-life learning even though I think teachers should it into practice a lot so that it can be easy to carry out without spending too much time or wasting it.

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All the five keys are important and necessary. I think I have to improve my core to learning, because I teach English and sometimes when I prepare the scaffolding of a project I only pay attention to the driving question or the main topic and not to the formal aspects of the language itself. And, as a consequence, I have to improve also the assessment of these aspects.

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For a good PBL activity, each student of the group must have a responsabilty.

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In some classes, it is quite difficult to get the students to participate actively. That's the biggest challenge

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Cooperative learning and learning by doing are effective strategies; However, it is important to keep in mind the composition of the groups so that the collaboration functions can in fact happen that some active part while the other passively enjoy the work of others. In such a context it is important that everyone has specific tasks and that their contribution is crucial to the continuation of the activity. For this reason it is essential learning by doing to give motivation to those who otherwise would play a passive role. As for the spaces I think in situations like ours with small classrooms and often without instruments the learning environment should be dilated, a sort of augmented reality that can facilitate simulations of problems related to real contexts. The thing that worries me most is the assessment because in cooperative activity should be evaluated skills that go beyond the taught discipline: the so-called soft skills. The evaluation rubrics help much, but we have to learn how to better structure them and to know how to transform the skills acquired in a numeric value that is the final grade of the evaluation document

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I think that the challenge is flip over the point of view of learning, through collaboration and communication sharing difficulties and benefits.

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Components of good PBL
I find that the most challenging component of a good PBL is to have our student take action in their learning process. Education in Italy is still a lot of teaching without real participation on the part of the student.  And the way to obtain this participation is to find the real world connection, something students know is part of their real life  and feeling that they can DO something to change or improve a situation they all know.
A good deal of work has still to be done also about assessment and the fundamental role of failure to build good problem solvers and conscious citizens :)

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Anna cairone Italy.it'very interesting and new for me and the most changelling is core to learning but i guess how it's possible to realize that  teaching a foreign language, i mean to let the students feel what they're learning is a real task 

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Anna cairone Italy.it'very interesting and new for me and the most changelling is core to learning but i guess how it's possible to realize that  teaching a foreign language, i mean to let the students feel what they're learning is a real task 

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For me that the biggest challenge is about the passivity of my students in lessons and getting them to take the initiative and collaboration

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I think that the most challenging opportunity is to involve all students and coordinate their work in P .I like to involve even lazy and weak students ,so they do not feel "different students".Sometimes many conflicts occure. Challenging is also to have a positive and happy attitude towards parents, students and other colleagues.

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My learning teaching is based on a communicative approach, so I think that the 5 components or keys are surely useful because   students can be more engaged and self-directed learners. Furthermore they can learn more deeply, transfer their learning to new situations and improve problem solving and collaboration skills. But it isn't always easy to involve students because of their lack of intetest and, sometimes, passivity. I try to stimulate them with appealing topics and let them work in group according to their particular skill ( leadership, creativeness, organization, etc). Recently I experimented the "flipped class " at school and my students were enthusiastic. It was successful and I think the PBL is something more I can do for my students. All I have learned in this course I will try to apply in my classes.

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Mariangela -Italy

I think that, linking learning to a real operative context, is for students motivating and effective.  They work and “fight” to obtain their goals without revealing boredom, tiredness, as they usual do, during long hours of traditional  lectures. Problems could be the lack of classroom spaces or well equipped laboratories we need and  numbers of students difficult to organize. Students themselves are not well trained to work together so when they work in group, quite often, only a few students complete their task. Undoubtedly because they are not used to. Giving them different and precise roles is, I think, very important as well as priorities and specific targets and goals, step by step.  At present certainly passivity of students could be a problem but I think that this issue might be overcome thanks to time and determination. Other problems affecting PBL are the strict rules to follow to complete the National curricula and the way in which teachers  could adapt PBL to  time frames and modules.

