PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING (PBL): A LEARNING METHODOLOGY FOR INNOVATIVE EDUCATIONAL TEACHING

The teaching practice, still today, no different from what happened for a long time, is essentially the class model where the teacher transmits content with brief moment of discussion and activities which the student, after storing the information, has to answer. Some methodological strategies of differentiated education have been developed by teachers who believe they can make change in their teaching practices, aiming at a meaningful learning. The Problem-Based Learning (PBL) emerges as an innovative method of these strategies in which students work in order to address a real or simulated from a context problem. It is, therefore, a method of learning student-centered, which makes the role of passive recipient of knowledge and takes the place of the protagonist of their own learning through research. This article constitutes a review of basic literature on Problem-Based Learning. The aim is to present the PBL as a method of meaningful and effective learning, which can be used in different educational levels and in many different disciplines. Through a state of the art research on PBL, we seek to reflect on its importance as a learning method. The PBL has shown positive results observed by researchers from different areas, which they used it as a method of learning, whether in university courses either in basic education. Hopefully, with this article, make it possible to reflect on new learning strategies for an educational school.