What is the problem of classroom management? Maintaining order, addressing diverse needs, and fostering a positive learning environment.

Problem-based classrooms require teachers to dare to let go of control of the learning and to take hold of the role of questioner, coach, supporter, and diagnostician.

Cindy E. Hmelo, Problem-Based Learning: Effects on the Early Acquisition of Cognitive Skill in Medicine, The Journal of the Learning Sciences, Vol. 7, No. 2 (1998), pp. 173-208 ...

The potential differences in the effectiveness of problem-based learning (PBL) and traditional instructional approaches regarding high school students' attainment of economics concepts and principles ...

Real-World, Meaningful Problems This kind of scenario — linking the drama of mountaineering with work on percentages in middle school math — can effectively be used in a problem-based learning (PBL) ...

Two major studies demonstrate the effectiveness of problem-based learning and show that students, parents and teachers prefer such immersive learning techniques.

Transdisciplinary teaching and learning that leads students along a pathway to convergence has many different names that you may be familiar with already—phenomenon-based learning, problem-based ...

The impact of project-based learning and vibrant classroom environment Classrooms that are vibrant and flexible spaces allow students to engage in collaborative projects.

But in Finland, phenomenon-based learning is nonnegotiably interdisciplinary, something that can get left out of projects in the U.S. And it must be driven by students’ own questions about the world, ...

One of the best ways teachers can use neuroscience in the classroom is by helping students to understand what’s happening in the brain when learning takes place.