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Interactive Lectures
Small Group Learning
Self-Assessment & Reflection
Experiential Learning
100
Some effective strategies are telling students that their grades will reflect their level of participation, tying active-learning to their educational or career goals, and asking students to recall how they developed expertise in hobbies, sports, or the arts.
How can you overcome student resistance to active learning?
100
This is a period of silence between the time a teacher asks a question and a student responds.
What is Wait Time?
100
Using this pedagogy, a teacher guides a small group toward the resolution of a real-world scenario.
What is Case-Based Teaching?
100
This active-learning exercise typically requires students to identify, in writing, the main point of the lecture.
What is a Minute Paper?
100
To be successful, this pedagogical approach requires that students know enough about a topic to formulate a meaningful research question.
What is Inquiry-based Learning?
200
The solutions to this problem range from graded quizzes and assignments before or at the start of class, peer evaluations of teammates, and prizes or certificates to strategies that whet students’ curiosity, relate active learning to career success, or appeal to students' competitive spirit.
How can you motivate students to come prepared for class?
200
Open-ended questions are more likely to generate higher-order thinking and discussion between partners during this three-step activity.
What is Think-Pair-Share?
200
This pedagogy motivates small groups of students to find and apply knowledge to address a real-world issue, usually with the help of a roving facilitator.
What is Problem-Based Learning?
200
The need to “think about thinking” explains why this documentation tool can deepen learning.
What is a Portfolio?
200
For this activity, students need a mobile device to find scattered clues that test their existing knowledge of a topic or require further research.
What is a QR Code Treasure Hunt?
300
Holding students responsible for watching microlectures and other materials online can help you achieve this goal if your active learning lessons take up a lot of classroom time.
How can you still cover the content of the course if you incorporate active learning?
300
An example of this ancient practice is “What assumptions are you making if you state that earthquakes are likely to occur in San Francisco in the future, and is that assumption reasonable?”
What is Socratic Questioning?
300
Two of the four critical components of this pedagogy are Readiness Assurance and Peer Evaluation.
What is Team-Based Learning?
300
This is a low-stakes opportunity for students to find out what they don’t know and to review the material until they know it.
What is a Mastery Quiz?
300
This pedagogy allows students to develop professional skills in high-stakes or uncommon situations, without placing others at risk.
What is a Clinical Simulation?
400
Calling “numbered heads,” pairing students, assigning roles, testing individuals, assigning sections to individuals, assigning postings on Blackboard’s group pages, and requiring peer evaluations of teammates are some of the ways a teacher can do this.
How can you hold group members individually accountable for doing their share of the work?
400
Whether it takes place on the Web or a cellular network, this active-learning strategy engages students in the classroom, measures their level of understanding during a lecture, and provides prompt feedback.
What is Polling (“clickers”)?
400
In order to set up this sort of group, the teacher must first divide a problem into sections, one section for each member of the group.
What is a Jigsaw group?
400
Whether paper or electronic, this tool can help students pay attention, make sense of experiences, think critically, talk thoughtfully, monitor their learning, and collect ideas for a formal paper.
What is Journaling?
400
One of the AAC&U’s “High Impact Practices,” this community-oriented pedagogy encourages students to apply what they are learning inside the classroom when they are outside the classroom and to reflect upon what they are learning outside the classroom when they are inside the classroom.
What is Service-Learning?
500
Some of the most useful tools for doing this are rubrics, polls (e.g., “clickers”), online quizzes, and peer evaluations of teammates as well as reflective writing in blogs, journals, and portfolios.
How can you assess active learning?
500
This pedagogy often follows polling or a ConcepTest when Just in Time Teaching is needed.
What is Peer Instruction?
500
In this pedagogy, upon seeing the other groups’ proposed solutions, the third group practices synthesis and evaluation, the highest levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy.
What is Send-a-Problem?
500
This CAT focuses the student on the relative importance of ideas and their relationships in a visual way.
What is a Concept Map?
500
Google Earth is one of the primary providers of this type of experience.
What is a Virtual Tour?
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