This book focuses on large and small group educational settings and offers brief strategies to engage learners to assure active learning strategies are core to the learning environment. The book opens with an introduction on active learning principles. Each chapter follows with a specific description of a strategy written by authors who are experienced in using the strategy in a classroom environment with students. The chapters are designed to be accessible and practical for the reader to apply in their learning environments.
Among the questions this book addresses are:• How can instructors mitigate the apparent lack of a central focal point in the space?• What types of learning activities work well in the ALCs and take advantage of the affordances of the ...
Claire Howell Major is Professor of Higher Education at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. She teaches courses on college teaching, technology in higher education, reading research in the field of higher education, ...
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Complicating matters, all of the approaches listed may vary by discipline as well (Davidson & Major, 2014; Pascarella & Terenzini, 2005). Despite the nomenclature associated with these various group methodologies and strategies, ...
This collection of articles is appropriate for both the complete novice as well as the instructor who may have used active learning techniques before.
Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson. Heacox, D. (2002). Differentiating instruction in the regular classroom. How to reach and teach all learners, grades 3–12. Minneapolis, MN: Free Spirit. Hollas, B. (2007). Differentiating instruction in ...
The easy-to-implement activities and strategies in this book will help middle and high school foreign language teachers enhance their students' success.
This book: links the biggest ever research project on teaching strategies to practical classroom implementation champions both teacher and student perspectives and contains step by step guidance including lesson preparation, interpreting ...
Enhance your students’ success and improve the likelihood of retention with the easy-to-implement activities and strategies in this book!
At the heart of this book are five key principles from the science of learning that will help to ensure that that taught materials stick in students' minds: (1) deep processing, (2) chunking, (3) building associations, (4) dual coding, and ...