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What is PBL? Problem-based learning (PBL) is a curriculum development and instructional approach. What does PBL do? PBL simultaneously develops problem solving strategies, disciplinary knowledge bases, and skills. How does PBL do it? By placing students in the active role of problem-solvers confronted with an ill-structured problem which mirrors real-world problems PBL Consists of Two Complementary Inter-related Processes Curriculum Design Teachers design an ill-structured problem based on desired curriculum outcomes, learner characteristics, and compelling, problematic situations from the real world Teachers develop a sketch or template of teaching and learning events in anticipation of students' learning needs Teachers investigate the range of resources essential to the problem and arrange for their availability Cognitive Coaching Students actively define problems and construct potential solutions Teachers model, coach, and fade in supporting and making explicit students' learning processes which unfold in an organic way . . . Problem-based learning has as its organizing center the ill-structured problem which... is messy and complex in nature requires inquiry, information-gathering, and reflection is changing and tentative has no simple, fixed, formulaic, "right" solution Examples of ill-structured problems used in PBL You are: a scientist at the state department of nuclear safety. Some people in a small community feel their health is at risk because a company keeps thorium piled above ground at one of their plants. What action, if any, should be taken? Summer Challenge 1992, IMSA a consultant to the Department of Fish and Wildlife. A first draft of a plan for the reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone has received strong, negative testimony at hearings. What is your advice regarding the plan? John Thompson, Ecology, IMSA a science advisor at NASA. A planet much like the earth has experienced massive destruction of elements of its biosphere. What is causing the destruction of plant life? Can new plants from earth be successfully introduced to help save the planet's environment? Bill Orton, 2nd grade, Williamsburg, VA a thirty-six year old single working mother with a five year old daughter. Upon your husband's death, you receive $20,000 in worker's compensation and $10,000 in stock option shares. How can you invest this money so that by your daughter's 18th birthday, its growth is maximized? LuAnn Malik, Community College of Aurora, Aurora, CO a member of President Truman's Interim Committee. What advice will you give the President to help end the war in the Pacific?
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