Implementing TPSP Projects with Project Pals

Implementing project-based learning and inquiry-based learning is challenging. The process requires teachers to design the project, create templates for students, manage student collaboration, review multiple projects and assess student contributions when it is almost impossible to tell who did what in the project. Multiply this by the number of projects done each year by students and you get a mission impossible that teachers have to deal with.

That’s where Project Pals comes in. Project Pals is a platform that makes it easy to consolidate the entire process. Teachers can skip the design process by using one of its pre-made catalog templates, help manage the project by utilizing its tasks, and make it easy to assess student contribution and performance by using its project analytics. Project Pals also makes it easy to implement the gifted and talented teachers’ requirement  to assign at least one Texas Performance Standards Project (TPSP) to their students by mapping many TPSP projects into Project Pals.

In this 6-hour course, Implementing TPSP Projects with Project Pals, former teacher and instructional technology professional Miriam Bogler goes in depth on the Project Pals platform and how to best utilize it for implementing the TPSP projects with your students. Project Pals does all the heavy lifting, while you focus on the students.

In this thorough 6-hour course, you’ll learn:

• What project-based learning is
• The basics of using Project Pals
• How to create classes in Project Pals
• The advanced features of Project Pals
• How to map a TPSP project into Project Pals

Miriam is a former technology teacher and an instructional technology professional with over twenty years of experience. Miriam has a Practical Engineering degree in Computer Science from the Beer-Sheva Practical Engineering College in Israel, a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Mount St. Mary’s College in Los Angeles and a master’s degree in Educational Technology Leaderships from George Washington University in Washington D.C. Miriam worked as a computer teacher and tech coordinator at several Southern California private and public schools. Miriam’s professional experiences include teaching computer science to students grades K-12, the establishment of a successful after-school technology program, the implementation of a technology school plan, and the creation of instructional materials for teachers to conceptualize, plan and execute projects utilizing technology. In 2002, Miriam established Apollo’s Vision Computer Clubs, a technology-based after school educational club, that provided cutting-edge robotics classes to students in public schools in the greater Los Angeles area. Miriam is now the founder & CEO of Project Pals, an all-in-one project management platform for collaborative and project-based learning. Project Pals is the evolution and culmination of Miriam’s extensive experience utilizing technology to develop 21st century skills.