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PROBLEM BASED LEARNING PROCEDURES

STAGE    
ROLE OF TEACHER
ROLE OF STUDENT
Stage One
Clarity topic
What do we know?
  • Facilitator
  • Guide
  • Colearner with students
  • Problem solver
  • Colearner (discussing and sharing ideas
Stage Two
Identify problems(s)
What needs to be known?
  • Guide (to define problems)
  • Resource (to suggest data sources)
  • planning Assistant (with student)
  • Manager (assist with student groups and work
  • Planner
  • Decision maker
  • Problem solver
Stage Three
Plan inquiry
What is going to be done?
  • Resource (suggest materials)
  • Model (GIS, problem solving; research skills)
  • Guide (check student work plans; suggest  stragegies)
  • Facilitator (coordinate resource use, student interaction, monitor progress
  • Producer
  • Problem solver
  • Planner
  • Teacher (helping other students with GIS

Stage Four
Investigate and report
What has been learned?

  • Model (GIS; problem solving; research skills
  • Guide (manage presentations
  • Facilitator (check student findings)
  • Producer
  • Teacher (sharing findings, teaching classmates
  • Helping other students with technology
from Sarah Witham Bednarz
Connecting GIS and Problem Based Learning

in GIS in Schools (2000), Redlands, CA: ESRI