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I appreciate all the five keys: they seem to me all important and necessary to use. In my teaching practice I often use structured collabotation: my students work in pairs or in group to develop a part of a topic we are learning in class, but they have to do that at home because at school it is not possible and we have to go ahead with the . When involved in their learning process students are enthusiastic and are able to produce sometimes very good works, finding out something new. So, I think I have to improve my core to learning, understanding well how to develop all the topics I need to teach to my students.

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In my opinion assessment is the most challenging, because our curriculum requires very regular and rigid summative assessments. Student driven is hard too, because I have to learn how to give hints but not answers.

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I think students need to be more active in their process of learning. The PBL gives them this opportunity because this approach fosters collaboration and both emotional and cognitive involvement.

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The most challenging part for me is how to apply PBL daily in a foreign language class Effective collaboration is one of the main aspects of PBL but unfortunately greek schools are ready yet to accept this

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I think that PBL is a great approach because students can explore problems and challenges in the real world and acquire a deeper and meaningful knowledge.
I must confess I'm a bit worried about the possibility for some students to get lost in the WWW and assessment might be difficult. However, I'm a big fun of the 4 Cs of education!

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I believe that PBL approach is a good opportunity to bring the school to the work reality. So I think that each assesments is important to realize a good PBL design. Anyway, I lay first teamwork, because you can't talk about your project if you do not talk about sharing ideas first.

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In  my opinion, each skill is challenging as it implies a change in the current education system and methodology. In particular, as a foreign language teacher I wonder how I can promote real word connection in a language.

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Carme Masdevall (Spain)
My concerns about the components to PBL are the following ones:

- Core to Learning: will it really have academic rigor? Will I end up teaching the curriculum and learning objectives that the government set up? Sometimes I think that I will miss some points on that.

- Structured collaboration: will I really be able to give each student a role and will these roles be equivalent in effort? Or will these roles teach all the students the curricular objectives? In the video a student says that he was the team leader in the project; two members were the thinkers (they come up with the ideas), another member was the designer (how can we make it?) and the team leader -again- would take the final decision.

- Student driven: will the students get really engaged and finish the project successfully?

- Multifaceted assessment: will I be albe to assess them in a fairly enough way? If they have different tasks within a project will I need to use different rubrics?

These are the questions that arise when I think of putting PBL into practise.

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Some of the components for effective collaboration are really challenging for me to realize for different reasons.
What I want to say is that even if I try  to carry out effective collaboration,  my classroom space does not always lend itself well to group work . The students  generally  outnumber the room available  and it is difficult to move freely through the desks.
Another pitfall is assessment . In fact it could be a hard task to implement since my  syllabus requires very  regular summative assessments and  I'll have very little time left to devote to PBL approach.
Anyway, I think PBL should be the driving engine to stop our students from getting boring lessons mainly focused on face-to-face with the teacher or on individual oral/written testing assessing their knowledge of the subject matters. I'll try to distribute the 3 lessons per week in each class in the following way:  1 hour of  English language, 1 hour of English literature/civilization, 1 hour  (the last but not the least!) PLB approach. And I hope it will  be a fair start!

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Among the 5 keys in the PBL approach, I suppose that  the first one ( REAL WORLD CONNECTION) is the most challenging because having an authentic problem to solve is the first step to motivate students, So, teachers can help students only if they are involved in the activities; possible solutions to problems are relevant to students if  problems are real to them and they will collaborate in their own learning process

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Well I think PBL in general is challenging. The space at school does not lend itself Well to group work. The computer lab, for instance, is not flexible, while boys is forbidden... Our curriculum require regular and rigid assessments. They will get in the way of PBL. My students are not passive at all! That' s a strength point.  To me the most challenging component is the real-world connection, because there's a gap between school and real world in Italy, but things are changing. The law about school and internship has changed a lot recently.

