Teaching Survivor Guilt with PBL
September 18, 2018
By: Jill Koenemann
Source: SmartBrief
It’s one thing to talk about changing the way you teach, and another to actually try a new approach in the classroom. When I was new to project-based learning, setting up projects that would engage my students was a challenge. I was determined to improve my efforts on PBL, and I ended up formulating a project surrounding the challenging subject of survivor’s guilt. Six of my students with varying disabilities read one fiction and one non-fiction book where both protagonists experience survivor’s guilt and post-traumatic stress disorder. I also had them read coverage about the Parkland school shooting and how those kids had to return to school without their friends.
Here’s a video showing how I created and administered the project using Project Pals, an online collaboration platform designed especially for PBL.