E-Courses
Master PBL at your own pace!
Designed to meet the needs of teachers working with limited time and resources, CraftED offers the first virtual PBL teacher learning hub: PBL on Demand! Each course has been carefully designed by international PBL expert Dr. Jenny Pieratt to help teachers develop their own expertise in PBL, gaining strategies and tactics to add the best practices of PBL to your professional development. Move through these bite-sized courses at your own pace and be armed and ready to implement what you learn the next day!
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Each E-Course includes:
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What people are saying about these Online PBL Courses:
FAQs
We recommend you start with the Level 1 e-courses, which include PBL Certification and Brainstorming. They’re even a great refresher for people who are already familiar with PBL. Start with an e-course and grab the book we offer on that topic, and you’ll hit the ground running!
Yes! And that’s not just our opinion – as the thousands of educators who have already taken CraftED’s e-courses and emerged ready to bring PBL to their classrooms. Our e-courses offer the same content as our in-person training, in a convenient format for schools to employ. Your teachers can access the courses on their own schedule, at their convenience, and receive the same in-depth, carefully guided PBL training they would get in an in-person workshop.
Did you know? Teachers have also used CraftED’s PBL courses to guide their Professional Learning Communities by aligning the e-course topics to Problems of Practice. Get ideas and learn more HERE.
Educators are under more pressure to bring PBL to classrooms – in some cases, legislatures are stepping in and demanding it. For example, the state of Indiana has already set new guidelines for teachers that they are now scrambling to meet!
The good news is that CraftED’s PBL courses are designed to make compliance convenient. While you may be required to learn it, our goal is to help you enjoy doing so. You’ll learn exactly what you need to know to bring PBL to your classroom successfully.
While CraftED does not offer extension units, we can work with local county offices and universities to arrange for professional learning credits.
Project-based learning is a process of constant improvement; we are learning alongside our students. You can gain an elementary understanding of the basics of what is commonly understood as “PBL” within just hours. Check out our PBL 101 online course for just one example! We call this “PBL in your Pajamas” because it’s a digestible introduction to what you need to know to take your first steps with these exciting educational theories.
Onsite training is best implemented when it spans over a time period of 6 months to 3 years, so that there is opportunity for various touchpoints and reflection and refinement. Workshops run anywhere between 2 hours-6 hours and can be broken up as needed to work with your PD schedule
Absolutely! Our specialty is finding the right way to train teams under time and budget constraints. For example, we often break workshops into a series about building out projects and assessment tools. A schoolwide (or district-wide) license may also be a strong option for you, allowing your staff to engage in PD on the days and times most convenient to them (and you!)
We make it convenient to help individual teachers train or “catch up” with other staff that have trained with us or elsewhere. Our e-courses are the fastest way to align your staff, and are available for individual license or for a schoolwide site license to all of our online PBL e-courses.
“The PBL Certificate”, for example, is a great place for new hires to start, giving them a quick and budget-friendly way to get up to speed with their teaching teams. They can take this course on-demand, and it offers the exact same content as our in-person trainings for a fraction of that price.
We offer a much broader set of PBL courses, so if you are interested in training more than just a couple of staff members, a sitewide license to our PBL e-course library would provide a rich set of flexible training resources for educators of all levels of familiarity with PBL.
Our books offer additional training options for home self-study for those new to PBL, or those seeking a refresher!
Individual prices for each course are provided on the individual course page.
Site License Pricing for the PBL Bundle is as follows:
10-40 teachers 15% savings
40-100 teachers 20% savings
100-200 teachers 25% savings
300 + teachers 50% savings
As an individual, you can pay using a credit card on the course page or you can email jenny@craftedcurriuclum.com for an estimate for a P.O. For site licenses you will need a formal estimate required for Purchase Order requisition. Email jenny@craftedcurriculum.com with the number of teachers you are interested in purchasing a site license for, billing, and shipping address. Upon P.O approval you will need to provide all emails for participants, and then they will be granted immediate access to the courses and materials will be shipped.
To train an entire staff in project-based learning (PBL) virtually, and here is how:
- Build a blended learning experience for teachers that includes asynchronous learning models in the e-courses, combined with virtual project coaching and/or virtual custom PD workshops with CraftED.
- Use as an affordable hybrid PD option by leveraging CraftED’s remote services and e-courses, along with CraftED’s onsite workshops
- Use CraftED’s e-courses and “Keep it real with PBL” workbook as asynchronous learning modules to develop teachers at their own level (e-courses are leveled 1-3) and pace. Click here to learn how to help teachers develop a Personalized PD plan using these e-courses.
- Leverage e-course topics as an instructional focus for PLCs or school wide teaching/learning goals, focused on specific nuances of PBL.
- Assessment to show completion of the “PBL Certification”
- Follow up support available with virtual project coaching
- Bonus Q&A module for school leaders in the “PBL Certification” course
- Concrete deliverables from teachers in the form of project planning forms
- Teachers will have access FOREVER!
- Train new hires in the future by granting access to these courses
Are your teachers new to PBL?
Start with Level 1 courses: “Brainstorming projects” and the “PBL Certification” .
Do you have a staff with mixed experience in PBL?
Start with the “PBL Certification course” and then move on to Level 2 and 3 courses
Have your teachers been implementing PBL and looking to improve their projects?
Jump in to level 2 or 3 courses, BUT we have also received feedback that Level 1 courses were a great calibration exercise for ALL staff members to complete.
-Create timelines and group and/ or individual goals to keep all teachers similarly paced
-Have teachers share out their learning and action steps periodically
-Consider running a reflection and refinement (CraftED recommends a Looking at Student work protocol!) PD after all teachers have run the projects developed through these courses.
If you would like to purchase an e-course directly from the site using paypal, there are no required materials. If you are looking to purchase the e-courses as a site license for your staff and/or require an estimate for a P.O then the following required materials, which are fully aligned to the e-courses are required for purchase: 1) Keep it Real with PBL project planning guide ($29/teacher) 2) Planning and Assessing PBL guide ($10/teacher)