Tool Box

TESSERACT Educational Group

DRN Conference May 31The Essential Instructional Toolbox

Doug Mauger [email protected]


Workshop Goals

• Describe relationship ..Teaching and Learning

• Explore Active Learning – Why???– Ten Active Learning Strategies


YELLOW BLUE ORANGE

BLACK RED GREEN

PURPLE YELLOW RED

ORANGE GREEN BLACK


On the next slide

Say the COLOUR not the word


YELLOW BLUE ORANGE

BLACK RED GREEN

PURPLE YELLOW RED

ORANGE GREEN BLACK


Left-Right Conflict

Your left brain insists on reading the word

BUT

Your right brain tries to say the colour


IUMRING TO GQNGIUSIQNS

Active Learning


Teaching is to learning

Like_______________ is to _______________


Learning is Dynamic

• Making sense and meaning of new material

• Connecting existing knowledge to new knowledge

• Active learning promotes Deep Learning


Emotional Connection

Sense

Meaning

Short to Long Term MemoryWhatSo WhatWhat Now


I know my students are learning when

I..


The learner is in control of their

learning


Active Learning Strategy # 1

Think Pair

Share


What makes teaching active ?



Quotes


The teachers' work is NOT to cover the content. BUT rather uncover the content.


Telling is NOT Teaching



Background Knowledge

Probe


What is the area of this shape ?



Level of Confidence


WHICH CANDLE GOES OUT FIRST ?


Dale’s Cone of ExperienceDale’s Cone of Experience

Edgar Dale, Audio-Visual Methods in Teaching (3rd Edition), Holt, Rinehart and Winston (1969)


Abstract

Iconic

Enactive



Abstract


Reading

Hearing


Rose


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Iconic


Looking at pictures

Watching a movie

Looking at a exhibit

Watching a demo

Seeing it done on location


Enactive


Giving a talk

Doing a Dramatic

Presentation

Simulating the Real Experience

Doing the Real Thing


Dale’s Cone of ExperienceDale’s Cone of Experience


Two weeks after the experience, the learner will remember ……


Discussion Group (Verbal and Visual Processing 18 %


Chinese ProverbChinese Proverb

Tell Me – I forget

Show me – I remember

Involve me – I understand


Discussion Group (Verbal and Visual Processing 18 %


TEACHING

Visual Verbal

Visual / Verbal


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Muddiest Point


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Dales Cone of Experience


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Muddiest Point


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Visual Tools


One Minute Paper



Student Generated Questions



Geometric Close



Geometric Close

What squared (agreed) with something you already knew?


Geometric Close

What did you see from a different angle?


Geometric Close

What did you learn that was new,that completed your circle of knowledge?


Geometric Close

What new direction will you go in ? What action will you take?z


Questioning



The future belongs to those who ask the

best questions.


“ANY Questions”


Active Learning Techniques

1. Think pair share 2. Quotes 3. Background knowledge probe 4. Level of confidence 5. Muddiest Point 6. One minute paper 7. Visual Tools8. Student generated questions9. Geometric close 10. Questioning


Principles of Good Teaching

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