Tools for Teachers
This comprehensive guide equips teachers with practical strategies and tools to implement collaborative challenge-based learning. It covers designing engaging real-world challenges, facilitating active student collaboration, monitoring progress, assessing outcomes, and continually improving the learning experience. Whether you’re new to challenge-based learning or seeking to enhance your approach, this guide provides an actionable framework to foster critical thinking and problem-solving skills through student-centered, team-based challenges.
Annex 1 enables teachers to efficiently design and structure collaborative challenge-based learning experiences. It provides designated sections to document key details including participating subjects, student team organization, challenge overview, learning objectives, action plan, timing, resources, and more. The template supports consistency in challenge creation while allowing flexibility to tailor challenges to specific learning goals.
This student-focused template (Annex 2) outlines key information about collaborative challenges including the goal, tasks, timing, resources, and evaluation criteria. The streamlined format enables student teams to clarify expectations, align understanding, plan actions, track progress, and ultimately solve real-world problems. It empowers students to take ownership and direct their learning journey.
