Date: January 7
Time: 1:00 – 2:00 p.m.
Location: Rodney Room, Perkins Student Center
Description: There is no single approved approach to PBL. Rather, teachers look at their classes, classrooms, and students, and they choose a given approach. Better yet, they experiment with a given approach and fine-tune their methods as they and their students become more successful. What are some ways that PBL has been approached in various classrooms? We will tap into the experience of our participants and facilitators to describe multiple models of PBL.
Deborah Allen
Deborah Allen, Biological Sciences
Deborah Allen is a professor of biological sciences at the University of Delaware (UD), and former program officer in the National Science Foundation’s Division of Undergraduate Education. In the mid-1990s, Allen joined a multidisciplinary team of educators to design, implement, and assess problem-based learning (PBL) curricula for introductory courses, including interdisciplinary ones for pre-service teachers. Allen is a founding member of the editorial board of CBE-Life Sciences Education and has authored feature articles for the journal since 2002. She is co-author/editor of several books on PBL and related instructional strategies, and is an advisor to a number of PBL-related federally funded projects. Allen is a recipient of UD’s Excellence in Teaching Award and of the American Society for Cell Biology’s 2013 Bruce Alberts Award for Excellence in Science Education, and has served as a Fulbright Senior Specialist in Péru to co-develop a PBL program for middle school environmental science.