Level up your PBL expertise
Our fortnightly webinars help you get the most out of Cura and become an expert PBL practitioner
Term 3 Webinars
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Webinar 9: How to assess a PBL unit
31 July 2024, 4:00 - 4:30pm AESTPresenter: Ayrton Eldridge, Cura Founder
Covering:
How to balance formative and summative assessment
How to balance individual and team assessment
How to assess a student's end product
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Webinar 10: How to introduce + embed PBL successfully to your school
14 August 2024, 4:00 - 4:30pm AEST
Presenter: Ayrton Eldridge, Cura Founder
Covering:
How to get staff on board with PBL
How to choose where to introduce PBL
How to gradually scale its use within your school
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Webinar 11: How to help students resolve team conflict
28 August 2024, 4:00 - 4:30pm AEST
Presenter: Ayrton Eldridge
Covering:
How to help students identify issues within a team
How to help students work through issues dispassionately
How to give students tools to continually monitor team dynamics to ensure they're working effectively together
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Webinar 12: How to build design thinking into a PBL unit
11 September 2024, 4:00 - 4:30pm AEST
Presenter: Ayrton Eldridge, Cura Founder
Covering:
What is design thinking?
How to create a PBL unit underpinned by design thinking
How to identify and teach the skills needed for design thinking
Term 2 Webinars
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Webinar 4: How to use Cura to blend explicit teaching and hands-on application
24 April 2024, 4:00 - 4:30pm AEST
Presenter: Ayrton Eldridge, Cura Founder
Covering:
Explicit teaching in a PBL unit
How Cura's units are structured to incorporate explicit teaching
The importance of transfer learning in a PBL unit
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Webinar 5: How to scaffold a unit towards the end product
15 May 2024, 4:00 - 4:30pm AEST
Presenter: Ayrton Eldridge, Cura Founder
Covering:
How to ensure an end product reinforces content knowledge
How to help scaffold curriculum application towards the end product
How to teach students the skills they need to create a high-quality end product
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Webinar 6: How to use Cura for differentiation
22 May 2024, 4:00 - 4:30pm AEST
Presenter: Ayrton Eldridge
Covering:
How Cura effectively engages at-risk or struggling students
How Cura effectively enriches the learning experience of high-ability students
How to use Cura to differentiate within the same class
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Webinar 7: How to establish group norms to ensure successful student collaboration
5 June 2024, 4:00 - 4:30pm AEST
Presenter: Ayrton Eldridge, Cura Founder
Covering:
How to use user manuals to help students better understand themselves and others
How to use team contracts to establish group norms and expectations
How to review and reinforce these norms across a unit
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Webinar 8: How to edit Cura's units
19 June 2024, 4:00-4:30pm AEST
Presenter: Ayrton Eldridge, Cura Founder
Covering:
Introducing Cura's new editable units
How to add your own content into a unit
How to change questions and rubrics
How to hide and remove content and questions
Q&A
Term 1 Webinars
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Webinar 1: Using PBL to create engaged students
28 February 2024, 4:00 - 4:30pm AEDT
Presenter: Ayrton Eldridge, Cura Founder
Covering:
The difference between engaged and strategically compliant students
How to use PBL to produce committed, engaged students
How to structure a PBL unit, for student voice and agency
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Webinar 2: How to build teamwork into a Cura unit
13 March 2024, 4:00 - 4:30pm AEDT
Presenter: Ayrton Eldridge, Cura Founder
Covering:
How to group students in teams across a unit
How to assess student work, both individually and as a team
How to help students work effectively as a team
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Webinar 3: How to choose the right unit for you
20 March 2024, 4:00 - 4:30pm AEDT
Presenter: Ayrton Eldrige, Cura Founder
Covering:
The difference between Cura's projects and micro-units
How to use the Explore page to find suitable units
to build a Cura unit into your teaching scope and sequence
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