Welcome to Sabancı University School of Languages Project Based Learning
Our History
In May 2015 Sabancı University, School of Languages (SL) held its first Project Based Learning conference. Teams of SL learners worked for twelve weeks to research, prepare and present their findings as Poster Presentations at the conference. Since then we have held another highly successful conference and are looking forward to the poster presentations from this semester's teams at the end of December 2016.
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Who is this Website For?
Learners and Teachers at Sabancı University, School of Languages
This website is the home of our project and contains all the information SL learners and teachers need to undertake this semester's challenge.
Teachers who are interested in Project Based Learning
We are extremely proud of the effort and high quality work of SL learners during the project and the wonderfully memorable conference days. We would like to share our experiences and knowledge of developing PBL to help English language teaching and learning with any teacher who is interested.
If you are such a teacher, welcome to our site. Please feel free to look around the pages related to our current project and visit the Teacher Resources page for more insights. We would love to hear from you if you would like more information or just to say hello. You can find contact details here.
Please feel free to use or adapt our materials. PBL is not a new approach but is fairly rare when applied to English language teaching and learning. We have naturally taken ideas and influences from others and referenced this work. If you choose to use our materials we would ask that you respect this original referencing.
If you are such a teacher, welcome to our site. Please feel free to look around the pages related to our current project and visit the Teacher Resources page for more insights. We would love to hear from you if you would like more information or just to say hello. You can find contact details here.
Please feel free to use or adapt our materials. PBL is not a new approach but is fairly rare when applied to English language teaching and learning. We have naturally taken ideas and influences from others and referenced this work. If you choose to use our materials we would ask that you respect this original referencing.
Website Organisation
Here is an overview of our website pages and their contents.
What is Project Based Learning?
Developing as lifelong learners through PBL - The importance of hard and soft skills (link) Developing digital literacy through PBL How is the project assessed? - Detailed assessment information and rubrics (link) |
Our project's driving question |
Phase details and links to detailed calendar, key events and ideas for each phase (links)
Phase One - Stages and timings - Prezi Introduction to Phase One - Teamwork, forming a team & the importance of teamwork in PBL - About team contracts - Using weekly action plans - The SL conference theme - Selecting a research topic - Choosing an interesting and relevant research question for your team - Searching for and identifying suitable research sources - Source reliability and referencing sources Phase Two - Stages and timings - Prezi Introduction to Phase One - Identifying and taking note of relevant information - Summarising and synthesising research sources - Group Discussion: synthesising your information - Recording your discussion Phase Three - Stages and timings Planning and delivering presentations to another class - drafting and note-writing - practicing and receiving peer feedback - rehearsing and delivering presentations Presenting at the School of Languages conference - Poster specifications - Printing the poster - During the conference Phase Four - Reflection on knowledge skills and attitudes learned and developed... ...during the course ...applying them in the future - Advice for future participants - Suggestions to improve the project |
Documents for all phases
- weekly action plan Phase One documents - Contract & research question checklist - Team contract - Individual research areas - Source appropriacy checklist Phase Two documents - Research notes and summaries - Team synthesis and analysis of information Phase Three documents - Planning the poster - Rehearsal and feedback Phase Three tools & tips - links for poster planning & design - links for poster creation tools and 'how to' Phase Four documents - Reflection on skills knowledge and attitudes development - Advice for future participants Using technology in the project - Online digital platforms - Platforms created by PBL teams - Communication, collaboration and partnership - virtual meetings |
Teachers Resources
- Links and resources - The Sabancı University School of Languages SL PBL Professional Development Seminar |