PBL IMPLEMENTATION www.TINYURL.com/PBLclass2 WHAT WENT WELL? WHAT WAS MOST CHALLENGING? by Jeff Lonnett https://padlet.com/jvlonnett/rxcpqdvzqdqk en-us 2016-07-24 11:57:52 UTC 2025-10-03 04:19:59 UTC hello@padlet.com Robin Houlahan- Reflection on Mini Documentary/Multimedia Presentation PBL rshoulahan https://padlet.com/jvlonnett/rxcpqdvzqdqk/wish/431827898 Teacher: The products that the students produced were thoughtful and impressive. This being said, I need to work on a few logistical areas. I had regular check ins with students, but I should have graded them on the spot and entered grades right away because I am still catching up on entering grades. Most groups worked well together, but there were a few (2-3 groups) that had some issues with dividing the work. I did not have a system in place for grading to address these issues. In addition, I also did not include a formal self reflection piece for the students.

Student: Some of the students chose to animate their presentations and this ended up being a lot more time consuming than they imagined and they struggled to meet deadlines despite the time I gave them in class. ]]> 2020-01-15 13:48:00 UTC https://padlet.com/jvlonnett/rxcpqdvzqdqk/wish/431827898 What went well (Whitman)? https://padlet.com/jvlonnett/rxcpqdvzqdqk/wish/431827960 Student: 
- Able to work at own pace to complete assignment
- All students, no matter their strengths and weakness were able to complete the PBL

Teacher:  
-The time frame to instruct and complete the PBL was good. 
- Collaborating with Michelle Johnson (Librarian) and Christie Day in brainstorming ]]> 2020-01-15 13:48:09 UTC https://padlet.com/jvlonnett/rxcpqdvzqdqk/wish/431827960 English 11- Shark Tank PBL https://padlet.com/jvlonnett/rxcpqdvzqdqk/wish/431827993 +
My students produced extremely creative presentations. I was especially proud of some students with Autism that were pushed out of their comfort zone to present; their outcome got a standing ovation!

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My students and I struggled with the actual group work. Even after conferencing with groups and encouraging them to keep going, some groups completely failed at the project and with collaborating. It was hard to watch them fail.

]]> 2020-01-15 13:48:11 UTC https://padlet.com/jvlonnett/rxcpqdvzqdqk/wish/431827993 What went well https://padlet.com/jvlonnett/rxcpqdvzqdqk/wish/431828021 Students were interested and engaged in the project. The project applied to a ton of course standards. Students showed creativity and created professional products.]]> 2020-01-15 13:48:14 UTC https://padlet.com/jvlonnett/rxcpqdvzqdqk/wish/431828021 Census Project/ Pat ESOL https://padlet.com/jvlonnett/rxcpqdvzqdqk/wish/431828042 Teacher -Students were curious about the topic.  They worked well in small groups. 
There is so much background knowledge to learn before we can get to product.

Student-  Why isn't my teacher giving me all the answers?  There is a lot of new words to learn.   There is many questions T wants me to think about.  

Note: due to time constraints our class is just starting this project. We wanted to do this closer to roll out of Census. Got 6 new students right after Thanksgiving.


]]> 2020-01-15 13:48:16 UTC https://padlet.com/jvlonnett/rxcpqdvzqdqk/wish/431828042 Math 7- Tax Tip Discount "Night Out Project" kacarballo1 https://padlet.com/jvlonnett/rxcpqdvzqdqk/wish/431828049 Went well:  Students loved it!  They are still talking about it!  It was meaningful to them and they wanted to dive into the fun parts.
Most challenging: There are a lot of things I need to tweek about this PBL. Time for students to work was an issue and I did not do all parts well and haven''t followed through with authentic audience and presentations. ]]> 2020-01-15 13:48:16 UTC https://padlet.com/jvlonnett/rxcpqdvzqdqk/wish/431828049 World History https://padlet.com/jvlonnett/rxcpqdvzqdqk/wish/431828091 Teacher: Went Well
Students were interested in the project and asked follow up questions about the adopted children from India/China
Challenges
Researching the history of the cultures using databases challenged students to summarize large portions of text

Student: Went Well
Students took pride in completing the infographs because they saw the connection with the Adoption Agency that would receive their work
Challenges
Knowing what to focus on and summarizing information]]> 2020-01-15 13:48:21 UTC https://padlet.com/jvlonnett/rxcpqdvzqdqk/wish/431828091 Greece Multimedia Project https://padlet.com/jvlonnett/rxcpqdvzqdqk/wish/431828094 What went well - student choice on project and groups. Intro to project went well.

What did not go well - defining multimedia, students use of class time.

