Empowering Young Minds: Mastering the Art of Project Based Learning

‘Unleash Creativity and Critical Thinking Among Students’

Led by Joyce Jose

Project Based Learning (PBL) has been a valuable tool used by teachers, world over, irrespective of the subject or the age they teach. It has time and again proven to be a methodology that has helped promote among students, critical thinking, problem-solving, collaboration, effective communication and a host of other valuable skills needed in the 21st century. If designed effectively, a teacher can use PBL to not only enhance their educational experience but also to prepare them for success in both academic and real-world challenges. This workshop will help you take a stock of your understanding of the components of an effective PBL design and plan, how to trouble shoot common bottle necks in the design and how to ensure you keep it authentic, sustain the interest of your students and work within the time line that you have. Nothing builds engagement like a project that grows out of a student’s own passion, interest or question. Are we as teachers ensuring that our PBL design caters to this? Are we asking the right questions to help unleash creativity among students? Are we promoting critical thinking among our students instead of encourage rote memorisation?

Let’s find out!

Who is the workshop for?
Practicing teachers, teaching any subject, to any age group of students.

You must register for this workshop if:

  • You are passionate about getting your students to think beyond the textbook.
  • Understand and promote research based learning and are ready to put in that extra work and effort to refine your PBL design.
  • Want to break out of the conventional talk-and-chalk method of teaching and learning.
  • You are comfortable to take a back seat and let the learner take the lead in the learning process.

What to expect?
This will be an interactive workshop where participants will have an opportunity to learn, question, interact with other participants, design a PBL plan for any one of the subject/classes they teach, present their plan and be open to self and peer review of their plan.

Having been born to army officer parents, Joyce Jose got into the process of ‘learning by exploring’ new places from a very young age. The love for Geography and Environmental Sciences was therefore a lifestyle and not just mere subjects she learnt in school. The love for the subject evidently aided her to become a rank holder in B.Sc. (Geography) and M.Sc. (Applied Geography) from Bharathiyar and Bharathidasan University respectively. She is therefore an ardent advocate of experiential learning and believes it provides an individual with valuable skills such as problem solving, critical thinking and collaboration. Project based learning, therefore, finds its way into her teaching methodology quite seamlessly. For the past 17 years, having taught subjects like Geography, Environmental Management and Global Perspectives to high-school and pre-university students, she has been actively engaging students in projects that aim to help them become thoughtful, self-aware, environmentally responsible and engaged citizens.