15. How To Use Pair Problem Solving: Advice for Teachers, Parents, Tutors, and Helpers of all Sorts

This chapter is for teachers, parents, tutors, or anyone who would like to help students, relatives, friends, or themselves become competent problem solvers. It includes general guidelines for everyone and specific suggestions for each group.

Thinking Aloud Pair Problem Solving (TAPPS) is not just one of a host of strategies that may be learned and forgotten, rather, it is a way of thinking and learning that can be used whenever two or more people come together to solve a problem. TAPPS is a learning strategy, a negotiating strategy, a strategy for self-discovery and confidence building, a teaching strategy, a questioning and listening strategy, ...

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