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Problem-Based Learning Reflection

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1. My teaching experience with Republic Polytechnic – Centre of Innovation & Enterprise: ODOP – PBL teaching approach

I used to be an Academic Associate with the CIE - Republic Polytechnic some 6 years ago. The teaching activity I would be discussing is RP’s “one-day, one problem” - problem-based learning (PBL).

The teaching activity would involve 3 meeting sessions spread within the day and the class consists of not more than 25 students which are required to work in teams of usually not more than 5. The teams would focus on how to respond to an assigned “problem” for the day.

(RP, 2015)

I would start the lesson by presenting to the class a problem statement in the first meeting and the students would discuss the problem statement within their assigned teams usually with a …show more content…

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