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From http://www.pblinthetl.com

 

In this blog post, Laura Sexton discusses how to make the best use of community partners in project-based learning. She writes, "Community Partners are pretty much the whole point of PBL in language classes: you WANT students interacting and using the language outside of your classroom! What makes a project authentic is actually engaging with people who use the language in Real Life, right? So I have always advocated enlisting at least one Public Audience of native speakers or language learners before your kiddos leave. 

 

"The Community Partners relationship hasn't always been a very cut-and-dried, though, as we frequently got more out of interactions before presentation day than we did when the Public Products were ready for the public consumption.

 

"...It comes back to the NFLRC recommended strategy for formulating Driving Questions that I got from their online symposium:

• Collaborate with...

• to investigate...

• and develop a..."

 

Read the full blog post at http://www.pblinthetl.com/2018/06/community-partners-in-pbl-projects.html