Coloring Outside the Lines?
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What's the problem? | Review Problem-Based Learning Steps

Define the Problem: Coloring Outside the Lines?

Meet the problem.

You have read the problem. Fill in a GRASPS worksheet in response to it. (Scribbling this with paper and pencil is fine. You will not turn this in.)

GRaSPS
Questions
Notes
Goal
 What is the GOAL of the assignment? What will you be learning as you work on it? You are "Paying attention to Place " in this problem. The learning goals for this skill are on the first resource page for it.
Role
 What is your ROLE in the problem? Who are you? What are you to do? You are a researcher here. You may imagine your role more specifically than that (which is fine), but the problem doesn't give you much more to go on.
Situation
 What is the SITUATION in which you find yourself? Describe as much as you know. You may make this up (see above), or you may just be a student in a seminary class, completing an assignment. You decide!
Product or Performance
 What is the PRODUCT of your work to be? You have all sorts of freedom in terms of a specific product. The problem, however, tells you what your product should do: it should make an argument; it should give evidence; it should build a case, the way a lawyer builds a case for a jury. Whatever form your product takes, make sure you have an idea about Jesus and boundary-crossing, and that you support your idea with evidence.
Standards
 What are the STANDARDS by which your work will be judged? Here is the rubric I use in my classes. As you meet the problem, try to relate these general standards to the specific Goal, Role, Situation and Product of this problem. By the way, when you do not work with others on the problem, the standards for collaboration will not be applied to your work.

What do you know? What do you need to know?

Make a list of what you know and what you need to know. There is much left to your research in this problem. You will need to know (if you do not already) a lot about places and Jesus' movement among them in the gospels.

State the problem.

Put the problem in your own words. What are you doing in this assignment?

Next: Go to "Address the Problem," coaching page 2.