The class time is now devoted to problem solving, discussion and responding to student questions.
The course used a number of educational strategies, as defined in the Kern model, to deliver the content of the curriculum including lectures, problem solving, discussion, group learning, demonstration of real life experiences, digital learning aids, prescribed reading and standardized patient experiences.
During the morning workshop, students revisited their country's history and – using role play, storytelling, problem solving and discussions – learned how to develop empathy and good leadership skills, think critically, and form their own opinions.
Through the use of such constructivist strategies as problem solving, group discussions, and critical friends, PSTs understood and valued the process of instructional alignment as they moved from feelings of fear and apprehension to being confident in their own development.
The research from the physics community stresses the importance for students to be engaged in problem solving, modeling, discussions, and other modes of involving students in their own learning.
It was refreshing to have focused public-private problem-solving discussions.
The clinician was instructed to actively engage with each participant in treatment including goal setting, problem solving, and discussion of strategies for overcoming hurdles to progress.
Students would watch the M.I.T. lectures and do the exercises at home, and then come to class, where the first 15 minutes were reserved for questions and answers with the San Jose State professor, and the last 45 were devoted to problem solving and discussion.
We argue that the conceptualization of informed patients making autonomous choices acts as "misdirection" which deflects problem solving and discussion away from a productive examination of the differences between healthcare system offerings and client needs.
Minimizing the lecture component of the course, and focusing instead on active learning activities such as problem solving and discussion, achieved the desired goals of transforming student behavior from passive note taking to active thinking and facilitated evolutionary thinking to biological questions.
