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We have been working closely with one of our employers Anglian Water (Water Safe); we had had a Presentations and demonstration from the employer and the launch of their competition.

Our Problem that the leaners  had to solve, was the contamination of water supply’s within your homes.

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Anglian Water gave the learners a introduction into the problem, staff then briefed the students on the processes and stages of Problem Based Learning.

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The groups were split into teams of 4 to 5 students each asked to come up with a team name.

It was quickly noticed that indivduals worked well together however all students soon found their own identity in the groups

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Over the series of sessions it was identified that students worked well together and allocated different roles to enable the process to run smoothly

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Over a three week period staff conducted 5 themed sessions , that allowed the students to develop their independant learning skills.

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for every session students completed a survey reflecting on what individual students had done during each session.

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Teaching staff were apprehensive at first in changing the way they delivered their teaching methods.However within the first few sessions it was noted that students were becoming more engaged and enjoying the learning experience.Staff felt that this style of teaching would suit level 2&3 learners more however with this current Level 1 group the staff felt it was still successful and we will now be using PBL more .

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The end product .

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At the end of the project students filled in a feedback and evaluation form reflecting on their experience of problem based learning .It was clear from the evaluation that all students had enjoyed the PBL sessions and all gained confidence from this method of learning.

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Students end of task student feedback sheets

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During our staff development training week in July we delivered a training session on PBL to a variety of curriculum teams.We highlighted some good discussions points that we raised at our OTLA sessions.During
November 2017 a number of internal observations were carried out by our SLT team it has been noted that PBL is becoming more recognised as another method of classroom delivery . We have also just undergone a curriculum area review which also highlighted the engagement of learners through PBL.This is now an upward trend in delivery here at New College Stamford .