PRESENTER: Olga Morozan

January 17, 2015

PBI
a systematic teaching method
that engages students in learning knowledge
and skills through an extended inquiry process,
structured around complex, authentic
questions
and
carefully designed products and tasks.
This process can last for varying time periods
and can extend over multiple content areas.

PBI
requires complex tasks, based on challenging
questions or problems, that:
involve students in design, problem-solving,
decision making, or investigative activities;
give students the opportunity to work
relatively autonomously over extended
periods of time; and
culminate in realistic products or
presentations.

PBIs BENEFITS
Nicoleta: Since project-based learning represents a more
flexible approach to instruction, it allows teachers to tailor
assignments and projects for students with a diverse variety
of interests, career aspirations, learning styles, abilities, and
personal backgrounds.
Dumitru Grusca: It improves critical thinking, develops the
interest on the subject, and abilities of communications of
the students.
Emma: The core issue of PBL is the rule of three C:
critical thinking, collaboration and communication

PBIs BENEFITS
Irina Pusheney: BPL allows students getting multi-faced
formative assessment in form of small checking throughout
the whole work, hints not answers from the part of the teacher
that will help them make decisions, take responsibilities and
self manage.
Rodica Aculov: Give our students the possibility to taste
and to chew some issues in order to find solutions ,good or
bad but they will get by experience , their experience but not
from the book that was written many years ago.
Oxana Cazacu: Being involved in this type of learning the
students develop lifelong skills necessary for their future
growth. It is a method that imply connection between the
learners and the real world, it is based on practicing as well.

From 2010 to 2014 - 19 Access sites in 17 regions

of Moldova
(180 students,
190 Alumni, 18 English teachers and 20 teacher
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From 2010- up-to-date:

10 iEARN Learning Circles;
Developed and implemented 59 online
projects

All projects have been publish

iEARN web site,

iEARN Moldova web site
(https://iearnmoldova.wordpress.com)

Global Youth Service Day Campaign

200 young and active teenagers

Give Your Toy a New Life

Campaign:
200 Access students collected
780 toys and donated to
orphanages from 10 regions

Making Changes through Social Theater Project,

Project
within the American Councils International Outreach
Fund
Main goal: to enhance students' civic responsibilities and positive attitude towards
their challenging society, by trying to find optimal solutions for the most actual
problems the community faces, and to teach other people how to act properly in the act
of discrimination, social injustice or intolerance..

Beneficiaries:
60 Access students
fom 3 orpahanges
( Orhei, Straseni and Ialoveni),
100 kids
from other orphanages,
Childrens Social Rehabilitation Centers
and kindergartens

I Want To Go To School Too campaign

Beneficiaries:
Almost 310 children living in orphanages or socially vulnerable families
received collected school supplies by 125 Access students and alumni
from 10 regions of Moldova.

Is It Write or Right? Spelling Contest

to promote education and the English literacy
among Moldovan students.
( 9 Winners received "To Build a Fire story collection,
written by Jack London, a gift from the U.S. Embassy to
Moldova)
Participants:
-40 Access Alumi, 6 Access former teachers, 3 EFL
teachers from other partner educational institutions;
-180 high-school students from 8 regions.

DOGTOBER Campaign

1.Promote Animal Protection, posting announcements with Animal

Protection messages in their schools and towns/villages,
2. Organize campaign on feeding the homeless dogs from your community,
3. Make a small research in the community on the most popular Dog's name
in Moldova, and people's literacy on raising or educating a dog, etc.

TASK 2:
Identify comprising elements of 2 selected
projects presented below:
Target problems the project addresses;
Project goals from civic and EFL teaching
perspectives;
Project beneficiaries;
Project partners;
Project finalities from civic and EFL
teaching perspectives;
Students English level
(beginner, elementary, pre-intermediate,
intermediate, upper-intermediate, advanced).

A Letter to Santa Clause

Access Youth in Action Flashmo

b

Save the Planet with a Planted F

lower
Sharing is Caring
Talking Kites Around the World
Informing the Mihai Eminescu
Community
A New Life for Sport and
Youth

Project Preparation

Driving Question Checklist:

Is the question open-ended and
has more than one answer?
Is the question simple enough
for students to understand but
has complex answers?
Do the students need to learn
the content and skills from set
education standards in order to
answer the question?
Are the other classes answering
the same or a similar question for
joint project work?

Final Product Ideas:

Design, market, and sell products to fundraise for
a cause or contribute to a community effort;
Produce a joint student newsletter, magazine, or
literary anthology;
Produce video documentaries to show in a global
film festival;
Create histories of local communities worldwide
and publish in a book;
Create a photo essay to share on a website,
calendar, etc.
Plan and conduct workshops (conflict resolution,
recycling) for younger students in the community;
Create a global art gallery;
Conduct joint fundraising efforts or public
awareness campaigns to address a common issue
(pollution, hunger).

2014-2015 iEARN Project Book

Global Issues as Sources for

Project Topics

Cultural diversity; Disasters;

Education; Environment; Food security;
Globalization;
Governance; Health; Human rights; Peace building;
Poverty reduction; Refugees;
Water and sanitation.

What project topic(s) and finalities /outcomes would be more

appropriate to your students level and your teaching style?
Irina Pushney:
The project topics suitable to my students age, level should deal with teaching,
university, educational technology.
I 'd like to work with projects like My University, Your University, Electronic
University Magazine, or the ones that will suit my course curriculum
Educational Technology Workshops projects based on surveys as they are meant to make students and teachers in the
world aware of schools and education worldwide increasing mutual
understanding, cross-cultural awareness, to share school events, to develop
creative writing, communicative skills.

Nicoleta:
Project topics more appropriate to my students:
1. Class Magazine on one of the following topics: fashion, technology, food
and drinks, etc.
Outcomes: they can write about a topic relevant to their interests or careers.
This activity, although very fun and relaxed, is very beneficial as it requires
students to discuss with their partners in English and write articles.
Survey projects are always favourite, because it means the students can
leave the class to go out and find their data. There are infinite topics for surveys
and questionnaires.
Outcomes: to present their information, as graphs, paragraphs, pamphlet or
poster using Web 2.0 tools
Both are a great way to put into practice skills that have been learnt during an
English course.

What challenge(s) might come along in

developing and implementing Project
Based Instruction with your students?
Nicoleta:
Students who might be unwilling or unable to work
cooperatively with others to accomplish a goal. It takes
time, effort, and guidance to develop a system in which
all students can work together in mutually beneficial
ways;
Teachers content knowledge, students lack of
experience in PBL and their preferences for
traditional-structured approach that emphasize passive
learning, in addition the organization and
administration of PBL can be very time-consuming.

Irina Pushney:
These projects may come across such challenges as:
time and task management,
poor university events,
the difficulty of finding a partner university for sharing
and comparing university aspects
such as routine, campus, events, etc.

Useful Sample Projects

Making Changes through Social Theater
Making Changes through Youth-Civic
Engagement Projects

Thank