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I like very much PBL. Unfortunately schools in Italy are not ready to apply it. PBL facilitates cooperative learning, socialization, friendship. I hope I can use it as soon as possible. Thank TeacherAcademy for this course

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PBL reinforces problem solving skills if scaffolding is very carefully designed.
Form me this is an extremely important component to be taken into consideration when , we teachers, design activities for our students.
There are 5 fundamental keys when using PBL:
- Real-world connection which is necessary if we want to catch our students' attention.
- Core to learning to challenge our students.
- Structural collaboration together with cooperation and creativity.
- Students driven if we want them to get more involved in the activities they are doing.
- Multifaceted assessment to contribute to their own learning process.

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Effective collaboration is one of the main aspects of PBL. Yet it is also a very difficult objective to achieve, on account of a set of consolidated attitudes shared by my students. Individualism prevails and learning is seen as something given for granted at the end of the lesson depending on the teacher's ability to transmit his knowledge. Group organization is still a problem for me and requires a careful distribution of tasks, because students tend to lean on brighter and more motivated students, skipping their duties and responsabilities.

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PBL teacher's role changes, from the transmitting and one that puts notes, becomes a facilitator, a mediator who becomes the one who guides the one who guides his students together.

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I think core to learning is the most challenging. I teach ESL, so the main goal should be to learn the language by using it. PBL can give students the opportunity to use language for different purposes and this is fantastic, but I don't think I can use it as the only teaching and learning approach.

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In the beginning, preschoolers, working at their own pace, but gradually get to work at a pace of activity. Assessment is required at all times. It evaluates every activity, every project. The first assessment we do, then the child: through self-assessment or peer. Involving children in evaluation is an exercise of control activities are of learning. Also, the computer should be an effective means of teaching and evaluation. Personal example - the best evaluation activities realize a drawing. Believe me if at age three scribbled, six years are really creative designs.

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The components of Good PBL are described below...

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Real world, Core to learning, Collaboration, Student driven, Multifaceted Assessment

According to me all the components are challenging in different scenarios. The components most feasible should be implemented in the PBL. If the goal is certain then automatically the learning’s will be made by students through immense research, experiments. This will again call for collaboration with other sets of students which will enhance the teamwork spirit, exchange of ideas, solutions for the problem etc. As all the things coming from students with the guidance of a teacher the assessment could be made on the basis of the teams’ efforts, their solutions to the problem. Even individual assessment can be done by assessing them on the basis of their contribution in the project.

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I find the CORE TO LEANING the most challenging. It needs a lot of practice to facilitate learning without hands-on examples. Leading the way is sometimes considered criticism by students and the fact that they have to figure out the way to "how to" just makes some of them give up from the very beginning. Planning is for me a good way of filling the free moments of the day, so I hope that after all it won't be a challenge impossible to deal with.

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The most challenging is Core to Learning because teachers are not used to it, I mean, to teach contents this way. The component Student driven can also be a challenge since some students are accustomed to passivity and sometimes it’s not easy to get them all take the initiative.

Until this year, the Portuguese curriculum required very regular and rigid summative assessments which certainly got in the way of PBL. However, it seems next year things will change or at least it seems it will change. The focus will be on teaching practice and on students’ needs. So, let’s wait and see…

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There are 5 central keys in the PBL approach:

1.      REAL WORD CONNECTION: having an authentic problem students should explore the possible solution;

2.      CORE TO LEARNING: is the way students learn the content;

3.      STRUCTURED COLLABORATION: students should have an assigned task and do it during a scheduled period;

4.      STUDENT DRIVEN: the teacher becomes more a facilitator and the students take more control; learning goals are persuasive speech, collaboration and team work, critical thinking skills.

5.      MULTIFACETED ASSESSMENT: students are part of the assessment processand their assessment has not just been done to them.

I think that the most challenging key for me to realize is the 4th (STUDENT DRIVEN )because of the passivity of my students in lessons : it’s not easy to get them to take the initiative.

They always need the teacher support to develop the required activities, otherwise most of them won’t do it.