Students indicated during reflection (table talk and google form) that they liked the freedom of the project. Some students created a graphic novel while others did Tik Toks.]]> 2020-01-15 13:48:21 UTC https://padlet.com/jvlonnett/rxcpqdvzqdqk/wish/431828094 ESOL Census Project https://padlet.com/jvlonnett/rxcpqdvzqdqk/wish/431828103
Teacher View
Positives: Students were very brave in diving into the challenge question to come up with need to knows without much background knowledge.
They worked together to discuss knowns and unknowns.
Negatives:

Student View
Positives:
Negatives:]]> 2020-01-15 13:48:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jvlonnett/rxcpqdvzqdqk/wish/431828103 Civil Rights Advocacy Plan https://padlet.com/jvlonnett/rxcpqdvzqdqk/wish/431828183 What Went Well: Students were able to write about important events and people of the Civil Rights movement. They also were able to research the Equal Rights Amendment and gained an understanding.  Students liked having options as to what events to research.  

]]> 2020-01-15 13:48:32 UTC https://padlet.com/jvlonnett/rxcpqdvzqdqk/wish/431828183 ATOD 7 https://padlet.com/jvlonnett/rxcpqdvzqdqk/wish/431828377 Still in progress but opening event and second day exploring went well with some areas for improvement. We had to rush through the exploration day as it was the early dismissal but most students seemed to enjoy it. Could be tweaked as always improving wherever possible. Librarians were involved with the planning and days 1 and 2 implementation but now students are back in the classroom. We will be part of the final event when students do a share fair of their final products (in this case a PSA - video, pamphlet, display ect. of their choosing) closer to the end of the month.

]]> 2020-01-15 13:48:52 UTC https://padlet.com/jvlonnett/rxcpqdvzqdqk/wish/431828377 Active Physics https://padlet.com/jvlonnett/rxcpqdvzqdqk/wish/431828409 Went well--student engagement, teacher collaboration across our CT and our Librarian
Why--topic, students got to choose what they were researching]]> 2020-01-15 13:48:55 UTC https://padlet.com/jvlonnett/rxcpqdvzqdqk/wish/431828409 Reflection on Family Math Night https://padlet.com/jvlonnett/rxcpqdvzqdqk/wish/431828430 * More teachers got involved and, therefore, more students got involved in the project.
* On the night of the event, the refreshments came late so the student volunteers got distracted and weren't fully ready to lead Math game stations. 
* Students loved workshops to help them prepare for the skills they would need prior to the event.

]]> 2020-01-15 13:48:58 UTC https://padlet.com/jvlonnett/rxcpqdvzqdqk/wish/431828430 Human Impact PBL https://padlet.com/jvlonnett/rxcpqdvzqdqk/wish/431828465 What went well?
Teacher: Many students were engaged in the content and were excited to do outside research to learn more in order to include more detail. Students did this even though they didn't need to.
Student: Most of the information needed to be successful was learned in class. We were able to choose how the information was presented and who we worked with.

What was most challenging?
Teacher: Making sure that  reflection time and revisiting the "need to knows" were incorporated as much as necessary.
Student: There were periods of time where we were just learning information and didn't get a lot of work time in class.]]> 2020-01-15 13:49:01 UTC https://padlet.com/jvlonnett/rxcpqdvzqdqk/wish/431828465 Development PBL https://padlet.com/jvlonnett/rxcpqdvzqdqk/wish/431828543 Students were interested with the purpose of their learning

What was difficult was having examples for students and truly having a real world audience for their projects]]> 2020-01-15 13:49:08 UTC https://padlet.com/jvlonnett/rxcpqdvzqdqk/wish/431828543 PBL implementation https://padlet.com/jvlonnett/rxcpqdvzqdqk/wish/431828597 Teacher: time crunch; having to adhere to a tight schedule
Students: Eager to do something different]]> 2020-01-15 13:49:13 UTC https://padlet.com/jvlonnett/rxcpqdvzqdqk/wish/431828597 Shipman - Lanier Science: pollution in river, letter to congress https://padlet.com/jvlonnett/rxcpqdvzqdqk/wish/431828600 Well: Students were engaged, enjoyed the lessons. Made real life connections. 
Challenge: PBL was time consuming, grading the final project was a LOT. Ended up having to teach letter writing in order for students to understand how to write the letter. Driving question/need to know concept took some explaining for GenEd MS students. ]]> 2020-01-15 13:49:13 UTC https://padlet.com/jvlonnett/rxcpqdvzqdqk/wish/431828600 What went well.. (Civics) cacoyne https://padlet.com/jvlonnett/rxcpqdvzqdqk/wish/431828667 Students enjoyed picking their own topics & creating their own political parties.

