Project-based Language Learning (PBLL) is a teaching approach that involves scaffolding in order to produce a product. That product is often assessed (either formatively or summatively) through performance tasks. In a unit on entrepreneurship for Mitkadmim Bet students majoring in Business Administration, Marketing, and Accounting, students were required to complete two real-world performance tasks within a PBLL approach. The first task was student led and the second was teacher led.
In this talk, I will first address how each performance task was structured and how learning was attained. I will then show examples of student deliverables for both performance tasks. I will conclude by sharing my own insights, as well as challenges for the future.
Participants in this talk will better understand the ways in which real-life skills can be embedded in an EPIC course. In addition, participants will take with them a practical teaching framework in which performance tasks can be implemented in a meaningful, action-oriented and contextual way.