Teacher Training & Classroom Management Past session

Active Learning through Project-Based Education

Name: Active Learning through Project-Based Education
Start: 2025-10-20
End: 2025-10-24
Location: Ema Antalya

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Session dates20–24 Oct 2025

LocationEma Antalya

Duration5 days

FundingErasmus+ eligible

About this course

A poster at the end of a unit, a diorama, a slideshow with a title page — plenty of classrooms already call this project-based learning, and the work behind it is often real. What is missing is not effort. It is a definition strict enough to tell you what your project is short of before…

Methodology

Designed Against a Published Standard, Not a Blank Page

Every participant works on one real project for their own class, and at each stage it is measured against a named element of the Gold Standard model rather than against how it feels.

The Week Runs the Way a Project Runs

Critique and revision on Thursday, a public product on Friday — participants go through the last two elements themselves rather than hearing them described, which is also the fastest way to see why pupils resist both.

Tools Where the Work Needs Them

Digital tools appear at the points in a project where they do real work — finding and judging sources during the inquiry, collaborating across a team, and making the product itself — rather than as a separate topic with its own day.

What you'll take home

Turn a curriculum topic into a driving question that meets the Gold Standard's first element, with the content standards the project must teach named before the question is written.

Design a sustained inquiry that runs over weeks, and decide what makes the project authentic — real context, real tools, real audience, or an honest substitute your school can actually reach.

Write the pupils' choice points and the reflection checkpoints into a project timetable, and set out how individual learning will be assessed inside a group product.

Score your own project with PBLWorks' Project Design Rubric, element by element, and revise the two elements that score weakest.

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25 hours of training & materials Certificate of attendance Europass Mobility document Half-day guided city tour with a local guide

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Where our participants come from

Aggregated across all EMA courses, not specific to this session.

Romanian 23%

Polish 14%

Lithuanian 10%

Spanish 7%

Portuguese 7%

+ educators from 19 more countries across Europe and beyond

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