Active Teaching For Active Learning: DR M.S.V.K.V.Prasad Associate Professor Department of Civil Engineering
Active Teaching For Active Learning: DR M.S.V.K.V.Prasad Associate Professor Department of Civil Engineering
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Dr M.S.V.K.V.PRASAD
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING
Get students engaged in
learning -
Thinking, talking, moving, or
emotionally involved so that
what you teach gets into long-
term memory.
In other words, students will go
from this
To this.
What is active learning?
We might think of active learning as an
approach to instruction in which
students engage the material they
study through reading, writing, talking,
listening, and reflecting.
Active learning
Analysis of the research literature . . .
suggests that students must do more than
just listen:
They must read, write, discuss, or be
engaged in solving problems.
Most important, to be actively involved,
students must engage in such higher-
order thinking tasks as analysis, synthesis,
and evaluation.
Basic Elements of Active Learning
Active learning strategies use one or more
of these elements:
Talking and listening
Writing
Reading
Reflecting
Categories of Active Learning
Strategies
Individual activities
Paired activities
Informal small groups
Cooperative student projects
Active lecturing
Parts of a lecture
–Beginning
–Middle
–End
Beginning of the lecture
Gain students’ attention, motivate them to
learn
Use activity, question, picture, music, or
video clip to draw them into the topic
Tell them what they will learn – objectives
Access students’ prior knowledge
– Use activities that allow students to relate
what they already know to the concept to be
studied.
Sometimes a blank slide is a good
strategy—it gets students’ attention , gives
them a chance to catch their breath, and
forces the instructor to slow down.
Middle of the lecture
Pause every 10 or 12 minutes for
students to process the information
actively.
Research shows that students can’t
attend to lectures for longer than
about 12 or 15 minutes.
Middle, cont.
You either have your learners’ attention or
they can be making meaning, but not both
at the same time. Teachers who don’t
allow time for students to process
information do an enormous amount of
reteaching.
Use active learning strategies to prevent
students from wandering off.
Middle, cont.
Strategies may be used with any size class
in only a few minutes’ time, done alone or
in pairs. (Use a timer to keep to schedule.)
Build in the pause as you plan the lesson,
or build it into your PowerPoint
Adapt strategies that fit the particular
lesson. Many strategies are adaptable to
multiple uses.
End of the lecture – wrapping it up
Summarize information, provide closure,
and ask students to connect the
information to themselves, their own
values, and its application in the world
Ask students for the muddiest point of the
day (or something similar).
Review and closure activities
In the next video we will
see how the first two active
learning methods can be
implemented in the class
1.Think-Pair-Share
2.Minutepaper
Thank you all for watching