Go-To Strategies
This strategy with three words in its name forms the basis of a lot of collaborative learning.
What is Think-Pair-Share?
This dimension of engagement was the focus of the Active Learning Academy.
What is classroom engagement?
It would seem very out of touch for this to not be one of ELI's core lenses.
What is engagement?
This type of strategy, such as the 4A's, helps students to create meaning from texts. For example, the 4A's guides students to break down the ideas the author and the reader both bring to a text.
What is Reading for Understanding?
This person served as the first Lead Faculty Facilitator for ELI as it transitioned from its prototype program, the Active Learning Academy.
Who is Jennifer Heth?
Whether face-to-face or online, you can always use this scaffolding strategy to let students cover the walls with their knowledge.
What is Marker Talk?
Teaching students to use industry-standard technology is a best practice of this dimension of engagement.
What is technological and experiential engagement?
This core lens of ELI begins with the idea that everyone's brains activate the same networks in order to learn.
What is Universal Design for Learning?
Guided notes, which fall into this category of strategy, help students identify important information in a lecture or video while instructing them in notetaking.
What is Active Listening and Lecturing?
The ELI curriculum attempts to balance discussion of in-class activities with online asynchronous activities in response to this event.
What is the push to online classes during the Covid-19 pandemic?
When students say they don't know anything about a topic, this writing-based strategy can help to draw out what they know and what they need to learn.
What is a KWIK Chart?
This dimension of engagement seeks to make students more aware of the issues facing their communities.
What is civic and social engagement?
This core lens is based in the idea that we are all affected by the multiple aspects of our identities.
What is Culturally Responsive Pedagogy?
Students create concept maps to brainstorm ideas, get them down on paper, and organize them into connected networks of information, utilizing this category of strategy.
What is Writing (and Drawing) to Learn?
This term, coined by Toni, affectionately refers to the original participants of the Active Learning Academy who remain connected to ELI and ILF.
What is OG ALA?
Whether listening to a lecture or annotating a reading, students can benefit from learning this very visual form of notetaking.
What are Sketch Notes?
Problem-based learning particularly emphasizes the use of this dimension of engagement.
What is technological and experiential engagement?
The core lenses of Universal Design for Learning and Culturally Responsive Pedagogy belong under this broader category of course design.
What is inclusive design?
Intentionally fostering positive interdependence and individual accountability is a best practice for this category of strategy.
What is Dynamic Interaction and Collaboration?
This person is the only one to have coordinated the observational rounds process who has not held the title Lead Faculty Facilitator.
Who is Shelli Hull?
In this strategy, a handful of students become notetakers and discussion leaders for different topics around the room. When the instructor calls time, everyone gets a new topic to discuss.
What is the World Cafe?
The module on integrative communication focuses most of its content on this dimension of engagement.
What is multidisciplinary and contextual engagement?
With CRP, ELI specifically uses the word pedagogy rather than teaching to avoid confusion with this subject.
What is critical race theory?
Contextualizing links ideas in one discipline to other disciplines. Conceptualizing links ideas in one subject to those that form its foundation and those that come after it. Both are part of this category of strategy.
What is Integrative Communication?
This person is the first and only member of ELI so far to have filled all the roles in the program (participant, facilitator, lead faculty facilitator, and faculty program coordinator).
Who is Michelle York?