Project Based Learning Workshop


A project based learning activity approach to organizing afterschool curriculum is designed for those who want to provide opportunities for children and youth to apply knowledge and skills learned in school to the in-depth, long term designing and implementation of project ideas.

The workshop covers the strategies for conducting child/youth run projects: how to begin; what to expect; methods used to coach the learners through a project; how to assess child/youth's efforts; determining the ways involvement in projects supports and meets children and youth developmental needs; determining the learning standard links to literacy development, science, math, problem solving, arts, and social studies within the project; and mapping the project components, directions, phases, and outcomes.

In order to learn NIOST's project based learning approach, workshop participants will map and develop potential project based learning experiences; watch video tapes of children involved in a project; analyze the processes and phases of typical projects; brainstorm the potential directions of one project tailored to the needs of your after school program, and generate potential project titles relevant to your site.

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All of our trainings, except for our annual Summer Seminar, are conducted in a location of your choice. Clients arrange a local training event with NIOST that typically draws 20-40 participants. Two NIOST Training Associates plan and deliver the training, while a local sponsor, such as a Resource and Referral Agency, State Government Agency, City Agency, or State or Local Provider Association, coordinates the publicity and logistics. This model allows for maximum local participation. If a client has a small number of potential participants, it may make fiscal sense to send the group to the annual Summer Seminars series in Boston.

Opportunities for individual participants to attend NIOST trainings include our annual Summer Seminar series held in July in Boston. NIOST has been hosting its annual Seminars since 1999. The goal of our Summer Seminars is to provide training for after-school professionals from all over the country which can be attended as individuals. In addition, this series of events allows participants to connect with other professionals outside of their community, and thus create a potential national network among the field.