Teacher- enjoyed being able to walk around & have personal discussions with student groups.]]> 2020-01-15 13:49:20 UTC https://padlet.com/jvlonnett/rxcpqdvzqdqk/wish/431828667 Biology https://padlet.com/jvlonnett/rxcpqdvzqdqk/wish/431828703 Teacher perspective--finding time while keeping up with team pacing guide and giving common assessments is very challenging; students cannot access websites --blocked by FCPS 
Students: Team members not all doing their part--feeling frustrated about the quality of work, learning how to communicate with peers in a constructive way, dealing with procrastinators]]> 2020-01-15 13:49:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jvlonnett/rxcpqdvzqdqk/wish/431828703 Walrod https://padlet.com/jvlonnett/rxcpqdvzqdqk/wish/431828869 Students were engaged and working throughout. Students seemed to enjoy the work we did. From a teacher perspective, I wish we had been able to dedicate more class time to working on it. ]]> 2020-01-15 13:49:41 UTC https://padlet.com/jvlonnett/rxcpqdvzqdqk/wish/431828869 Math: Geometry https://padlet.com/jvlonnett/rxcpqdvzqdqk/wish/431828906 The PBL was to calculate the measurements of geometric shapes, Students had to identify the shapes, identify the formulas for the shapes and complete the calculations.

Well: Students were engaged and presented well.

What did not go well: projects were very similar. ]]> 2020-01-15 13:49:45 UTC https://padlet.com/jvlonnett/rxcpqdvzqdqk/wish/431828906 What was most challenging https://padlet.com/jvlonnett/rxcpqdvzqdqk/wish/431829228 The PBL was very long. It spanned many concepts. I had some students tell me that they wished they had learned some of the later material earlier in the project so that they could better use it in their project. The way that I graded check points along the way was a lot for me. This could be managed better. Managing getting guest speakers to come for two whole days worth of presentations is difficult. ]]> 2020-01-15 13:50:14 UTC https://padlet.com/jvlonnett/rxcpqdvzqdqk/wish/431829228 Challenges overall https://padlet.com/jvlonnett/rxcpqdvzqdqk/wish/431829296 First time rolling out PBLs in both of my preps. One of the biggest challenges (or oversights) I had was having examples for the students to reference to for expectations but also having a real audience/authentic purpose for students to create/strive for]]> 2020-01-15 13:50:20 UTC https://padlet.com/jvlonnett/rxcpqdvzqdqk/wish/431829296 Racism Zine msafran https://padlet.com/jvlonnett/rxcpqdvzqdqk/wish/431829581 Students found real world application to our learning, dove deep in their personal interests.
Challenging: too many different modes (poetry, comics, articles, infographics) that I couldn't support students as much as they needed in each of them. I overestimated the writing ability they would have and the final product isn't very good. 

]]> 2020-01-15 13:50:45 UTC https://padlet.com/jvlonnett/rxcpqdvzqdqk/wish/431829581 What Was Most Challenging: https://padlet.com/jvlonnett/rxcpqdvzqdqk/wish/431830233 It was the first PBL, and it took lots of time to show them how to research and what sites were credible.

]]> 2020-01-15 13:51:53 UTC https://padlet.com/jvlonnett/rxcpqdvzqdqk/wish/431830233 Challenge: Time was crunched due to pacing of units. Had to modify to a smaller PBL. Looking forward to expanding next time once not already into unit and with whole unit and time constraints in mind. https://padlet.com/jvlonnett/rxcpqdvzqdqk/wish/431830510 2020-01-15 13:52:20 UTC https://padlet.com/jvlonnett/rxcpqdvzqdqk/wish/431830510 Challenge: https://padlet.com/jvlonnett/rxcpqdvzqdqk/wish/431830631 Teacher: 
- Full support from team around completing a PBL with all students.  
- Time to share how the experience was with the class.
- Prep work in setting the group up for success.

Student:
- Full understanding of what was expected in the final product.
- Having enough resources to complete the PBL in the allowed time.]]> 2020-01-15 13:52:32 UTC https://padlet.com/jvlonnett/rxcpqdvzqdqk/wish/431830631 Mo https://padlet.com/jvlonnett/rxcpqdvzqdqk/wish/431830665 Students are engaged. They share their inputs, collaborate, and work diligently.

Teacher (me) had to adapt (Students’ background knowledge / schema).

]]> 2020-01-15 13:52:36 UTC https://padlet.com/jvlonnett/rxcpqdvzqdqk/wish/431830665 Themed Design https://padlet.com/jvlonnett/rxcpqdvzqdqk/wish/431831181 WENT WELL:

100% student engagement in a class of 50 students all at once, even from my toughest student, has NEVER happened before in this class!!

 

MOST CHALLENGING:

Entrance Event
Time Management

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