At first, I thought the acronym PBL stands for the Philippine Basketball League that my older brother used to watch. What is the relevance of a basketball league to educating students?!
But hey. . . .
. . .yeah basketball league and making students learned can be the same just like their acronym are the same.
The coach is the teacher and the students are the player.
When I was in high school, I encountered many projects that are given by our teachers, some I don't know the purpose but some of them I enjoyed doing even though I don't really get a high grades on finishing them(yeah,really especially if its an art project because that is my favorite). I didn't know that these teachers are helping me practice and develop my skills for the next game of my higher years of studying just like how a coach train his players to run, jump and shoot.I didn't even imagined back then that I will also be a future coach.Little by little I can now understand why my teachers back then always give us projects.
So going on the Project based learning.It is defined as student centered and helping promote learning by assessing the performance through a product that has been made by the students. The students here are the players and the coach which is the teacher is guiding or facilitating them on his well planned instruction to win the game of learning. Students can develop self-confidence and can achieve the 21st century skills that can help them improve themselves and the society or community where they live.They are actually the ones who are doing the task, they are the ones who is playing the game and just like in a basketball game helping their team mates, being able to help the team gain points or the learning that they must achieve.Students can achieve the fulfillment of being able to apply their learning on a product that they never imagined they can do.Through the use of project based learning, students are being active in the classroom unlike on the past where the were just sitting there and listening on the teacher's discussion, and yes sometimes not. They can now plan on what to do what good moves or strategies to make and they could also develop their relationship with their classmates or their team mates in the game which is included in the 21st century skills.
I think there is still more about project based learning that I haven't discovered yet and still discovering in this subject.But I'm still willing to join the league and help win the game of acquiring and sending learning to students.
