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Problem-Based Learning for Teachers, Grades 6-12
Daniel L. Kain, Associate Dean, Northern Arizona University

ISBN-10: 0205339204
ISBN-13: 9780205339204

Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Copyright: 2003
Format: Paper; 256 pp
Published: 01/14/2003
Status: Instock

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This text exposes future middle school and high school teachers to the Problem-Based Learning Model by walking them through authentic problem situations from inception through inquiry and reflection.

This text's approach provides the authentic elements of a problem situation and moves the students into inquiry. It is a text of questions and inquiry processes, not a text of answers. Asked to think like teachers, students are given real-life situations and documents that require problem solving. For example, to decide whether or not to adopt an anti-bullying policy, students read accounts of teachers, caregivers (a grandparent, in this case,) and official school records. Students study the issues linked to the problem to prepare formal presentations of solutions in appropriately authentic contexts.

The text begins with an explanation of and rationale for problem-based learning (PBL). Future educators are coached on how to succeed as PBL learners, which includes troubleshooting on the typical problems learners encounter when they first experience PBL.

Part Two of the text takes the occupational realities teachers face—solving IEP dilemmas, facing school censors, addressing standardized testing pressures, reorganizing schools into multiage classrooms, and more—and turns these into learning opportunities. After solving problems in collaborative teams, the students reflect on the issues raised. An annotated list of further resources follows the reflections.

Part Three of the text focuses on students' processing their experience and creating plans to teach using the PBL approach. Future teachers select and develop PBL activities for the children they will be teaching. They also learn procedures they need to be effective in this model.

Includes facsimilies of authentic documents from teachers' work that focus on real problems in the occupation. Future teachers encounter the kinds of reports, editorials, graphs, psychoeducational assessments and more that they normally would not see until they were actually practicing teachers.

Each chapter in Part Two ends with opportunities to reflect, discussion questions, and further readings.

Each Chapter includes “Introduction and Problem Background,” “Problem Context and Solution Parameters,” “Problem Documents,” “Solution Summary,” “Time for Reflection,” “Final Thoughts?,” “Further Reading,” and “References.”

I. PREPARING FOR THE PBL EXPERIENCE.

1. Why Problem-Based Learning for Future Teachers?

What Is PBL?

Brief History of PBL in Professional Education.

PBL and Learning to Teach.

A Word on Magic Pills.

The Plan for this Text.

2. Getting Ready for the Problem-Based Learning Experience.

Learning in New Ways.

Working with Your Colleagues—Now and Later.

How to Attack a Problem—a PBL Process.

II. PROBLEMS FROM TEACHERS' WORK.

3. What Should We Do About Andy?

4. Whose Discipline Problem Is This?

5. Change This Grade!

6. An Afrocentric Curriculum?

7. To Team or Not to Team?

8. Math Makes Tracks.

9. Raise Those Scores!

10. Service Learning Beats Doing Homework.

11. Constructivist Learning on Trial.

III. MOVING PBL TO YOUR CLASSROOM.

12. Reflecting on the Place of Problem-Based Learning.

The Transfer Issue.

How Do I Solve Problems?

Self-Directed Learners?

Working Together—Does it Work in Schools.

Issues as Vehicles for Learning.

Student or Teacher?

Looking Forward: What's the Place of PBL in My Classroom?

13. Using PBL in Your Classroom.

Selecting and Connecting Good Problems.

Presenting Problem Situation.

“Authentic” Documents and Artifacts.

Framing the Solution and Assessment.

Guiding the Process: Tutor or Teacher?

Too Much for Beginning Teachers?

Put it All Together.

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