Moving ahead with the conventional approach and old-school model of learning and reciting facts is no longer sustainable in today’s highly technological society. Project-Based Learning (PBL) is an impactful teaching technique enlightening students with skills and knowledge, varying from project management to assertiveness. 

The Buck Institute for Education (BIE) states, with PBL students “investigate and respond to an authentic, engaging, and complex problem, or challenge, with deep and sustained attention. ArchForKids LLC explains it even more precisely: PBL is “learning by doing.”

Various studies have highlighted significant improvements in student test scores, attendance and classroom engagement. There is a great requirement for 21st century students to carry skills like time management, information synthesizing, problem-solving, research gathering, teamwork, critical thinking, communicating and utilizing high-tech tools. 

Apart from the escalation of academic achievement, PBL is transformative as it hones students’ personal growth, making them more aware of their learning process, guided and mentored by a skilled teacher. 

In this day and age, where everything is so fast-paced, we need well-equipped young people to stand up and be able to match the needed intensity. PBL is a step towards the future, as it slowly transitions into solving the real-world problems rather than the traditional exam-based and essay learning stratagem. 

Education is the primary concern for the upcoming generation. In the given circumstances and complex society that we live in, PBL is rapidly making an appearance in the minds of the educationists and policymakers, who are willing to introduce it into the education system. 

Projects have creative and viable existence, they are an active source of learning, and it is better to hand out projects to students rather than making them sit and reciting it all out for them. This would help the students engage more authentically in the given topics and generate interest and look for best and practical solutions. 

Below are various benefits of project-based learning and how it can nurture our kids into looking for tangible problems, live in a world of facts and then come up with unfeigned explication.

1. Project Management: Sizing up assignments, setting priorities, creating a timeline, all these factors help students to facilitate and manage their projects more coherently. Students learn about their strengths and weaknesses and how much effort they’re willing to put into any given project.

2. Collaboration: Relationships with the teachers, fellow group and community members grow strong, giving the students different perspectives and insights at looking towards a project, asking open-ended questions and tackling challenges for future references and beyond.

3. Teachers Spend Less Time Teaching Individuals: In PBL, students can teach students. Any given student who has grasped the underlying concept of a given topic can create an atmosphere of collective learning by teaching and explaining the methods to other students. Hence, PBL can be used as a solution for teachers to spend less time catering to each individual in a class.

4. Critical Thinking: Students become solution-oriented and they are always looking to deal with the potential hindrances in the most efficient way, thinking of ways to find solutions.

5. Creativity: With an in-depth understanding of their projects and what they want out of it, students think of innovative ideas and various possibilities to execute their plans. 

6. Scope of Work: The first and foremost benefit of PBL is that it allows educators, teachers, and students to swiftly adopt new structures around projects and give up on having lecture-based learning and reading-writing assignments of the traditional approach. Students get an overview of their entire project and how they can move forward with it. 

7. Prepared for the Real-World: PBL enables students to face real-world problems in the form of projects. Each project is an experiment, and with each success and failure, they learn something new. PBL students enter the field with enough experience and rationality, realizing the needs of today’s world and are not disembodied with logical reasoning and reality of society. 

8. Inclusion of Technology: Students select projects based on their interests, and are more likely to have technology involved such as computers, internet, interactive whiteboards, cameras and GPS Devices. 

9. Tracking of Progress: In PBL, there is an opportunity to track the progress of the activities of both the students and the teacher. However, this phenomenon is missing and non-existent in the traditional classroom-based structure.

10. Problem Solving: Going through an entire process of a project, students face real community issues, and can develop a coping mechanism with various stages like project scoping, work planning, activity performing and tracking. Students learn to monitor, carry out observations, conduct surveys, research, report, present and communicate, and collaborate with people involved.