Didactical Aspects of the Problem Based Teaching

The Problem- based teaching arouse 25 years ago at the universities in USA and Canada, and is soon wide spread and implemented at all the educational institutions around the world. During the problem based learning, the roles of the teacher and the student are changed. Students have higher responsibility for their learning, they are more motivated, and they build their feelings and attitudes according to their accomplishments. The educational institution is in a role of a supplier with materials, resources, teachers, mentors and evaluators who lead and follow the students during the problem based learning. In other words, the teacher is in a role of an assistant and mentor in the process of learning, and not as the only source of knowledge. From these reasons, the aim of this Master paper is to study the presence of the Problem- based teaching at the classes of English as a foreign language at the primary school. The first part of the paper is a theoretical approach to the problem and it defines the notion, the need and the application of the Problem-based teaching. The second part of the paper consists of the methodology of the research and the conclusion with our opinion and suggestions for the application of the Problem- based teaching in the Stip community