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It is important for teachers understand the role they play in developing critical thinking which is different by the role they usually have. The teachers become facilitators, mentors  that allow the discussion and encourage understanding.

The difficult is  that thinking critically does not always end with a right answer, but instead sometimes ends in more questions about the topic

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Making PBL core to learning is the most challenging aspect, in my opinion. I don't doubt that I would eventually be able to incorporate all of the curricular goals of my subject (Chemistry and Physics) in project activities, but I cannot see how would it be possible to use this approach exclusively. I would have to rely more on my class management skills and do an enormous amount of planning, but I'm fine with that. I mean, overcoming challenges is what we do for a living as teachers. But using PBL exclusively?

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The most challenging would probably be making students be in the center of their learning.

The question of assessment would be also difficult specially when parents(in my school) are so focus on great marks and they are worried when their children don’t have great marks comparatively with other students

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In  my opinion, each skill is challenging as it implies a change in che current education system and methodology. In particolar, as a foreign language teacher I wonder how I can promote real word connection in a language

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I've never approached my English lesson using PBL. Students were simply required to do some domestic research on the subject matter we were dealing with. An example: 'How can Lady Macbeth's madness be viewed in the psychiatric field?'
Anyway, if I consider these elements of the video - structured collaboration, student drive as being part of the assessment project, real-world connection, multifaceted assessment - I can desume that the traditional methodology is quite lacking the involving matter of the teaching/learning process.

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PBL could be a great opportunity for my science lessons; it's really interesting discuss and find a solution for real problems in our community; these projects help our students to growth as responsable citizens. I think that the most challenging components is surely the assessment; it's difficult to shift from regular rigid evaluations to group, project-based assessment.

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I have some doubts in the application of PBL. I do not mean that I'm wanting to get'so obstacles not to advance, but there is true.
The students' work may require materials and an extra charge at my school is out of the question. Enough to say that spending on photocopies are quite controlled and all expenses must be with a plausible justification (remember we are in cost containment).

The math program - 10 to 12 years - is too long and a little inappropriate to the ages of the students, often using the abstract thinking when students are yet to begin this phase. The math program has undergone several changes in a very short time. Do not study the results of the various changes. It does not come to a conclusion. Changes itself simply.
The school wants to know, at the end of each period and at the end of the year summative assessment to compare with the external evaluation. The external assessment consists of tests and national final exams or tests gauging. All these tests are made at national level. The comparison between the internal results and results in national tests is inevitable and places the school in a bad or good category, are the rankings.

From what I understand the previous video application of PBL students are also well prepared for these tests, I hope so be it because they do not have success now and who knows if this situation does not change with the PBL.
The passivity of the students is really a concern, especially students who have many difficulties are alienated and do not take the initiative, do not participate and do not have any motivation. From what I understand the PBL is perfect for these students. From what I understand will be even better for students who are normally accustomed to failure, because the PBL they just work and they acquire either the content or by developing the necessary capabilities.

I still have many doubts, I realize that PBL has everything positive, but should I make a guide for students to follow. Tell them the content they have to learn from the work that will develop, or simply throw them a problem and to present the possible way to solve. The more I think I'm more confused ... I wait.

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I teach students aged 11-14 years old and it is often difficult to have them work in groups, because they often chat or argue or even fight, because they're still very young and immature. However, I think that implementing PBL even at this young age would help them learn such social skills as cooperation and respecting others, which is paramount to develop at this stage of their lives.

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I think that the major challenge in my classroom will be assessments, as in Italian education there is a quite rigid and summative assessment of knowledge and it is difficult to implement different methods of assessing the students progresses.

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This video provides a nice overview of the five key components we need to get right in order to make PBL a success.

In my opinion, and thinking about my class, the component I feel will be the most challenging is having student driven activities. At younger ages (10-12), I think it is more difficult to have students at the centre of their own learning and make them understand the value of the subject.

