Problem Based Learning - Sakai Link

There are many different types of learning styles, and these styles work differently for the students that are in classrooms. When it comes to problem based learning, the students are more in tune with what is being presented to them. Instead of looking to memorize facts about a subject, problem based learning provides students with the skills to make meaningful answers and discussions about a subject. Students also learn more social and developmental skills because they are thinking in a newer way that provides them more opportunities to talk and discuss a situation. Generally speaking, teachers divide the students up into groups of four or five and have them work on an assignment together. By working with other students, the students are able to collaborate and develop new ideas about how to work with a problem that is presented to them. When a teacher is teaching the class with problem based learning, the teacher should have the students help him/her create the problems that will be on the exam/test. This way the students know what they need to work on and what they need to work harder on. Problem based learning also provides students the opportunity to think outside of the box and come up with many different ways to answer any given question. This type of learning never leaves a student, but teachers don't use it in their classrooms at all times.

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