K-20 Education Problem Based Learning

Join the Problem Based Learning Community!

• Share your ideas, hear from educators, and learn how to engage your students in authentic learning tasks relevant to the "real world."
• Receive updates on the latest research, action and "Best Practice" implementation of PBL in classrooms nationally and internationally.

Problem Based Learning - Creating a Driving Question

Problem Based Learning enables you to:

• create authentic community based learning opportunities for your students.
• integrate collaborative technology.
• impact student learning and dialogue with powerful learning experiences.
• connect your students to community stakeholders and collaborative partners in the classroom, opening endless classroom opportunities.

Choose from these engaging Problem Based Learning training modules!

• Utilizing Technology to Create Problem Based Instruction
• Building Collaborative Community around Authentic Issues
• Developing Inquiry Skills and Research Savvy Students with Technology
• Assessment: Assessing Student Work in a Collaborative Classroom
• Presenting and Sharing Results

Research on Problem Based Learning confirms that students improve skills in:

• problem solving.
• critical thinking.
• research.
• presentation.
• moving vision to action.

View research highlights and in-depth research in the CILC Networking Center.

View Problem Based Learning Student Results
Creating new harmony in a community through restoration, preservation, and utilization
Start with an old gymnasium in disrepair. Mix in committed students seeking a meaningful project where they can apply problem-based learning strategies. Soon you have the "New Harmony Ribeyre Gymnasium Restoration Project"—a showcase CILC Vista community partnership featuring middle and high school students joining with community members for a cause: "to enhance the quality of life in this community through the redevelopment of this historic structure."

Finding community solutions to Indiana’s water pollution
The study of fertilizer and animal waste runoff from farm or livestock operations may not typically excite students. But when students understand the challenges this and other non-point source water pollution pose to our communities—and have the opportunity to connect with students in other districts and community experts to learn about environmental science—excitement is keen.

Contact Monica Cougan at 317-231-6526.