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Enhancing Student Engagement through Project-Based Learning in Michigan High Schools

This guide explores the implementation of project-based learning (PBL) at Williamston High School. It introduces PBL as an educational method that gives students the flexibility to choose their topics and create meaningful presentations or reports that span various disciplines. Teachers transition into facilitators to foster coaching and collaborative thinking, promoting problem-solving and career skills in students. The guide outlines the golf course project, which stimulates creativity through teamwork and detailed planning, showcasing PBL's effectiveness in increasing student motivation and engagement.

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Enhancing Student Engagement through Project-Based Learning in Michigan High Schools

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    1. SUPPORTING ALL STUDENTS USING PROJECT/PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING Dan Schab Williamston High School Williamston, MI schabd@wmston.k12.mi.us

    2. What is Project-based Learning? Allowing students a degree of choice on topic, product, or presentation. Resulting in an end product such as a presentation or report. Involving multiple disciplines. Varying in duration from one period to a whole semester.

    3. New Role for the Teacher Featuring the teacher in the role of facilitator rather than leader. More coaching and modeling, less telling. More learning with students, less being the expert. More cross disciplinary thinking, less specialization. More performance-based assessment, less paper-and-pencil assessment.

    4. WHY INTEGRATE PROJECTS INTO THE CURRICULUM? APPLICATION OF COURSE CONTENT DEVELOP PROBLEM-SOLVING SKILLS DEVELOP CAREER AND EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS INCREASE STUDENT MOTIVATION

    5. THE GOLF COURSE PROJECT STEP 1: Students Placed Into Design Teams

    6. STEP 2 Plans are developed Student design teams brainstorm ideas for their golf course. Each student must design four golf holes. Detailed, two-dimensional drawings of each hole are completed.

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