Problem Based Learning: Reflecting on Practice

PROBLEM BASED LEARNING (PBL)

Reflecting on Practice

PBL Skills

PBL will provide you with the opportunity to develop the following skills:

• Problem solving • Thinking • Time management • Information retrieval and evaluation • Communication • Computing

4 Basic Stages to PBL

1. Understand the problem

2. Learning3. Solving the problem4. Reflection

1. Understand the problem

1. What is the problem?

2. What do I know about it?

3. What solutions are possible?

4. How do I evaluate the solution?

2. Learning

1. What information or data did I need?

2. Where did I find this information?

3. How do I know that the information or data I collected was reliable?

4. How did I manage the learning process?

3. Solving the problem1. How did I turn data

into information relevant to the problem?

2. What format is the solution required in?

3. Who will review and critique the result?

4. How will I evaluate it?

4. Reflection1. How and what did I

learn?2. What worked and

what didn’t?3. How did I feel

during the process?4. What can I do better

next time?5. Did I reach my goals,

why or why not?