Why Use Problem Solving in the Classroom

When there is a cause, it is always followed by an effect right? Everything that is put in front of us has happened for a reason. So ask yourself why? how? who? As a teacher it is beneficial to the students to add in problem based learning into the classroom because this is a real world skill that is utilized in many careers. 

Problem based learning is “teaching strategy that includes problem solving, inquiry learning, project-based teaching and case studies” (237, handbook). The problem solving approach remind me of learning by "doing". So why cant this also related to an individualized teaching technique/a way a student learns because some students will learn better by physically doing it. 

This idea of problem based learning is not just am idea that schools want the students to learn but employers want their workers to be able to have problem solving skills to go with their higher order thinking that is needed in the work force. 

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