Implementation of project-based learning in senior high-schools, challenges, strategies, and effect

Project-based learning (PBL) is one of the learning innovation because it is one of the pedagogical approaches to change the way students experience learning and better align it with their experiences outside of school. The use of a new curriculum for elementary and high schools in Indonesia has some aims to develop students’ affection, skills, and knowledge through Scientific Approach. PBL is a great emphasis. It has been placed on students – centered learning, that is teaching learning that makes the students’ needs and experience central to the educational process. The reason that PBL as the learning innovation is to train and drill the student in aspects of the language course. Collaborative in learning has four aspects characterized in learning. Those characteristics are a situation, the interaction, learning mechanism, and how to measure the effect of collaborative toward the strategy such PBL (Project-based learning). The strategy and effect of using PBL for developing students' thinking skills allow them to have creativity. It also encourages them to work cooperatively and leads them to access the information on their own and to demonstrate the knowledge. And keep attention on a negative side, students do not feel encouraged to finish the projects, they lack interest the topic because they do not have an idea for exploring the knowledge integration in the subject.