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Preparing the Environment for Active Learning: examples from the large enrollment classroom.

Preparing the Environment for Active Learning: examples from the large enrollment classroom. Katie Winsett, PhD Biology Department kewinsett@usi.edu.

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Preparing the Environment for Active Learning: examples from the large enrollment classroom.

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  1. Preparing the Environment for Active Learning: examples from the large enrollment classroom. Katie Winsett, PhD Biology Department kewinsett@usi.edu

  2. “An important part of our job as teachers is equipping as many of our students as possible with high-level problem-solving and thinking skills, including critical and creative thinking. If there is a broad agreement about anything in educational research, it’s that well-implemented learner-centered instruction is much more effective than traditional lecture-based instruction at promoting those skills.” Richard Felder, Chemical Engineering Education 45 (2011).

  3. Thoughts from experience and the literature • Upfront preparation • The syllabus • Blackboard • Detailed directions • Organized chaos • Introductions

  4. Thoughts from experience and the literature • Upfront preparation • Organized chaos • Given the right tools, students will talk about the content • Be very clear on how this works. • Consciously address the environment • Introductions

  5. Thoughts from experience and the literature • Upfront preparation • Organized chaos • Introductions • They don’t know each other • Consciously address this

  6. Final thoughts • There will be resistance. • Things will not go as planned. • Students will learn. • Be idealistic about it; the literature supports your effort. • Be prepared. • Remind yourself why you do it. • Reread student reflective assignments • John Hunter: The World Peace Game

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