UTCH 350 Project-Based Instruction
(2-2-3) PBI is based on the premise that project-based instruction engages learners in exploring authentic, important, and meaningful questions of real concern to secondary students. Project-based instruction promotes equitable and diverse participation and engages high school students in learning. Students design full units of connected lessons - a skill that is required in Apprentice Teaching. Students synthesize a number of the major principles and themes of the MSUTeach program as they develop an intellectually challenging project-based instructional unit. This course initially provides for student experiencing PBI as a student through a unit project in which the students develop usable materials to explore special populations and how to accommodate such populations in the classroom. PBI incorporates a variety of instructional approaches, focusing on differentiating between project-based instruction and other instructional methods.