• Overview
• Professional Development
• Curriculum Units
  • Can We Believe This?
  • Fighting Chance
  • On the Campaign Trail
  • The Better Budget
  • LegiQuest
  • A Government for Xlandia
  • Not in My Back Yard
• Unit Resources
  • Fighting Chance
  • On the Campaign Trail
  • The Better Budget
  • LegiQuest
  • A Government for Xlandia
  • Not in My Back Yard

Professional Development

For Problem Based Government, BIE offers 2 types of training:

• Workshops at BIE: training workshops at our headquarters in Marin County, California.
  
  
• Customized Workshops: training workshops at schools or district sites for ten or more teachers.

Please contact John Larmer (415.883.0122 x306) if you are interested in more information.

Teachers who attend our Problem Based Government workshops receive a Problem Based Government Teacher's Manual & Binder. This Manual includes:

• A Problem Based Government Overview booklet.

• The "Can We Believe This?" one-period activity to introduce students to problem based learning

• Six curriculum units. Each unit comes with step-by-step guidelines for teachers, student handout masters, assessment rubrics and content background material.