Project Based Learning - by Ross Cooper & Erin Murphy (Paperback)

About the Book

Book Synopsis

Countless educators from across the globe would love to leverage project based learning to create learner-centered opportunities for their students, but, believe it or not, PBL has yet to go mainstream.

If project based learning can benefit so many students, why isn't this approach the norm in teaching? Because educators have questions.

Since the release of their first book, Hacking Project Based Learning, Ross Cooper and Erin Murphy, prominent PBL experts, have connected with thousands of PBL practitioners.

Project Based Learning is Cooper's and Murphy's response to the most common, and most complex, questions educators ask about PBL and inquiry, including:

• How do I structure a PBL experience?
• What do I do while the kids are working?
• How do I get grades?
• How do I include direct instruction?
• What happens when kids don't work well together?
• How do I manage the chaos?

Project Based Learning answers these questions, and more, to show you how to do PBL and inquiry, and all school projects the right way, in any subject or grade.

Order yours today, and launch PBL in your class tomorrow.

Review Quotes

None of us enjoy being taught at, and yet that is what too many students

endure in their classroom. Project Based Learning: Real Questions.

Real Answers. How to Unpack PBL and Inquiry is an inspiring book

focusing on a process where the teacher and students learn together,

and the authors provide a step-by-step process on how to do that.

- Peter DeWitt, EdD, Author, Consultant, Finding

Common Ground Blog for Education Week

This book is a must-read for educators who aspire to create more personalized

and inquiry-based experiences for all students. Too often the message

is that you have to start from scratch. Instead, Cooper and Murphy

share insights and practical strategies to address the most pressing questions

about project based learning and will empower you to build from

what you are already doing to create amazing learning opportunities for

your students.

- Katie Martin, PhD, Chief Impact Officer at Altitude

Learning, Author of Learner-Centered Innovation

The authors provide educators with the keys to deliver the type of learning

all students deserve: engaging, hands-on, and on the path to caring about

and solving problems that matter. As someone who facilitates project based

learning with students, I'll be referring to this book, over and over again.

- Shelly Sanchez, Digital Innovator, STEM Teacher,

Author of Hacking Digital Learning Strategies

Students around the world eagerly embrace learning experiences that

are DIFFERENT, that are more than traditional factual recall and procedural

regurgitation. In this phenomenal PBL resource, Cooper and

Murphy unpack the concrete logistics of what it takes to facilitate deeper

learning, greater student agency, and more real-world authentic work in

your school. This book is full of useful templates and protocols, answers to

challenging questions, and ideas that will energize student learning. Use

the practical strategies in this book to embrace the "productive struggle"

and make learning different (Please? Asking for a few million students . . .).

- Scott McLeod, PhD, Associate Professor, University of

Colorado Denver, Founding Director of CASTLE