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

  • Webinar 9: How to assess a PBL unit


    31 July 2024, 4:00 - 4:30pm AEST

    Presenter: 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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