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In Italian classrooms they are not prepared to let the students work in team. In Italy, the evaluation system could well adapt to a work PBL since it must take into account the learning objectives that can be achieved through countless strategies so that all students can learn according to their own abilities and their own cognitive style.

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I think that both effective collaboration and multifaceted assessment are the most challenging. I think each project requires a different rubric and, apart from this, it is difficult to combine this form of evaluation with "traditional" testing which is still required by our education authorities. As for connection with real worl, it takes a lot of effort, papers and formalities to achieve it.

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-Real World Connection for me is the very basic think from what we must develop our teaching. Our students lack motivation and let them see the connection between what they are supposed to study and the utility/necessity of it could  represent the right push.

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I feel the biggest challenge in implementing PLB in my classroom/school will be multifaceted assessment. The end of the year and the end of school assessment are very rigid and summative and the whole Irish education is very much exam/points driven. As a result a lot of classroom teaching is being spent teaching for the exam. I work in the school where we are actively trying to overcome those obstacles, but in the end everyone (parents and students) is looking for good exam results.

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I'd really like to be connected with real world. I think the best way to learn is to go outside the school walls, but in my experience this is very difficult to realize because of the laws.
I like very much the selfassessment, but this and the peer assessment are quite far to our practice. We give more attention to votes and final reports.
I'm sure the project have to be the core of learning that's one and I have to care with all the activities.
I don't know if I can compare the structured collaboration with cooperative learning, but i Like to work in group and i think the social skills are one of the most important aims in the primary school. Surely it isn't so easy to do it.
Also the !student driven" in a primary school is not immediate; there's learner with disabilities or special needs and they need of my guide

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Project-based learning in the basic steps:

1. The determination of targets.
2. Work to be done or determined that the topic would be defined.
3. The creation of the team.
4. Determining the properties and the format of the presentation of the final report.
5. Creation of a work calendar.
6. Determination of control points.
7. Determination of evaluation criteria and proficiency levels.
8. Collection of information.
9. Organized reporting of information.
10. Presentation of the project

When examined, the processing steps of the basic planning phases after collecting information and organize the collected information and the reporting phase; during this phase, the information literacy concept requires discussion.

Information literacy, in short, access to information and the ability to use information (AASL/AECT, 1998) is defined as. Information to be Information literate feel it when the need arises, and access to needed information, evaluate, and use effectively.

Students with these skills in the electronic environment both inside the classroom and are the responsibility of the participant, researcher, information reaching the individuals and uses information.

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The five main components to PBL are Real World Driven, Core to Learning, Structured Collaboration, Student Driven and Multifaceted Assessment.
In my opinion, the most challenging component is multifaceted assessment because as humans we are destination driven. We focus on the outcome. I feel humans mindsets to assessment will be challenged with the integrated assessment throughout. I like this PBL approach as many students & teachers are missing out on seeing the enjoyment in every moment of teaching & learning with this destination focus mindset.

Some students will worry about the expectations within the assessment process, this will need to be made clear. If students feel hard done by within the job roles, will they give up trying early in the project. If there are disagreements within the groups, students will want to know if this affects their summative assessment. Assessment will need to be clear so that the process remains structured in reaching the overall outcome.

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There are several constraints: the need to meet the program; small rooms and unable to work in groups; students have difficulty collaborate without creating indiscipline; students are not used to reflect and evaluate, etc.

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PBL is the challenge, but as a Primary teacher  I think the more challenging component could be ‘Student driven’. I’m not the only teacher for a group and I spend my schedule going from one group to another each 50 minutes and I think this is very unpleasant for both, me and the pupils, when you go to another class with the feeling that never end the task. Moreover, in my school the common teaching-learning pattern is based upon the following belief: if the teacher don’t explain, the pupils don’t learn, so these have a very low level of autonomy. Otherwise I need more training about how to manage my classes to work with such proposals and how to survive in such a rigid school system.

