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In the ISTE session we used the chat feature to capture your thinking about some of the essentials of PBL.

Below are your answers to our prompts in all their unaltered goodness:

 

We asked:  What are the characteristics or behaviors of pbl teachers? We asked: What are some projects you admire, and what makes them good?

We asked:  What are the characteristics or behaviors of pbl teachers?

 

You said:

Jim Lerman: open

Wendy Berry: engage students

Barbara Rix: exciting, innovative, creative

Jim Lerman: independent

Jim Lerman: well-organized

Kemptown Kindergarten: Willing to not be the sage on the stage, but guide on the side letting the kids take over

Mary Waker: innovative

kimberley ketterer 2: Not afraid to give up control in the classroom

Susan Wolff: Teachers who are willing to take chances

Kris Baldwin: brave, risk-takers

Wendy: good understanding of how students learn

Kemptown Kindergarten: flexible

Lidia Sevilla: Teachers tend to be more opened mindede

Betty Latimer: Think out of the box

Mary Waker: negotiate curriculum

Jim Lerman: risk-takers

Kimberly Irizarry: willing to try new things

Dan Oster: They prefer to teach through a multi-disciplinary approach

Ethan Smith 2: They value student learning around processes as much or more than they value students' learning content.

kimberley ketterer 2: REpsectful of student individuality

Angela Clark: Collaboartive, Innovative, March to the beat of a different drum

Lydotta: energetic

Delyn: maybe more open minded

Brenda Beck: Risk takers, willing to let things go

Kris Baldwin: focus on student understanding

Ron Witort 2: These teachers are willing to reverse the common authority structure in the classroom to focus on students more.

Wendy Berry: Have active classrooms with student dialogue

kimberley ketterer 2: High level of student engagement

Delyn: not afraid of new adventures

Jim Lerman: sensititve to needs of kids

Susan Wolff: hands on  learning

Kris Baldwin: willing to fight for the technology

Lydotta: risk takers

Sondra: Not afraid to take risks.

sharon ayala: Collabarative efforts

Wendy: high-energy

Kimberly Irizarry: not afraid of technology

Mary Waker: subject integration

Lisa: know kids have to be engaged to learn

Anne Shure: open to possibility

Delyn: more facilitators than lecturers

Mary Waker: collaboration

Dan Oster: Work to combine learning into a cohesive whole

Jim Lerman: MODEST

Donna Levy: rigorous and relevant

Barbara Rix: I like that they are willing to fight for technology

 

We asked: What are some projects you admire, and what makes them good?

 

You said:

Ethan Smith 2: Authentic audience

Donna Levy: engaged students

kimberley ketterer 2: ommunity walk --exploring geography

Pedro: relevant to the students

Susan Wolff: Rsearch that helps us dig deeper

Kimberly Irizarry: real world experience

Lisa: good projects are scaffolded so students aren't lost

Kris Baldwin: engages students

Pedro: take kids out of their comfort zones

kimberley ketterer 2: rubrics, structure, and path to follow

Tony: Intrinsically motivating

Barbara Rix: A teacher took her students through Africa by creating a virtual tour of her unit

Susan Wolff: real life primary and secondary sources

Wendy Berry: international understanding

Kimberly Irizarry: student centered

Ron Witort 2: A local teacher here in Central Valley of CA led his students on a pioneer trip after studying local grave stone and rubbings...

Lisa: making content interesting

Emily Vickery: I merge social justice with technology; I've found my students learn to be more empathetic--learn more about others and themselves

kimberley ketterer 2: adequate technology ....classroom sets

Linda 2: Monitoring the Peregrine Falcons nest in Ohio

Rebecca: creates incentive to want more

Dan Oster: Modern Slavery - student becomes an authority

HYE JUNG: self evaluation

Susan Wolff: application on many levels

Kris Baldwin: step by step process

Trinity: Monster exchange cross school partnership

Pedro: students should have an audience to present to, and get good feedback

Kris Baldwin: real purpose/audience

kimberley ketterer 2: Appropriate to student learning styles nad age

Pedro: collaborative projects

Lisa: relates content to the real world now

Sondra: Good projects make students want to be engaged-not just required participation.

Wendy Berry: higher order thinking skills

Trinity: Flat stanley

Emily Vickery: From global awareness to global understanding

sharon ayala: Pulling content together for all students to understand

Barbara Rix: Another teacher created Books on tape and video taped all the stories his students created and put them on a web page

kimberley ketterer 2: reading buddies

Pedro: students see themselves as producers of knowledge

Pedro: Don't overlook the TIME needed