LINCS provides professional development opportunities for its members in the form of a series of optional online courses developed by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education’s Literacy Information and Communication System (LINCS) Resource Collection initiative. These online courses are self-paced, freely available, and accessible 24 hours a day through the LINCS Learning Portal. (Please note: Individuals will need to create a separate login and password to access the online courses housed in the LINCS Learning Portal.) Users can work at their own pace, at a time that is most convenient to them.
Online Course: Project-Based Science Instruction for Career Pathways
Module #1: Using Project-Based Learning for Career Preparation
This course explores connections between science content knowledge and how adults use science in their daily lives, especially in work and career-related contexts. The course is self-paced and features three modules: (1) Using Project-Based Learning to Connect Science Instruction to Daily Life; (2) Preparing Adults for STEM Careers via Project-Based Learning; and (3) Mapping Science Education to Career Paths.
The first module provides several opportunities for discussion on topics related to instruction and project-based learning. Please use this thread to discuss the following:
- Reflect on your own practices of integrating science into your adult education classroom and helping your learners prepare for a career. What specific strategies, activities, and methods do you use? Consider these examples. Which ones seem to be the most effective? How do you know?
- How might project-based learning work in your own classroom?
Comments
I have not used project based learning in science in our HSE program. That is why I have enrolled in this course. I have used it in Math and Language but not science. We do teach an IET for home health care that is project based learning and an IET in math that is project based that I feel engages students. Therefore I hope for ideas in the science field to include as well.