Reinventing a Public High School with Problem-Based Learning

Sammamish High School is in the midst of a five-year process to change from traditional teaching to an entirely problem-based curriculum. Follow the journey of the teachers, administrators, and students as they transform their school.
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[@kbb6279]

This is true learning! Great. I wonder what happened to these young men and ladies since. And the teachers?

[@007MrYang]

Amazing and inspiring! The government should apply this to every school, and maybe every college.

[@ChaneldelarosaNel]

This makes me excited for my future career as a Mathematics teacher! Yeah!

[@bimladhanda7764]

This video was really helpful for teacher to learn some new teaching methods

[@MarshallTheArtist]

It's 5 years later. When can we expect an update?

[@brendaianandconnor]

I think I LOVE the idea of PBL....but....I am finding it really difficult to understand how it is different from how I teach now. With Guy Claxton et al I read, I hear, but I don't actually SEE what it is that is different. Could someone point me in the direction of a working example of: Here is English Lit (for example) taught traditionally, and here it is using PBL...do you guys understand what I'm getting at? or am I just being particularly dense ;) TIA Bee

[@mohamadashari]

i like this very much, thank you i will try to implement this in my classroom

[@Engycation]

Very nice video

[@jasonziegler4152]

Still looking for authentic PBL models for Mathematics. Anyone?

[@ChaneldelarosaNel]

did you find some nice resources and videos on this?

[@abukii]

#Actual -- LOVE WHAT YOURE DOING....yarrrrrrr :)

[@korswe]

How do you teach the students to tools to even know to frame a question to solving a problem? I don't think this works at this level. I have experienced problem-based learning in college. I'm skeptical that this works for high schools.