Facilitator Development Program
The Buck Institute for Education helps prepare educators to use Project Based Learning (PBL) to teach students rich content and help them develop the skills necessary for 21st century success. The most effective way for us to achieve our mission and make our vision concrete is to partner with organizations that share our view of education. These partnerships are collaborative and enduring. We have one over-arching goal in these partnerships: To create local capacity for the effective, long-term implementation of PBL.
The BIE Facilitator Development Program (FDP) is designed to help us do just that. Graduates of our FDP will become the instructional leaders who guide PBL implementation in our partner districts, counties and states.
The Facilitator Development Program, what others in this field call a trainer-of-trainers program, is intended to increase the scale of effective, long-term PBL implementation and to leverage the skills, knowledge and resources of partner organizations. The benefits of the program are as follows:
For partner organizations
- Creation of a local cadre of PBL expert facilitators
- On-going access to new BIE materials, processes and protocols for teachers, coaches and administrators
- Discounts on BIE materials
- Membership in an informal national network of organizations focused on PBL
For participating staff
- Extended and embedded professional development on best practices in PBL design, assessment and management
- Adjunct membership in BIE National Faculty
- Access to proprietary BIE web properties
- Participation in an annual Workshop Facilitator Development Program summit
Click here to download a description of the program.
Contact Director of Teacher Professional Development & Dean of National Faculty David Ross (415-883-0122 x 309) for more information on pricing or workshop content.