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I think the most challenging thing is finding the right project, the one that will engage students into real learning in an exciting and motivational atmosphere, instead of in a very instructional one.
Engaging students with special needs and those who show an unrespectful behaviour is really tricky and challenging.

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1. I find it difficult to assess as I have huge classes
2. I find it difficult to engage ALL group members. some just piggyback
3. Most important of all I really don't know how to apply it to my subject which is 'foreign language'

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As I’ve said in several occasions, I’m not teaching now, so I will try to suppose my answer to the question about the five components I feel would be the most challenging for me to realize:

1.     Real world connection: I think this key component is easy to get. I usually focus on real problems to develop a topic as this makes the learning processes meaningful.

2.     Core to learning: This one is more difficult as our curriculum wasn’t update. Since this school year a new educational law focus the teaching and learning process on key competences. The difficult thing is to change the way we have been working for years.

3.     Structured collaboration: I think this is a matter of time. I mean, pupils get used to work in collaborative groups if teachers plan their lessons to use this type of work. At the beginning could be a mess but pupils learn soon how to work as a team.

4.     Student driven: I think this key component has the same problem than the collaborative work. As soon pupils understand which are their tasks, which their roles are, they will manage the different phases of the project.

5.     Multifaceted assessment: We have to learn new ways of assess. Rubrics and new assessment tools must be used.

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The element that troubles me is that of assessment, the acceptance of a new different system of assessment from students, parents and colleagues as well. In formal secondary education there are specific standards on assessment that need to be met, evaluation through tests. It will be a challenge to try and combine PBL at the same time as following the curriculum centrally set by the ministry of education. It would be interesting to know if other participants face similar problems in their countries or they have more freedom in selecting their pace-curriculum and content.

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I have doubts about the group formation (how? how many) and adaptability of the classroom.In my school, teachers use traditional methods. Anyway basic steps of PBL are

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I agree with the fact that PBL as a whole is challenging especially when your education system isn't really adapted to it but ...challenges are great!

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The most challenging part for me is how to apply PBL daily in a foreign language class. I can imagine how PBL works in a Science, Chemistry or History class, just to name a few, but how are students going to learn a foreign language using PBL alone? What kind of projects can I suggest them if language is a tool and the aim at the same time? PBL makes a lot of sense in a CLIL context though.

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I think that working in appropriate classroom where my students can work in group is very important. If they don't have the possibility to work with computer for researches, for examples, or to have appropriate instruments to work in group it could be difficoult for me as a teacher to hold their attention and for them to keep on doing the lesson.
I think the most challenging for me to realize a PBL is to find the correct way to introduced an interesting "problem" to solve, something connected to real life and to the programme I have to teach. In Italy we have to follow National guidelines and the classic frontal lesson is the most common-Furthermore my curriculum requires regulare and summative assessment
I prefer that my students are active during the lesson, asking me about what we are doing, or how the lesson could evolve.
PBL, as cooperative learning, is the good way thelp students to face problem in their future.

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If the students suffer from a skill gap or the current workforce can't keep up with the changing dynamics, it's time for a change. I think that PBL gives us this opportunity through involving all actors in the learning process and providing the right environment.  In this process students are in a good position to identify their areas for future development and to analyse their skills.

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In Primary Education, I think that the element of collaboration is very difficult! They don't know how to work together contributing to a project! Of course, careful planning and guiding is needed on the part of the teacher! It is more difficult to plan a project, assign roles, encourage all the pupils, deal with pupils who prefer working alone or who dispute with others! I believe it takes time to make them adapt to this method although they usually like it more!!! Assessing the collaboration within a project is also a key component and pupils should be taught to pay attention to that as well!

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In my opinion , the most difficult parts of the PBL approach are:
1.The contact  with real world in all subjects. The real  world connection is hard for some lessons
2.Core learning is a hard approach to.
But the implementation of PBL in the classroom is a challenge on itself.

