problem-based learning

A guide to holistic education covering personalized learning, process-oriented learning, mindful assessment, and more.

"Lang makes the case for a new way of thinking about how to teach young minds based on the emerging neuroscience of attention. Lang takes readers on a sprawling tour of how some of America's best teachers are improving student performance using concepts such as modular classrooms, flow states, and student-directed learning. Together, these insights offer a new way of thinking about how to not only more effectively teach a lesson plan, but to teach students the most important lesson of all: how to learn"--Provided by publisher.

Introduces the problem-based approach to teaching and learning in which students are presented with an ill-structured problem and instructed to work in small groups to arrive at a solution, discusses the benefits of the method in middle and high school classrooms, and offers guidelines for implementation.

Presents several lessons and activities for each of the ten NCTM standards and strategies, provides strategies for making connections between mathematical concepts, and incorporates TI-73 Explorer and TI-83/84 Plus graphing calculator applications and programs.

A teachers guide to working with teenagers who have lost motivation to learn.

A program for fourth through eighth graders, which presents twelve multidisciplinary engineering challenges for student teams to solve in competition and provides introductory teamwork exercises, ten warm-up problems, scoring rubrics, tips for teachers and coaches, and a competition administration checklist.