I often talk about authentic learning, real-life and cross-curricular learning opportunities for students. One way to increase authentic learning is through problem-based learning (PBL - because we love acronyms in education). If you aren't familiar with PBL, check out this quick overview: http://www.pblproject.com/page.aspx?pageid=PBL-Hinton-video.
I receive weekly emails from the PBL Project and as appropriate, share them with various teachers. However, as I think about upcoming service learning in Flyertime, I can't help but think that those will be PBL activities: How do we honor our local military personnel? How do we show veterans that we appreciate what they've done for us? How do we help families torn apart by long separation?
Giving students a problem and requiring them to apply their learning to develop a solution is a great way to generalize school to life!
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