PBL Reflection

Project based learning (PBL) is not something I really thought of before. I can honestly say that I didn’t really know what it was before the readings. I sometimes feel that if you aren’t a classroom teacher, you don’t get the same amount of training. Although it’s awesome to not have to sit in faculty meetings on math curriculum or new language arts standards, I think more often than not I miss a lot of important information shared at these meetings that relates to everyone. After reading about PBL, it makes a lot more sense to me. I interpret it as “learning by doing” which is my favorite way to teach! For instance, I teach my 4th and 5th graders how to read music. I could do it by simply showing them the notes and having my students commit it to memory. But they way I prefer to teach it is by starting them off on recorders. They learn to read the music because they have to in order to play the instrument. I use project based learning all the time, but not with technology. This is something I would like to work on in the future.