Needed: Resources for Training Teachers for Project-Based and Inquiry-Based Learning

Help needed! Please share your wisdom on Project-Based and Inquiry-Based Learning!

I am seeking to pool all resources (Web sites, videos, articles, books, Podcasts, etc.) related to Inquiry-Based and Project-Based learning into one place. This collection will be an ongoing summer project that will ultimately be open to the public, and searchable by keywords and "tags" for teachers and administrators around the world.
Particularly, I am interested in what resources you or your school use to introduce and train teachers to teach these particular pedagogies. If you had a new teacher coming in, who knew nothing of project-based or inquiry-based learning, what resources would you give them? Thanks a million! Any and all help will be greatly appreciated!

Eric Crabtree
Third Grade Teacher
Island Pacific Academy
Kapolei, HI

Tags: education, ibl, inquiry-based, library, pbl, pedagogy, professionaldevelopment, project-based, resources, teachertraining, More…teaching, technology

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Permalink Reply by IndyEduktr on June 11, 2009 at 12:28pm

Try the Buck Institute (CA) and anything from the New Tech High School Initiatives (Napa Valley, CA)..

Cheers,

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Permalink Reply by Shelly Moses on June 22, 2009 at 4:12pm

Hi Eric,

I am glad to see this forum for project based learning. I am also looking to find resources because I will be presenting a seminar for the Institute for Educational Development in the fall on project based learning for grades 2-8. If anyone out there has examples of good projects that they do with their classes I'd love to hear about them. If you are willing to share I would greatly appreciate it. If anyone wants to see info on some of my favorites you can e-mail me at smoses@sdja.com.

www.edutopia.org is a great site with a great deal of info, videos, etc. If you join the organization ($35 I believe) you get access to even more, plus a subscription to their magazine, which is great.

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Permalink Reply by Mariana Cortes on June 22, 2009 at 10:40pm

Try typing in Itunes PBL or even edutopia, you will find some podcasts on
how High Tech High is modeling/using PBL.
Also look at these examples Explorer (the Elementary HTH) shows: http://www.explorerelementary.org/pages/Academics/Curriculum_and_Pr...:

Need something else??? Try:http://www.bie.org/index.php/site/PBL/overview_pbl/
BIE has published a Project Based Learning Handbook that offers a comprehensive overview of PBL and a detailed planning model for teachers. The introduction to the handbook contains information on the history and philosophy of PBL partnered with others to create PBL-Online.org , a free online professional development resource.

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Permalink Reply by monika hardy on June 23, 2009 at 10:23am

here's my latest collection.

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Permalink Reply by Doug Walker on June 24, 2009 at 5:51am

Go to my delicious page http://www.delicious.com/dwalker500 and search for my tag PBL and Projects. You should find some good resources there.

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Permalink Reply by Donna Bills on June 24, 2009 at 7:05am

Here are a couple of sites I found recently and marked in Diigo. I am so encouraged to see all the interest here in this subject. Can't wait to see your compilation of resources.