[vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1459859592495{padding-top: 80px !important;padding-bottom: 60px !important;}”][vc_column offset=”vc_col-lg-7 vc_col-md-7 vc_col-xs-12″][stm_slider slider_width=”600px”][stm_slider_item img_id=”3682″ img_size=”570×480″][stm_slider_item img_id=”3682″ img_size=”570×480″][/stm_slider][stm_spacing lg_spacing=”30px” md_spacing=”30px” sm_spacing=”45px” xs_spacing=”45px”][/vc_column][vc_column offset=”vc_col-lg-5 vc_col-md-5 vc_col-xs-12″][stm_title title_tag=”h2″ sep_color=”green” sep_enable=”true” title=”THE PBL CURRICULUM:” sep_margin_b=”51px” title_line_height=”48px” title_margin_t=”-13px”]Register early — Camps fill quickly! With enough demand, we will open secondary sections of Popular Camps.[/stm_title][vc_column_text]Project Based Learning (PBL) is a teaching method in which students learn by actively engaging in real-world and personally meaningful projects.[/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1661445809575{margin-bottom: 30px !important;}”]All activities and lesson plans are tailored to scientific brain-based principles making learning a fun, creative, exploratory process, and registering all concepts in the child’s long term memory. The integrated and interdisciplinary learning system, along with engaging and hands-on activities, ensures that all our children are successful learners[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row” css=”.vc_custom_1455335752397{padding-top: 45px !important;padding-bottom: 39px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;}”][vc_column offset=”vc_col-lg-7 vc_col-md-6 vc_col-xs-12″][vc_column_text]
Strong emphasis on the domains of development that are designed to match the way children develop and learn providing them with opportunities to learn and practice newly acquired skills
Combination of theories by child psychologists and educators, that help build confidence and thoughtful learners – Maslow, Erik Erikson, Jean Piaget, Vygotsky, Maria Montessori, Neil Fleming, Friedrich Froebel and Reggio Emilia
Directed to take children from a lower order of thinking involving remembering and application to a higher order of thinking involving analysis, evaluation and synthesis/creation.
[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column offset=”vc_col-lg-5 vc_col-md-6 vc_col-xs-12″][stm_text_box title_tag=”h2″ sep_color=”blue” title_color=”custom” text_color=”custom” stm_bg_color=”green” sep_enable=”true” bg_color=”green” title=”In Project Based Learning, teachers make learning come alive for students.” text_color_custom=”#ffffff” padding_top=”39px” padding_right=”50px” padding_bottom=”44px” padding_left=”50px” title_color_custom=”#0a0a0a”]Students work on a project over an extended period of time – from a week up to a semester – that engages them in solving a real-world problem or answering a complex question. They demonstrate their knowledge and skills by creating a public product or presentation for a real audience. As a result, students develop deep content knowledge as well as critical thinking, collaboration, creativity, and communication skills. Project Based Learning unleashes a contagious, creative energy among students and teachers.[/stm_text_box][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1661446838373{background-color: #ffffff !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1661446571302{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]
At the heart of meaningful and effective PBL, is the process by which students learn significant content; the required content set out in the curriculum.
[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”3821″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row” css=”.vc_custom_1455192302689{padding-top: 45px !important;padding-bottom: 100px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/2″ offset=”vc_col-lg-6 vc_col-md-6 vc_col-xs-12″][stm_image_box img_id=”3270″ title_link=”url:%23||” css=”.vc_custom_1661454137700{margin-bottom: 40px !important;}”]Critical thinking, problem solving, collaboration and communication are the 21st century skills required for PBL. Students need to do much more than simply remember information; they need to use higher-order thinking skills and learn to work as a team. They must listen to others and make their own ideas clear when speaking, be able to read a variety of material, write or otherwise express themselves in various modes and make effective presentations.[/stm_image_box][stm_image_box img_id=”3270″ title_link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Fsmartyschool.stylemixthemes.com%2Fcourse-schedule%2F||” css=”.vc_custom_1661454336463{margin-bottom: 40px !important;}”]An essential component of the process of learning and creating something new is inquiry. Students ask questions, search for answers and arrive at conclusions, leading them to construct something new.[/stm_image_box][stm_image_box img_id=”3270″ title_link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Fsmartyschool.stylemixthemes.com%2Fclasses%2F||” css=”.vc_custom_1661454399281{margin-bottom: 40px !important;}”]In Project Based Learning students work on a comprehensive project that engages them in addressing real world problems or answering a complex question. Students exhibit their knowledge and skills by developing a product or presentation. This Product is made public to people beyond the classroom at the project culmination event. As a result, the students develop deep content knowledge and adhere to 21st century success skills. PBL helps a school in building a culture of creativity and liveliness among students and teachers.[/stm_image_box][stm_image_box img_id=”3270″ title_link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Fsmartyschool.stylemixthemes.com%2Facademic-calendar%2F||” css=”.vc_custom_1661454455706{margin-bottom: 40px !important;}”]PBL accommodates student voice and choice. Students learn to work independently and take responsibility when they are asked to make choices. The opportunity to make choices and to express their learning in their own voice also helps to increase students’ interest and engagement.[/stm_image_box][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][stm_image_box img_id=”3270″ title_link=”url:%23||” css=”.vc_custom_1661454247234{margin-bottom: 40px !important;}”]PBL is organised around an open-ended driving question. This focuses students’ work and deepens their learning by framing important issues, debates, challenges or problems. PBL reverses the order in which information and concepts are traditionally presented. It begins with the vision of an end product or presentation. This creates a need to know context and a reason to learn and understand the information and concepts.[/stm_image_box][stm_image_box img_id=”3270″ title_link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Fsmartyschool.stylemixthemes.com%2Fcourse-schedule%2F||” css=”.vc_custom_1661454349988{margin-bottom: 40px !important;}”]The process includes revision and reflection. Students learn to give and receive feedback in order to improve the quality of the work they create and are asked to think about what and how they are learning.[/stm_image_box][stm_image_box img_id=”3270″ title_link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Fsmartyschool.stylemixthemes.com%2Fclasses%2F||” css=”.vc_custom_1661454421514{margin-bottom: 40px !important;}”]Students present their projects to a public audience beyond their classmates and teacher on Culmination Day. Students are extremely well-versed in the ins and outs of their projects and are able to answer queries from the audience, spontaneously. It is a wonderful opportunity for the students to reflect on learning and showcase their talents. In the long run, this Culmination Day is about providing a platform to students for presenting their hard work and prepares them for the rigours of this dynamic world.[/stm_image_box][/vc_column][/vc_row]
