Project Design Tools
PROJECT BLOCKING TOOL
Activities
- 3 Activities After Students Get the Problem
- Team Share Process
- News Circle
- Fever Pitch
- Jigsaw
- Shareouts
- How to Interview Well Workshop
- Human Centered Design: Empathy Mapping
- Decision Filter Activity
- Strengths Activity
- Big Idea Rapid Exercise
- Presenting: Setting Students Up for Success
- How to Present Well Workshop
- Presenting Well: Ad Activity
- Final Presentations
- Post Project Reflections and Feedback
Frameworks
External Research
Recommended Reading
- Implications for Educational Practice of the Science of Learning and Development by Linda Darling-Hammond, et al., Applied Developmental Science (2020).
- The Promise of Performance Assessments: Innovations in High School Learning and College Admission by Roneeta Guha, et al,. Learning Policy Institute (2018).
- Teaching for Meaningful Learning: A Review of Research on Inquiry-Based and Cooperative Learning by Brigid Barron, et al., book excerpt, (2008).
Useful Research Briefs
Science of Learning
- Academic Mindsets as a Critical Component of Deeper Learning, by C. Farrington, University of Chicago: Consortium on Chicago School Research (2013).
- Education for Life and Work: Developing Transferable Knowledge and Skills in the 21st Century by J.W. Pellegrino (ed.), National Research Council (2012).
- Social-Psychological Interventions in Education: They’re Not Magic by D. Yeager, Review of Educational Research (2011).
- Teaching Adolescents to Become Learners. The Role of Noncognitive Factors in Shaping School Performance: A Critical Literature Review, C. Farrington, University of Chicago: Consortium on Chicago School Research (2012).
Skills Gap & Education
- Pew Research: The Future of Jobs and Job Training (2017)
- SHRM Global Skills Shortage (2019)
- World Economic Forum: The 10 Skills You Need to Thrive in the Fourth Industrial Revolution (2016)
Collaboration
- Advancing the Science of Collaborative Problem Solving by A. Graesser, Psychological Science in the Public Interest (2018).
- The Science Behind the Growing Importance of Collaboration by B. Jones, Kellogg Insight (2017).
- When Senior Managers Won’t Collaborate by H. Gardner, Harvard Business Review (2015).
Complex Problem-Solving & Meaningful Work
- A Systematic Review of Problem Based Learning in Education by M. Zakaria, Creative Education (2019).
- Impact of Problem-Based Learning on Academic Achievement in High School: A Systematic Review by S. Wilder, Educational Review (2015).
- Interest and Self-Sustained Learning as Catalysts of Development: A Learning Ecology Perspective by B. Barron, Human Development (2006).
- Problem-Based Learning in K-12 Education: Is it Effective and How Does it Achieve its Effects? by C. Wirkala, American Educational Research Journal (2011).
- Problem-Based Learning: What and How do Students Learn? by C.E. Hmelo-Silver, Educational Psychology Review (2004).
- Self-determination Theory and the Facilitation of Intrinsic Motivation, Social Development, and Well-being by R. M. Ryan, American Psychologist (2000).
- Students’ Achievement Values, Goal Orientations, and Interest: Definitions, Development, and Relations to Achievement Outcomes by A. Wigfield, Developmental Review (2010).
Context & Strengths Based Approach
- How to Shift Education from Content to Context by T. Pickering, Education Reimagined (2019).
- Strength-based Performance Appraisal and Goal Setting by O. Bouskila-Yam, Human Resource Management Review (2011).
Reflection and Metacognition
- Developing Future Leaders: The Role of Reflection in the Classroom by C. Roberts, Journal of Leadership Education (2008).
- From the General to the Situated: Three Decades of Metacognition by P. Georghiades, International Journal of Science Education (2004).
- Metacognitive Knowledge Monitoring and Self-Regulated Learning by R. Isaacson, The Journal of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (2006).
- Reflection in Learning by B. Chang, B. Online Learning (2019).
Feedback
- Five Research-Based Tips for Providing Students with Meaningful Feedback by M. Stenger, Edutopia (2014).
- Instruction Based on Feedback by J. Hattie, Handbook of Research on Learning and Instruction (2011).
- Seven Keys to Effective Feedback by G. Wiggins, Educational Leadership (2012).
