Schools including Concordia Lutheran College, St Peters Lutheran College, Faith Lutheran College Redlands and Plainland and others are implementing some Gold Standard PBL Design Workshops for teachers. There has also been an increase in middle years engagement as the research continues to support the contemporary experiential inquiry based pedagogy.
Concordia Lutheran College began their formal launch of their PBL initiative with two secondary departments and the P-12 college leadership team recently. Further episodes are rolling across the 130 staff P-12, 3 campuses. Everyone brought rich collaboration, creativity, courage and commitment to the day to enable planning and discussions. This supported the start of some beautiful transdisciplinary PBL enhanced by design thinking as a key part of their Contemporary Learning journey.
In turn, this will undoubtedly continue to provide rich, meaningful and authentic learning for all.
All 130 staff were provided by Anton Prinsloo (Head of College) with their own copies of PBL books for Christmas holiday reading as well as preparation time before Thursday. Thus this first of many events and episodes was supercharged with a vigor of making a real difference to learning. Congratulations to all!!
“It was so affirming to see the Secondary Depts being adventurous, courageous and collaborative as Concordia embarks on it Project Based Learning journey – what a beautiful thing! Thank you Derek Bartels and Kim Powell for your flexibility in providing a rich and scaffolded professional learning experience.” Anton Prinsloo
“Authenticity, student agency and empathetic deep dives with the design thinking process has helped me create a gold standard PBL Unit for my learners thankyou” Teacher
“Bring on rich transdisciplinary PBL across all three campuses P-12. The Bus has truly departed with a diverse collaborative group of passionate educators!”
