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Before we start, please take this pretest. Which teaching strategy is ESSENTIAL for promoting active learning in large classes? Hands-on experimentation Peer collaboration Physical activity Real-world problem-solving Reflective writing Shorter in-class lectures. How to respond:.

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  1. Before we start, please take this pretest. Which teaching strategy is ESSENTIAL for promoting active learning in large classes? • Hands-on experimentation • Peer collaboration • Physical activity • Real-world problem-solving • Reflective writing • Shorter in-class lectures

  2. How to respond: If you have a smartphone, send a message to 37607. In the message window, type only the number that corresponds to your answer: • 425475 (Hands-on experimentation) • 424864 (Peer collaboration) • 425017 (Physical activity) • 396845 (Real-world problem-solving) • 425618 (Reflective writing) • 425425 (Shorter in-class lectures)

  3. Teaching Large Classes: Promoting Active Learning CETLA March 21, 2013

  4. Objectives • Define “active learning.” • Identify barriers to active learning in large classes. • Set the stage for active learning. • Try out recommended activities. • Identify helpful web resources. • Share best practices. Note: We will discuss how to design group activities and manage class discussions at future sessions.

  5. Please take notes. • Active Learning • Barriers • Setting the Stage • Activities and Resources • ___ • ___ • ___ • ___ • Colleagues’ Best Practices Note: Slides with links will be posted, but they will be incomplete.

  6. What is “active learning”? Let’s try Think-Pair-Share: • Write a one-sentence definition. • Then exchange definitions with your neighbor. • Discuss both definitions and try to agree on one, revising as needed. • Be prepared to share your joint definition with the class.

  7. One definition “Active learning” is a pedagogy that “provides opportunities for students to talk and listen, read, write, and reflect as they approach course content through …activities…which require students to apply what they are learning” (Meyers & Jones,1993).

  8. Why active learning? On “doing”… • Learners “discover and construct knowledge through activities.” • --Jean Piaget On “reflecting”… • All reflection involves, at some point, stopping external observations and reactions so that an idea may mature.” • --John Dewey

  9. What are some of the barriers to active learning in large classes? • There isn’t enough time. • There are too many distractions. • The lecture hall layout is not conducive.

  10. Is this you? Students retain 70% of information in the first 10 minutes of a 50-minute lecture, but only 20% in the last (McKeachie, 1986).

  11. How can we overcome these barriers?

  12. Believe it or not! Interrupting a lecture may help students remember the content better.

  13. Setting the Stage “You don’t want to cover a subject; you want to uncover it” –David Dawkins Change the Pace Flip the Classroom • Use learning objectives to cut fat out of your lecture. • Break up the remaining lecture into 5-20 minute mini-lectures. • Take activity breaks in between. • Post most or all of your lecture online. • Require students to study the lecture material before class. • Devote most or all of class time to activities that help students apply, analyze, synthesize, or evaluate what they learned from the lecture. http://www.cetla.howard.edu/teaching_strategies/flipping_the_classroom.html

  14. What kinds of activities can work with large classes?

  15. Activities • Think-Pair-Share • Empty Outline • Games • Peer Instruction • Minute Paper • Case Study • Hands-on Research • Simulations/Role-play

  16. Let’s play Jeopardy! Parade of Games in PowerPoint http://facstaff.uww.edu/jonesd/games/index.html Category 1 Category 2 Category 3 Category 4 Category 5 10 10 10 10 10 20 20 20 20 20 30 30 30 30 30 40 40 40 40 40 50 50 50 50 50

  17. Peer InstructionNow try to reach a consensus with your neighbor about the answers to the pretest. Which teaching strategy is ESSENTIAL for promoting active learning in large classes? • Hands-on experimentation • Peer collaboration • Physical activity • Real-world problem-solving • Reflective writing • Shorter in-class lectures

  18. Now please vote again. If you have a smartphone, send a message to 37607. In the message window, type only the number that corresponds to your answer: • 425475 (Hands-on experimentation) • 424864 (Peer collaboration) • 425017 (Physical activity) • 396845 (Real-world problem-solving) • 425618 (Reflective writing) • 425425 (Shorter in-class lectures)

  19. Now it’s time to share.Who has tried other active learning strategies such ashands-on research,case studies,minute papers,orsimulations?

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