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Problem-Based Learning in K-8 Classrooms

A Teacher's Guide to Implementation

This student-centered approach energizes passive learners and overtaxed teachers!

Problem-based learning (PBL) is the powerful, value-added teaching and learning style. By highlighting core concepts, practical applications, and sample PBL exercises in an easy-to-follow format, this comprehensive quick-reference manual empowers educators with the knowledge and strategies necessary to cultivate engaged, proactive students while alleviating overburdened teachers.

Special features include:

  • A comprehensive definition of PBL and its benefits
  • PBL planning matrixes and sample instructional materials for easy integration into the classroom
  • Real-life success stories of teachers using PBL techniques
  • Detailed PBL problem scenarios specific to each grade level, with examples of student groups working together to solve them

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  • Grade Level: PreK-12
  • ISBN: 9780761945345
  • Published By: Corwin
  • Year: 2002
  • Page Count: 112
  • Publication date: March 12, 2002

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"Using Problem-Based Learning has changed the way I teach completely. My children now learn more, do more, and have much more fun in the process. I have more fun in the process too and, once again, can enjoy the things that attracted me to teaching in the first place. I recommend that every K-8 teacher pick up this book and use it not just for what PBL can do for students, but what it does for teachers!"
Elizabeth Durling, 20-year elementary school teacher
Winston-Salem, North Carolina

This student-centered approach energizes busy teachers and quiet learners!

Problem-Based Learning (PBL) is the powerful, value-added teaching and learning style that hundreds of schools across the country have successfully implemented in their classrooms. By highlighting core concepts, practical applications, and sample PBL exercises in an easy-to-follow format, this comprehensive quick-reference manual empowers educators with the knowledge and strategies necessary to cultivate engaged, proactive students, while alleviating overburdened teachers.

The text vividly illustrates how PBL can enliven curriculum and lesson-planning by encouraging students to play a more central role in their own learning process. It provides a straightforward framework for efficiently and effectively teaching problem-solving skills, tapping children's interests and previous knowledge, and making the curriculum relevant to students' worlds of meaning.

Special features include:

  • Comprehensive definition of PBL and its benefits
  • PBL planning matrixes and sample PBL instructional materials for easy integration into the classroom
  • Real-life success stories of teachers using PBL techniques
  • Detailed PBL problem scenarios specific to each grade level, with examples of how student groups worked together to solve them

Author(s)

Author(s)

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Ann Lambros

Ann Lambros is Director of the Center of Excellence for Research, Teaching, and Learning at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine. She is a consultant to K-12 schools and an expert at the creation and implementation of problem-based learning programs.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

About the Author

1. The What and Why of Problem-Based Learning

2. PBL and the K-1 Classroom

3. PBL and the 2-3 Classroom

4. PBL and the 4-6 Classroom

5. PBL and the 7-8 Classroom

6. Putting PBL to Work and to the Test

Appendix A: PBL Facilitator Do's and Don'ts: Suggestions for Prompting and Guiding Students

Appendix B: Additional PBL Problem Examples by Grade Level

Appendix C: Completed PBL Process Chart, Single Chart

Appendix D: Completed PBL Process Chart, Multiple Charts

Appendix E: Bibliographic Information for Referenced PBL Problem Resources

References

Suggested Readings

Index

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