Problem Based Learning
Problem Based Learning (PBL) is a strategy to lead a more student driven classroom. Students work in small groups to complete a problem together. The problem is usually challenging which the students need to work on to come up with an answer. In a PBL setting, the teacher moves from role of teacher to role of facilitator and the students assume the role of teacher. In the beginning this type of instruction may be difficult for the students, but as the class progresses using the problem based learning method students will become more independent, confident in themselves and their work, and more proficient in solving problems.
In my Geometry class, I use problem based learning quite often. At the start of the year I give my students more simple problems for them to solve and as the year progresses the problems get more complex. The student starts to take over his/her learning and is more comfortable with solving problems. More specifically, I spend a unit on constructions in Geometry and the students start out constructing easy items, such as, line segments, midpoints, and angles. They usually construct these in groups of two. I then put them in groups of three to four and they have to construct a triangle consisting of a circumcenter, orthocenter, and incenter. I give them a description of what each is and then I turn into the facilitator and allow the students to work together. The students are to construct these three points in the triangle and come up with a conclusion to what they have constructed.
http://www.udel.edu/pbl/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem-based_learning
http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/pbl/info.html
http://www.pbli.org/pbl/pbl.htm
In my Geometry class, I use problem based learning quite often. At the start of the year I give my students more simple problems for them to solve and as the year progresses the problems get more complex. The student starts to take over his/her learning and is more comfortable with solving problems. More specifically, I spend a unit on constructions in Geometry and the students start out constructing easy items, such as, line segments, midpoints, and angles. They usually construct these in groups of two. I then put them in groups of three to four and they have to construct a triangle consisting of a circumcenter, orthocenter, and incenter. I give them a description of what each is and then I turn into the facilitator and allow the students to work together. The students are to construct these three points in the triangle and come up with a conclusion to what they have constructed.
http://www.udel.edu/pbl/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem-based_learning
http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/pbl/info.html
http://www.pbli.org/pbl/pbl.htm
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