Experiential Approaches to Education

Here are a few helpful recent articles.

First, we have some resources for project-based learning:

• A Better List Of Ideas For Project-Based Learning
• Twenty Ideas for Engaging Projects
• A Collection of Project Based Learning End Product
• A new project, A Model for High-Quality PBL, "will identify the essential components of PBL and provide quality and consistency across classrooms, schools, districts and states. The purpose of the guidelines is to increase widespread and consistent use of high-quality PBL and cultivate project management skills."​

Considering another approach, EdSurge has a fascinating introduction to place-based education, featuring Arizona's STAR School.

STAR is a proponent of place-based education (PBE), a philosophy that aims to immerse students in the local history, culture and ecology of the area they live and learn in, using these as the foundation for academic study. Schools that practice PBE view the community as an extension of the classroom rather than a separate entity. At STAR, PBE is apparent in every aspect of the school, from the food served to the community-based service projects students design and complete every year.

...research reveals that place-based learning “boosts student achievement, improves environmental, social, and economic vitality, and fosters students’ connection to community.”