Design Based Learning
Mission Statement
Create a learning environment that:
- Focuses on challenging, multidisciplinary curriculum
- Engages students in complex, real-world projects through which they develop and apply skills and knowledge
- Requires students to draw from many disciplines in order to solve problems
- Encourages student decision making
- Problems are presented without a predetermined solution
- Students design the process for reaching a solution
- Students are in charge of accessing and managing the information they gather
- Reflection and evaluation take place continuously
- Classroom has an atmosphere that tolerates error and change
- Links curriculum and projects to academic standards
- Results in academic excellence and improved SBACC test results