Latest Episodes
Developing Self-Regulation Skills through PBL Pt4: Cognitive Skills
Educators are daily challenged with wondering why students behave as they do. Join Ginger with her guest Brad Chapin as he highlights the 3rd of the Self-Regulation skill sets: Cognitive Skills. The conversation starts by reviewing the first two of the...
Leveraging UDL for Effective PBL (Practicing PBL # 17)
Today’s podcast features 5th grade classroom teacher, extraordinaire, Lisa Parisi who walks us through how Universal Design for Learning (http://www.cast.org/our-work/about-udl.html) works in tandem with Project/Problem Based Learning.
Developing Self-Regulation Skills Through PBL – Pt 3: Emotional Skills (PracticingPBL #16)
Brad joins Ginger in-house again for Part Three of Developing Self-Regulation Skills. Brads work teaches PBL teachers how to help children and adults develop better self-regulatory skills for better lives on down the road. In PBL,
Developing Self-Regulation Skills Through PBL-Pt 2: Physical skills continued (PracticingPBL #15)
Brad joins Ginger in-house again for Part Two of Developing Self-Regulation Skills. Brads work teaches PBL teachers how to help children and adults develop better self-regulatory skills for better lives on down the road. In PBL,
Creating Zealots of Learning: Beyond Engagement & Motivation (PracticingPBL #14)
Ginger and Kevin are in-studio together, chatting about some of the more engaging projects they’ve done separately and together with students. Kevin shares his art camp history and the sort of high-risk program he built which turned everyday kids in to...
Developing Self-Regulation Skills Through PBL Pt 1: Physical skills (PracticingPBL #13)
Brad joins Ginger in-house today to help us make connections with his work, helping children and adults develop better self-regulatory skills for better lives on down the road. In PBL, students are intentionally put into situations and challenges that ...
Quick Question With Cindy Sheets – Exercise Their Creative Thinking (PracticingPBL #13)
What are some of the short-term problems you have students do to exercise their creative thinking and problem solving “muscles”? In this quick response, Cindy shares a few smaller problem-based learning activities and several iterations for each.
Wise Words from a PBL Veteran at the Elementary Level (PracticingPBL #12)
Cindy Sheets shares a snapshot of the years of experience she has teaching students through project and problem based learning. She shares one of her favorite project ideas for 4th graders is a paleontology project where students get to excavate and “d...
Quick Question with Eric Nentrup (PracticingPBL #11)
How do we redirect teachers and/or students when they have the temptation to fall away from the rigors and tasty challenges of PBL back into “playing school.” Eric takes us on a journey of both teachers and students and why they might find themselves...
Getting The Public Involved In PBL (PracticingPBL #10)
Join this fast-paced episode with Ginger Lewman and Eric Nentrup as they talk about getting the public involved in our projects. How do we approach them (spoiler alert: we can play the “teacher card"). And as expected with these two,