STEM teachers can try this five-day project-based learning cycle to give students a meaningful experience on a short timeline ...

Here’s a quick exercise for those in education: What do the letters CBL stand for? For many, competency-based learning might have been the first thing to pop in their heads. But others might have ...

Micah Castelo is a web editor for EdTech: Focus on K-12. Her experience includes education and community news coverage for the Syracuse Post-Standard and international news reporting for the Pulitzer ...

Big multistep projects teach the practical skills of project management. Challenging projects build the habits of persistence (sometimes called grit) and self direction. If they include some degree of ...

Experience and research point to the need for teachers to strike a balance between direct instruction of facts and developing students' scientific curiosity as they pursue team projects.

David Ross is a global education consultant and former CEO of the Partnership for 21st Century Learning (P21). After holding national and international education leadership roles for 15 years, in ...

Project-based learning advocates are concerned that as the practice becomes more popular many people don't know what high quality learning experiences look like. They're trying to fix that. Elizabeth ...

In this course, educators will learn how global issues can become the basis for project-based learning, bringing relevance and engagement to core content. Project-based learning enables students to ...

A large, international study shows that problem-based learning is more effective than standard instruction in math and science, and a national survey confirms that students, parents and teachers all ...

Students discover the value of learning by doing with a project-based education. Find out about the lifelong benefits of ...