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?