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Understanding Project-Based Learning (PBL)
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Students work on a project over an extended period of time – from a week up to an entire nine weeks – that engages them in solving a real-world problem or answering a complex question. They demonstrate their knowledge and skills by developing a public product or presentation for a real audience.
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As a result, students develop deep content knowledge as well as critical thinking, creativity, and communication skills in the context of doing an authentic, meaningful project. Project Based Learning unleashes a contagious, creative energy among students and teachers.
Understanding Problem-Based Learning (PrBL)
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Problem-based learning (PBL) presents students with a problem to empower learning to become active in the sense that students discover and work with content that you determine to be necessary to solve the problem. In PrBL, the teacher acts as facilitator and mentor, rather than a source of "solutions." Problem based learning will provide students with opportunities to examine and try out what they know, discover what they need to learn, develop their people skills for achieving higher performance in teams, improve their communications skills, and state and defend positions with evidence and sound argument ​