Achievements and Highlights
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Catalyzed a self sustaining Community of Practice of educators to support learning through play -
Developed resources to ensure continuity and scalability, including a digital platform lessons plans, a teacher guide and student activity sheets
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Enhanced educators digital fluency and capacity to utilize resources for self-directed professional development
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Increased engagement of female educators and students with STEM practices
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Improved capacity of local manufacturing through co-creation and knowledge sharing
Tilak Sharma
I reflect on how my pedagogy has changed. I used to think silent classes were good, but now I question classrooms where only the teacher talks. I think interaction is essential for students to learn.
Rupa Manandhar
Our students were building a catapult and most of them were working on more or less the same design that was modeled in the activity sheet. We ran out of masking tapes and they couldn't hold the sticks together as shown in the activity sheet. The students started trying out different ways to hold the catapult together. All the groups tried multiple approaches and all of them came up catapults of different designs. Some of the designs were actually sturdier than the previous ones with the masking tape. It was really interesting to see how sometimes limitations could force children to be creative and try out different things and come up with really good solutions. For me as a teacher, each PEBL lesson I deliver brings new insights into learning.
Gopal Bhandari
Students who struggle with academics, who score low grades, and hardly engage in regular classes, are the ones that actively engage and excel in the PEBL hands-on lessons. This has made me question the effectiveness of our teaching methods. I have realized that any child can learn if the method is suitable.
Sabina Adhikari
Our school does not have a science lab. Through PEBL, I was able to teach science lessons such as chromatography and periscope with hands-on materials. I have started to tackle challenges creatively and to design my own lesson plans utilizing limited materials after being part of this program.
Sujan Tamang
In our second PEBL session, we learned to make catapult. It was very exciting to design and build a catapult. I felt very happy when I successfully made a slingshot style catapult. I enjoyed the whole process and wanted to make a catapult that could throw more than one stone bullet at a time. After multiple tries, I was able to come up with a catapult that could throw multiple stone bullets at the same time.
