Foundations of Early Childhood PBL
Part 1
I am so excited to embed and model PBL as a teaching strategy in my undergraduate ECE methods course. I know this will be both meaningful and valuable as these students learn about PBL methods themselves and then apply their new learning in their practicum classrooms, who are also utilizing PBL! So many opportunities for valuable models and connections. Sara was absolutely fantastic and went above and beyond to facilitate meaningful engagement and challenge new ways we could enhance existing practices within our classrooms.
— Allison Wilson, Associate Professor of Early Childhood Education
Workshop Description
This 6.5 hour workshop provides educators with a solid foundation in constructivist principles and learner-centered practices essential for understanding and implementing PBL in early childhood education. This workshop, part one of a two-part series, lays the groundwork for deeper exploration and practice in the second session. Attendees will learn to leverage classroom observations, student interests, and questions to inform project planning, ensuring seamless integration into educational frameworks. By the end, educators will have begun to thoughtfully plan one project and gained strategies for sustaining inquiry, setting the stage for continued learning and detailed planning in the second part of the series.
Participant Outcomes
Utilize learner-centered practices when planning for PBL
Learn how to leverage classroom observations, students’ interests and students’ questions when entering into the project planning process
Explore ways to incorporate existing curricula and schedules into PBL
Develop strategies for sustaining inquiry over the course of a project by redefining the concept of “research”
Thoughtfully plan one project and develop an understanding for how to replicate the planning process in the future
Learn to integrate key knowledge, skills and dispositions into any early childhood PBL unit using a three-layered approach.
Visualize how a project might unfold with young learners and identify how to capture those ideas onto our unique ECPBL Project Planning Outline
What You Can Expect…
Before…
Pre-Workshop meeting with your facilitator to learn more about your needs, the participants, workshop timing and whether you want to hold your workshop virtually or in-person
Exclusive Routledge discount code for our EC PBL book, Implementing Project Based Learning in Early Childhood
Join our EC PBL Facebook Group
During…
Expert facilitation from one of the co-authors of our book
Content specific to young learners
Strategies, tools and resources.
Access to our EC PBL Project Planning Outline
After…
Certificate of Completion
On-going access to the EC PBL team
On-going support from the members of our Facebook Group
Access to our comprehensive ECPBL resource document