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 Today’s Programme
Problem-based Learning Workshop

Why PBL?
What is PBL?
What are the stages of PBL?
Let’s experience PBL
 Team-member Roles
Problem-based Learning Workshop

Keeps group on task; ensures group follow

Leader
instructions of the assigned task within time limit

Recorder Writes down group discussions, decisions & answers

Obtains and returns supplies & makes sure team

Manager
cleans up

Presenter Reports and presents groups’ decisions & answers

Team Roles for Activity 1
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Recorder

Leader*

Presenter

Manager
 W H Y
P R O B L E M -
B A S E D
L E A R N I N G ?
 Problem-based Learning Workshop

Share your findings with us

10 minutes  butcher papers  Big letters

Attributes for Success in the future
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Problem-based
by Irene, MTT,
Learning
Cluster
Workshop
West 6

Flexible / adaptable Open-minded

IT savvy Thrifty

Resourceful & has good Adapt to more than one

general knowledge language / culture

Risk calculating & taking Persevering

Resilient / ability to Team player / Able to work

recover from failure well in teams

Daring / Bold Energetic

Enterprising / Innovative Foresight

The reasons for Problem-based Learning

Key Skills & Attributes from PBL
Problem-based Learning Workshop

Critical and reflective skills

Communication skills
Information handling
Problem solving skills
Collaborative skills
Metacognition
Stepien (1993)

Reasons for Problem-based Learning

 The PBL Classroom
Problem-based Learning Workshop

Learner Hands-on

Learner
Learner Learner Teacher

Learner Teacher Learner Digital Learner Digital

Resources Devices

Learner Learner
Industrial Experts
Establishments Mentors
Learner Mobile
Devices

Teacher-centered Student-centered

Reasons for Problem-based Learning

 The PBL Classroom
Problem-based Learning Workshop

Students should be given problems—at levels

appropriate to their maturity—that require them to
decide what evidence is relevant and to offer their
own interpretations of what the evidence means.
…, on careful observation and thoughtful analysis.
Students need guidance, encouragement, and
practice in collecting, sorting, and analyzing
evidence, and in building arguments based on it.
However, if such activities are not to be
destructively boring, they must lead to some
intellectually satisfying payoff that students care
about.
(AAAS, 1989, p. 148).
Reasons for Problem-based Learning
 3 Domains of Science
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A set of methods and A body of

A way of knowing
processes knowledge
•Observing •Facts •Scientific knowledge is
•Measuring •Definitions based upon evidence
•Inferring •Concepts •Scientific knowledge can
•Predicting •Theories changed over time
•Classifying •Laws •Creativity plays an
important role in science
•Hypothesizing
•Background knowledge
•Experimenting
influences how scientists
•Concluding view data
Bell, R., (2009) Teaching the nature of science. Best Practices in Science Education.

Reasons for Problem-based Learning

 W H A T I S
P R O B L E M -
B A S E D
L E A R N I N G ?
Team Roles for Activity 2
Problem-based Learning Workshop

Presenter

Manager

Recorder

Leader*
 Activity
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At your table, number off 1, 2, 3 or 4.

Look for the slides that are labelled 1, 2, 3 and 4.
Read the one that you have been “numbered”.
Look for three other participants in this room who
have the same number… form a group and share
what you have read.
Which part of the definition do you agree with?
Why do you agree with that?
What is one question you might have with
regard to this definition?
We have 15 minutes for this.
Return to your seat when you are done.
Share what you have learnt from your friends with
members at your table.
1 What is PBL?
Problem-based Learning Workshop

PBL is an education process that

requires the learner to go through
some activities during the learning
that are valued in the real world…
the intent is to challenge the learner
with problems found in practice both
as a stimulus for learning and a focus
for organising what has been learnt
Barrows (1986)

Understanding Problem-based Learning

2 What is PBL?
Problem-based Learning Workshop

An educational approach that

organizes curriculum and instruction
around carefully crafted “problematic
situations” adapted from real-world
issues.
Learners gather and apply knowledge
from multiple disciplines in their quest
for solutions.
Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy (IMSA, 2001)

Understanding Problem-based Learning

3 What is PBL?
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It is one method of learning, in which

a problem is presented to the students
and they will solve the problem with
whatever knowledge they acquire
along the way.
Through this, they learn not just the
content, but also process skills and
problem solving skills that they can
apply in real life.
(Tan, O.S., 2003)

Understanding Problem-based Learning

4 What is PBL?
Problem-based Learning Workshop

PBL is a learner-centered learning

process in which the learning
environment embodies most of the
principles that improve learning as
well as providing a context for
learning which leads to greater levels
of learner engagement.

Woods (1995)

Understanding Problem-based Learning

 What PBL is NOT
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an end-of-week project
an end-of-term project
end-of-unit project
holiday homework
“outside curriculum”
“pull-out programme”
after-school programme
extra curriculum activity
B R E A K
 H O W D O E S
P B L L O O K
L I K E I N
C L A S S ?
 Stages of PBL
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Meeting the problem

Self-directed learning

Problem analysis & learning issues

Discovery & Reporting

Solution presentation & reflection

Overview, integration & evaluation

 HELP ME!
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I was CAUGHT at custom!

Because I was carrying this.

 HELP ME!
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Can you help me by either

through a demonstration
using a lab report
through a deck of slides
using poster with explanation
using an animation or video
explain to the custom officers that I was not
carrying anything illegal? For investigation,
they need to know
what this is… what is the use of it…,
how come it has this colour and shape, and
any other useful info that may help.
Team Roles for Activity 3
Problem-based Learning Workshop

Leader*

Presenter

Manager

Recorder
Problem Analysis & Learning Issues
Problem-based Learning Workshop

we Know our Ideas we Need to know our to Do list

Who are you What is the What are the What are the
& what’s your main things that you steps that you
role? topic/issue need to find out are going to
What is the we are in order to solve take to help
problem? dealing with the “problem”? you solve the
here? “problem”?
What does
the resident
want?
Other
concerns
Problem Analysis & Learning Issues
Problem-based Learning Workshop

Please use the butcher papers to record

your discussion using the KIND Template
(you may like to draw the table onto your
butcher paper)
We will have 15 min
Be prepared to present your discussion to
your “neighbours”
Team Roles for Activity 4
Problem-based Learning Workshop

Manager

Recorder

Leader*

Presenter
 Discovery & Reporting
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Please study the material seized by the

custom officers
All groups will be given 4 pieces
Go ahead and discuss
Access the internet if need be
We will have 30 min
Be prepared to present
Solution presentation & reflection
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Now that you have studied, researched, and

discussed…
Prepare your group “product” (demo, report,
slides, poster, video)
Also, reflect on the process of how you
arrive at your conclusion
We will have 30 min
Be prepared to present tomorrow morning
 So, what was this?!
Problem-based Learning Workshop

Bedak Sejuk

Fermented rice powder. Face mask.

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