In this contemporary world, where tackling challenges and overcoming problems carries so much importance, accumulation of Project-Based Learning (PBL) in the curriculum certainly adds a novel and distinguished angle to the education. Fulfilling the students with knowledge that is profound and enduring, PBL not only inspires the students to learn with a pragmatic approach but also ensures a personal connection to their academic experience. The traditional method of learning can no longer prepare the students to sustain in the highly competitive 21st century world. Rather they need to be introduced with contemporary learning methodologies, which can enrich their both fundamental skills and 21st century skills. Encouraging the students to be prolifically advance in contemporary skills such as collaboration, communication, problem solving, research, time management, analysing information, and more, Project-Based Learning can help students to become future leaders.
Some of the important aspects of implementing project-based learning in education are as follows:
1. Aligning Technologies with Real life Context
Introducing real-life background and technology to the curriculum project-based learning encourages students to become independent professionals, critical thinkers, and permanent learners throughout life. Through PBL mechanism, teachers can communicate with students to exchange ideas with peers and enhance subject-area expertise. All the while breaking down invisible barriers such as inaccessibility to work together in the classroom, PBL is much more than just a way of learning but a way of working together. Through this unique way of approach, students learn to take accountability for their own learning.
2. Self-assessment
Allowing the teachers to have multiple assessment opportunities, PBL allows a child to establish his or her competences while working independently. Encouraging the child's capability to apply chosen skills such as doing research PBL activities play a key role in developing the child's efficiency to work with his or her peers through teamwork and group skills.
3. Encouraging Different Learning Styles
Children tend to acquire knowledge through various learning styles and through varying backgrounds as well as experiences. It is also acknowledged that children have a wider range of capabilities which often get restricted in regular classrooms with the old-style text-based learning mechanisms. Encouraging these differences, PBL inspires the students to implement new ideas in the process of research, problem solving and then deriving the solutions. When children are absorbed in what they are doing, they are able to use their areas of strength and succeed prolifically.
4. Promoting Creativity and Technology
Students often indulge themselves in using a gamut of technoogy tools for research and learning. Gaining valuable skills in today’s workplace and life, students learn to take inventiveness, work sensibly, solve problems, work together in teams, and communicate ideas. Promoting creativity, a great project can be transformative for students encouraging innovative ideas and encourage them to see through real-world. Leading through profound understanding through higher retention of content and knowledge, students are able to apply their skills in real world through PBL.
5. Perseverance and Empowerment
While working on a project, students take their own approach to learn and manage obstacles more efficiently. They learn from their failure and make modifications until they’re content with their own achievements. Through their failures the students learn how to manage their projects and assignments more efficiently. Through PBL, students get to discover their interests, ask questions and develop a new interest for learning.
