Short Feedback Loops in Project-Based Learning

Student-centered project-based learning (PBL) is a powerful instructional method many educators appreciate, but often struggle with the implementation. As a former practitioner and current teacher trainer, I often see long or non existent feedback loops quickly kill the momentum of PBL in a school.

When this happens, students go back to drones doing the minimum required amount of work.Teachers throw up there hands and question the benefit of the model, while parents get ancy due to the the lack of tangible things to measure progress.

Usually classroom projects are what I say enable amateur habits, since the teacher assigns it, the studentswork on it without feedback... hand it in... present... get a grade and that’s it. Learning is in the feedback and it happens when there is ample time to reapply.