PROJECT-BASED LEARNING
At Placer Academy Charter, we use project-based learning and Core Knowledge® together to create rich and inviting learning experiences. Project-based learning is a hands on instructional method. We develop projects and questions to challenge our students to use a wide variety of skill sets including problem solving, decision making, and observation. A project is developed that allows a student to explore a subject using many different but related tasks to give them a well rounded understanding of the subject at hand. Students are given the freedom to create their own investigation using a set of guiding questions. By allowing the students to take ownership to explore and answer the questions, we have found they retain the lesson plan better than just traditional methods.
Students also find this more fun and engaging, which helps foster them to become lifelong learners. This also gives them real world skill sets where the answer usually has to be solved in a similar manner. This leads to better preparation for higher education but also prepares them for the job market of the future. Ultimately we are teaching students to come up with answers on their own, which is rewarding and incredibly useful all throughout life.
Students also find this more fun and engaging, which helps foster them to become lifelong learners. This also gives them real world skill sets where the answer usually has to be solved in a similar manner. This leads to better preparation for higher education but also prepares them for the job market of the future. Ultimately we are teaching students to come up with answers on their own, which is rewarding and incredibly useful all throughout life.
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“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the true goal of education.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.