The Problem solving approach

The problem solving approach is a great idea! Obviously it's nothing new, generations upon generations have learned through solving problems long before my time. To use it in the classroom is a phenomenal teaching method.

I am excited when I think about students learning through this approach. This approach takes the fundamentals of what you're teaching and applies it directly to the real world. Which we know is a principle of teaching an learning.

As said in the Handbook reading Dewey referred to the problem-solving approach as reflective thinking. Which is a great concept for high school students especially. Students in high school are still forming connections in their brain and forming their idea of the world and what they believe. If these students are following the scientific method in the classroom, they're practicing reflective thinking. It sets them up for success in the real world. They realize that when they are making a decision they must think through the outcome of that decision and determine what they will do. They make the decision, and then reflect on the decision. This is something students will be doing for the rest of their lives and if in the agriculture classroom we're setting them up for this then we're doing one of the greatest services to the students that we can. We're creating reflective individuals of society. How many other professions can say that!?