Center for Teaching & Learning

Active Learning Strategies help to initiate learners and instructors into effective ways to help everyone engage in activities based on ideas about how people learn. Multiple active learning strategies may be used in each of the active learning designs. Review an annotated list of active learning strategies 1. Sit & talk with peers nearby Think-Pair- Share. 1. 2. 3. Listen to their responses.Ask students to elaborate on their thinking by providing explanations, evidence, or clarifications. Quick write A prompt is posed for students to respond to in writing. Turn and Talk In a turn and talk, a question is posed to the class and students simply turn to the person next to them to discuss. Part of the challenge of communicating climate change with the public is that there is disparity between what scientists and the non-scientist public think and know about climate change.Why do you think there is such a disparity Polling Individual plus Group Quizzes Jigsaws Sorting strips Pausing in lecture 2.

https://teaching.berkeley.edu/active-learning-strategies

Related: Active Learning • ENGLISH METHODS FOR PME 1 • PEDAGOGIE

Active Learning & Pedagogy Annotated Bibliography - Part 1 Scholarship and Professional Development > Annotated Bibliographies Active Learning & Pedagogy Annotated Bibliography - Part 1 Adams, Dennis & Mary Hamm. (1994). New Designs for Teaching and Learning. Jossey-Bass Publishers: San Francisco. iPads in schools: a blessing or curse? At Ratoath College, a 1,000-pupil secondary school in Co Meath, hundreds of parents are locked into a bitter row with school management over its iPad-only policy for junior cycle students. On the one side of the divide is a large group of parents who say they are worried about too much screen time and fear the approach is harming their children’s education. On the other is the school, along with some less vocal parents, who say digital technology is crucial to preparing children for the modern world.

Think-Pair-Share Classroom Strategies Background Think-Pair-Share (TPS) is a collaborative learning strategy in which students work together to solve a problem or answer a question about an assigned reading. This technique requires students to (1) think individually about a topic or answer to a question; and (2) share ideas with classmates. Active Learning & Pedagogy Annotated Bibliography - Part 2 Teaching & Advising > Active Learning Active Learning & Pedagogy Annotated Bibliography - Part 2 Heffernan, Kerrissa (2001).

What do teachers need to know about Cognitive Load Theory? There’s an awful that’s been written and said about Cognitive Load Theory (CTL) in recent years and most of it is wholly unnecessary for teachers to know about. At it’s heart, the theory relies on a decades old model of human cognition, generally referred to as the Working Memory Model. It’s important to note that this model – like all models – is wrong. (The rule of thumb here is that if your brain was simple enough for you to understand, you’d be too simple to understand it.) This model is a useful simplification of the cognitive processes.

10 Fun Alternatives to Think-Pair-Share All learners need time to process new ideas and information. They especially need time to verbally make sense of and articulate their learning with a community of learners who are also engaged in the same experience and journey. In other words, kids need to talk!! Problem is, sometimes it’s hard to stay on subject without a little guidance. MIT Teaching and Learning Laboratory Watch Active Learning in Action at MIT Guideline: Actively engage students in the learning process. The data suggest that STEM instructors may begin to question the continued use of traditional lecturing in everyday practice, especially in light of recent work indicating that active learning confers disproportionate benefits for STEM students from disadvantaged backgrounds and for female students in male-dominated fields.

University of Hertfordshire Guiding and assessing student teachers These stories are about assessment (judgments around pass/fail); guiding student teachers’ teaching; providing learning opportunities for student teachers; and teaching student teachers. Teacher Educator Story 1 Thisstory is written by a school-based teacher educator about assessing a student teacher.