PBL Design Institute

This four-day institute, also known as Harris Institute, provides participants with experience as PBL learners engaged in a problem. From this experience, the participants analyze the critical elements of IMSA's PBL model through dialogue with fellow participants and facilitators. They apply this knowledge as they engage in the design process for a problem to be used in their own classrooms. Participants receive instruction and mentoring from a team of experienced PBL educators. More...

 

PBL Coaching Institute

This intensive two-week session features two major components. During the first week, participants experience PBL as learners engaged in a problem. In the debriefing, the participants analyze the critical elements of IMSA's PBL model through dialogue with the facilitators and fellow participants. They engage in the initial stages of designing a PBL scenario for their classrooms and collaboratively develop implementation strategies for their classrooms.

Investigaciones Coaching Institute, running parallel with the Sleuths Coaching Institute, is designed for bilingual-Spanish teachers who learn PBL coaching strategies in the context of its use with bilingual-Spanish middle school students. More...

 

Advanced PBL Design

The goal of the Advanced PBL Design Institute is to enable teachers to explore the educational theories and philosophies that underlie PBL. This four-day learning experience will provide additional opportunities for the participants to design curricular units for their classrooms and to explore effective assessment strategies. In this second level of design, the teachers incorporate knowledge they gained from their first PBL experience with students. More...

Learning Colloquium @ IMSA

Dr. Norman G. Lederman and Dr. Judith S. Lederman,
Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois

Drs. Norman and Judith Lederman will facilitate this workshop that will focus on current research on learning and its applications to classroom practice. More...

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