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The advantage of using the PBL methodology is surely to bring students into contact with the real world. This means that they must make use of their knowledge. The possibility of identifying the right strategy to solve a problem requires a comparison through discussion, in other words, the students work together. Teachers can scaffold and guide students by defining the specific competencies used in the project.  This form of collaboration allows the use of all the skills. The teachers have the opportunity to carry out a multifaceted assessment.

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I think the most difficult point is the assessment.It is very difficult to change the methods of assessment and I think that the only way to do it is to build and share the assessment rubrics with students.​

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Sundari Vijaybabu, Mindbox

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For me the most challenging is the multifaceted evaluation that has to adapt to different projects in the classroom and the different roles played by each member of a team. They will also have to be reflected in evaluation of knowledge required by the education system therefore the translation of this assessment in a final rating must be careful to be accepted by students and parents.

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All the five components of PBl , as far as I am concerned, are challenging, In fact, real world connection , core to learning , students driven , multifaceted assessment and structured collaboration are components that are important and that must draw our attention in order to think and prepare very carefully our projects. How can we have our pupils working on real world problems, using the curriculum, giving them a role of leaders previewing and working with a multifaceted assessment . And all of this taking into account a group where everybody is the one in the right place, and so contributing with his special skills to the group work. This is really a big challenge.

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With regard to the 5 components of the PBL, I feel that the biggest challenge will be to promote a structured colaboration and have a multifaceted Assessement, since students often are individualists and only concerned with traditional summative assessments.

Another challenge that liked to share, is the reaction of parents face this kind of approach. Many find that this type of approach does not promote learning, are just lose class time.What is your opinion on this issue?

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These five components are the key for a BPL approach.
Real-world connection gives them the chance to appreciate that their learning is functional in their real lives.
Core to learning is essential in this approach since traditional methodologies focus on contents rather than competences.
Structured collaboration: It means that students may work collaboratively but teams have to be set up wisely. Students may not be joined together at random. We have to be aware of the roles they play among their partners and we have to forward their abilities.

Students driven: Related to the previous issue,once students understand their roles within their teams it will be easy that their learning will be cooperative and they may have more resposibilities with regards to the learning process. The teacher becomes a guide of the students' acquisition and they are the protagonists of their learning.

Multifaceted assssment:  probably the traditional assessement have to be changed. Rubrics and observation practices will replaced it.

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To me, real-world connection and Assessment are the most challenging. Asking the right question, the one that will trigger Students' curiosity and will make them interested enough to find a solution as well as finding the correct way to assess their involvement and their work.

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if i have to implement pbl in my way of teaching i believe that i ​would find difficult the step1 especially in bigger students because they only read for their final exams for univercity. also, maths are not interesting as pgysics or chemistry or gardening..... you dont construct the result ...is just a number.... you may use maths for construct something or make conclusion of an survey... you have to add it with something else.so the first 2 steps are dificult for me as i am thinking know, the other three are ok. i dont have the confidence for the example i would choose would effectively make the students learn a specific topic. it is not in our curruculum and that makes you weak infornt of the parents of the children or the headmaster or the rest colleagues.

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I think that all the five components are challenging while applying PBL in class. The most important, for me, is the real world connection. This really can motivate pupils to work as a team in order to face a problem and to end up in a result which can be showed in life outside the class. Teacher's role is challenging in this process because he/she must design innovative learning activities for this purpose.

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Five Essential Keys to Rigorous Project-Based Learning

1) Real world connection

2) Core to learning

3) Structured collaboration : very carefully scaffolded tasks

4) Student Driven : teacher becomes facilitator, student takes more control. Teacher asks good questions, gives hints, but not the answers.
5) Multifaceted assessment : small checks, pupils assessing themselves, peer-assessment

The component that is challenging for me to realize is the multifaceted assessment. My pupils and I are familiar with self-assessment, but I would like to have some more advice about peer-assessment.

