Today, educators who participated in a 126-hour professional development
course during Summer 2014 paid a courtesy call to OAS Bahamas and
received their certificates for successfully completing the OAS
International Intel Project Based Learning Course.
Educators, who were scholarship recipients for the course, shined as
they represented the Bahamas among more than 30 participants from more
than 20 other OAS countries in the web-based course.
The course which focused on using specific classroom scenarios, which
allowed teachers to explore characteristics and benefits of Project-
Based Learning (PBL) in 21st century classrooms. Throughout the course, teachers reviewed their current integration
of ICT and consider methods to further develop this in the
future. Planning and project design modules guided teachers through
organizing the curriculum, the classroom, and students for successful
21st century projects. The assessment module demonstrated
strategies for assessing students’ 21st century skills throughout an
open-ended project. Overall the course offered opportunities to
apply ICT integration and PBL concepts with action planning exercise.