AN
INTRODUCTION TO PBL LEARNING
Before
watching this Edutopia video, I had a pretty good idea about what PBL is, I’d
heard about it, then I learned about what it is and why it is supposed to be
the right choice for today’s classrooms during different courses, also in the
school where I work we started a math program designed following that model, it
is working very well, students seem to be more engaged although I haven’t found
significant improvement in grades, attitude has certainly taken a turn for the
better.
After watching
the video what caught my attention and kept me thinking about it, is how PBL
completely changes the outlook for students regarding reasons for learning. As
teacher we are often faced with the question: What are we ever going to use
that for? Or why do we have to know that? With PBL students are first exposed
to a situation in which knowledge of a particular subject is needed, in order
to solve the situation.. That takes a huge weight of the teachers shoulders
because you don’t have to prove to them that they need to know something, or
force them to learn it, they will actually acknowledge the need to learn it in
order to solve a problem.When you present a student with a situation, like in
this case a problem that can be solved using a mathematical problem, they
immediately start looking for ways to solve it, they bring back former
knowledge, they work in teams, they investigate, inquire and luckily, with a
little help they will at the end have acquired concepts without thinking that
they were forced into them.
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