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I think that applying PBL in class is a challenge on its own! For me what is very important is to connect learning with the real world. I teach English , so it is very beneficial for my students to use the language they are taught in real life situations. This is the way to realize that apart from grammar and vocabulary, communication is one of the basic uses of any language. A great challenge is also the assessment part. I believe that we should all be trained on how to assess not only other peoples work, but mainly ours. Self assessment is the key to realize your strong points and your weaknesses and accordingly elaborate or work towards improvement.

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​There are lots of different ways, as Peggy Ertmer says,  but are 5 essential keys:

- real- world connection        having an authentic problem that drives the curriculum  their work has an audience outside the   (school, this   motivates them  to    deepen their thinking)

- core to learning  provides academic rigor

- structured collaboration      allow the students to work together within a        structure

- student driven   teacher is more then a facilitator; he gives hints but not            answers and students  take more  control

- multifaceted assessment    assessment is throughout the entire activity, a lot of      small   check -ins, students have also to assess themselves

PBL is a way to reach all students and get them engaged

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I think that the most challenging component is the effective collaboration and that’s why I’m used to ask my students to work in groups. Of course real world connection is important because students are more motivated when they work on real tasks and they have to face problems and share their results. I also think that the learning environment is a key factor of successful teaching/learning. I’d like to teach in a sort of “flexible classroom” and I also think that it’s necessary to redesign the classroom space.

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According to me all the five keys are important and connected to each other. Real-world connection, structured collaboration and student driven are the keys I consider the most challenging.

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I think that all the keys are very important and they work like a chain.
I thought my class this year I think the key that the
children will be more complicate is Structured collaboration.
Children at the age of 9-10 years is difficult to work in
groups and collaborate eliminating competition that often feed and parents from
home.

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All the things are important  - for me and for the students! The most important is the connection with me and my students. 

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All the things are important  - for me and for the students! The most important is the connection with me and my students. 

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Jurgita, Lithuania

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I think that that the most challenging thing has nothing to do with students and envolving them..i think that the most challenging thig is envolving other teachers and scolastic system.

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thersa from Italy (I'm still working on my English so I apologize if there are mistakes or.....Horrors...)

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thersa from Italy (I'm still working on my English so I apologize if there are mistakes or.....Horrors...)

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FIVE KEYS TO RIGOUROUS PBL:

1. Real world connection

2. Core to learning

3. Structured collaboration

4. Student driven

5. Multifaceted assessments.

I believe that this method is easy to apply in high schools. It could lead to significant changes in primary school but I think they are also important structures, materials and laboratories where to leave the children to work. Another key thing is the collaboration and cooperation among teachers. In Italy too many teachers are demotivated and they do not work more willingly. The pbl method with its five keys may actually be a burst of renewal to the Italian school

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I think the most challenging is the student driven component, since there not use to the PBL approach, and therefore are not very independent in their working process.

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Emilia, Italy

I think PBL is really challenging for Teachers and students, but I find it difficult to apply it.I teach English  and it seems hardto scaffold a projectfor a foreign Language by PBL. The hardest part to adapt seems the student driven part to adapt to the Italian curricula.

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Core Learning is the most challenging key1 Being a teacher requires strong self-esteem, in order to transfer it to the students! For this reason I'm attending this course, trying to do my best in improving my skills as a teacher!

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The most challenging things for me and my students could be: core learning, structured collaboration and multifaceted assessment.
For me it is difficult to think problem, and let students find answers. I must plan everything and forsee where they can have problems.  Sometimes they need help.
And last thing what I don't understand is multifaceted assessment.

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Core learning is the key I feel most challenging! Being a teacher requires a strong interior self esteem in order to transfer it to the students! I'm attending this course because I need to be sure that I'm doing the best to training myself in this direction!

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For me the hardest thing to achieve is student driven and getting students to keep actively engaged and not being lazy. Trying to engage student and helping them be responsible in their team and contributing.