Problem-based Learning

Learning Styles:

• Guide to Learning Styles
• What is your learning style
• Learning Styles resources

Multiple Intelligences:

• What are multiple intelligences?
• More Background
• Self assessment: assessing the balance of your intelligences
• Managing the multiple intelligence classroom
• How technology supports and accomodates the multiple intelligence classroom

Seven ways to approach curriculum by Thomas Armstrong

Problem Based Learning:

• Overview
• What is problem based learning
• PBL info
• PBL Publications
  • How to Use Problem-Based Learning in the Classroom by Robert Delisle ~ www.ascd.org/publications/books/1997delisle/1997delisletoc.html
• The tutor's(teacher's) role in problem based learning.
• Problem Design and Dialogue
• Students actively define problems and construct potential solutions
• Learner-centered classrooms
• Using PBL in large classrooms
• Shortcut for creating PBL activities
  

There is no simple, fixed, formulaic, "right" solutions in PBL

• Advantages
• Barriers
  

Redesign lesson plans to support learning styles and multiple intelligences

• Sample PBL Problems
• Articles

Scaffolding for Success

Authentic Assessment:

• An administrator's eye view of authentic assessment
• PBL and Assessment

Software Choices:

• Tom Snyder's Decisions Decisions series
• Technology and Multiple Intelligences

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