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Problem-Based Learning Matters, Illinois Mathematics And Science Academy

Teacher Resources

Problem-based learning (PBL) is focused experiential learning organized around the investigation and resolution of messy, real-world problems.

• PBL engages students as stakeholders immersed in a messy, illstructured, problematic situation.
• PBL organizes curriculum around this holistic problem, enabling student learning in relevant and connected ways.
• PBL creates a learning environment in which teachers coach student thinking and guide student inquiry, facilitating learning toward deeper levels of understanding while entering the inquiry as a co-investigator.