Systemwide Implementation of Project-Based Learning: The Philadelphia Approach

Autor/inn/en	Schwalm, Jason; Tylek, Karen Smuck
Titel	Systemwide Implementation of Project-Based Learning: The Philadelphia Approach
Quelle	In: Afterschool Matters, (2012) 15, S.1-8 (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Schlagwörter	Active Learning; Student Projects; Program Implementation; Program Descriptions; Systems Approach; Performance Factors; After School Programs; After School Education; Program Effectiveness; Change Strategies; Educational Change; Educational Improvement; Program Improvement; Pennsylvania + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Aktives Lernen; Schulprojekt; Systemischer Ansatz; Leistungsindikator; After school education; After-school programs; Program; Programs; Programme; Außerschulische Jugendbildung; Programm; After school programs; Out of school education; Out-of-school education; Lösungsstrategie; Bildungsreform; Teaching improvement; Unterrichtsentwicklung
Abstract	Citywide implementation of project-based learning highlights the benefits--and the challenges--of promoting exemplary practices across an entire out-of-school time (OST) network. In summer 2009, the City of Philadelphia and its intermediary, the Public Health Management Corporation (PHMC), introduced project-based learning to a network of more than 180 OST programs. Use of project-based learning is now required of all city-funded OST programs that are managed by PHMC. This article describes Philadelphia's systemwide approach to project-based learning. First, the authors review the scholarly literature to define the strategy and discuss its outcomes. Next, they describe Philadelphia's systems approach to project-based learning in OST and outline its successes. Finally, they discuss the challenges presented by a systems approach to implementation, offering recommendations to other cities and their intermediaries that wish to implement project-based learning on a systemwide basis. (Contains 1 table.) (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	National Institute on Out-of-School Time. Wellesley Centers for Women, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02481. Tel: 781-283-2547; Fax: 781-283-3657; e-mail: niost@wellesley.edu; Web site: http://www.niost.org
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10