Public Product

Designing and learning for an authentic purpose and audience supports all areas of the PoG.

A sampling of criteria from each skill: “demonstrates responsibility for local and global communities; communicates for a range of purposes and with a variety of audiences; develops intrinsic initiative and responsibility for learning; applies and uses content knowledge in real world situations; and understands the complexity associated with a given problem and can design appropriate solutions.”

Exhibit It:

Considerations and resources for exhibiting student work. Totally worth your time!

• EL Education: Documenting Projects Toolkit: six short, wonderful videos that break down the documentation process. Practical ways to encourage community in the classroom and document learning at the same time.
• Sample Timeline for Exhibition of Learning: With links to exemplars.
• Sample Student Roles for Exhibition Night — Comprehensive list to adapt.

Curate It:

Where will student work live after the unit?

• The Power of Curating Student Work An inspiring slide presentation that reminds us of the power of curating student work — includes examples of how to practically do so.
• Exhibiting Student Writing A discussion on the power of publishing student work and practical ways to do so.

Assess It:

“Enhancers” to our formative and summative practices

• HTH: Assessment — ideas and tools for assessing final products.
• PBL Works: Assessment: links to sites, rubrics, studies, and exemplars.
• We as a faculty have done much work moving towards proficiency and using formative and summative grading practices. This work is in no way being supplanted by the “Toolkit.”