Meeting Schedule

International Honor Society in Education

Purdue University ETA Chapter

Presentation on Problem-based learning

Speakers

Tami Haas

Michelle Van Horn

Tuttle Middle School

Crawfordsville School Corporation

Agenda

How have we used PBL in our classrooms?

How do we go about developing PBL units?

We make a conscious effort to identify standards that need to be addressed

Can you give an example of the standards that you have addressed in context?

Rainforest unit - Why should I care about TRF deforestation?

This was originally based on a science standard. We also incorporated language arts, social studies and math standards.

Community PBL - What can we students do to improve Crawfordsville for the benefit of everyone?

We purely went from language arts standards, although we probably also hit some social studies standards

Museum PBL - How would you design your own exhibit?

We made a conscious effort to incorporate math standards and involved the math teachers

What benefits did we perceive that our students enjoyed?

Other PBL resources

Quote of the week

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be ignited.

--Plutarch

You can't direct the wind but you can adjust the sails.

--Anonymous

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence
stops.

--Henry Adams

Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right
answers.

--Josef Albers

Submitted by: Ashley Williams