PASS Activities
This activity involves participants explaining a concept to the group without using the concept itself. The group then tries to guess the concept.
What is Articulate?
This skill involves altering the original course of a question or an inquiry. Instead of directly answering, the PASS Leader points to an alternate means of accessing the information.
What is redirection?
Often described as 'thinking about thinking' this concept emphasises reflection on the processes and strategies behind learning.
What is metacognition?
This activity involves students teaching concepts to their peers, reinforcing their own understanding.
What is peer teaching?
The intentional design and sequencing of learning activities to support students' progression from their current level of understanding to the desired learning outcomes.
What is scaffolding?
This theory suggests that learning occurs through social interaction and collaboration.
What is Social Constructivism?
This common PASS activity involves students brainstorming in pairs before sharing their response with the whole group.
What is think-pair-share?
An educational framework that aims to optimise teaching and learning for all individuals by providing flexible approaches to how information is presented, how learners demonstrate their knowledge, and how students are engaged in the learning process. It is based on scientific insights into how humans learn and seeks to remove barriers to learning.
What is Universal Design for Learning (UDL)?
This concept, developed by Lev Vygotsky, refers to the difference between what a learner can do without help and what they can do with guidance.
What is the Zone of Proximal Development?
This activity involves groups becoming experts on an area of a topic before presenting back to the whole group.
What is divide and conquer?
A key principle in cooperative and collaborative learning environments. It refers to the perception that one is linked with others in a way that one cannot succeed without the contributions of each group member. In this sense, activities are not possible to complete independently.
What is positive interdependence?
This theory posits that observation of others’ behaviours and their associated consequences plays a fundamental role in cognition.
What is social learning theory?
This activity involves each group collaborating to become experts on a topic. The groups are then split and new groups are formed with one individual from each original group. Each individual in this new group is then responsible for explaining their area of expertise.
What is a jigsaw?
A continuum of skills ranging from least to most difficult. The base level skill is 'remember' and the hardest skill is 'create'.
What is Bloom's taxonomy?
This cognitive theory, developed by Jean Piaget, describes how learners construct mental models of the world through assimilation and accommodation.
What is constructivism?