By incorporating activity-based teaching strategies into instruction, educators create dynamic and engaging learning environments that cater to diverse learning styles and promote deeper understanding ...

Active learning strategies engage students in the learning process, fostering deeper understanding and retention. By encouraging participation, collaboration, and critical thinking during classroom ...

Active Learning Strategies Active learning puts students at the center of the learning process by encouraging them to engage, reflect, and apply what they’re learning in meaningful ways. Rather than ...

Think-pair-share (TPS) is the black dress of active learning: a highly flexible tool that can take as little or as much time as needed, and serve a number of pedagogical purposes including ...

Active learning strategies range from simple pauses in lecture, which allow students time to reflect on lecture material, to complex group work to students actively learning outside the classroom. In ...

The Active Learning Card Deck offers 50 practical, creative, and flexible teaching strategies to energize your class sessions. This deck was developed by Alexis Block, a graduate assistant with ASSETT ...

What is Active Learning? Active learning is not a new concept. Though coined by Bonwell and Eisen (1991), aspects of active learning can be found in studies by Piaget, Vygotsky, and Dewey *. Active ...

The Center for Teaching Excellence and Innovation is proud to introduce our new card set and online resource on Active Learning strategies. Bring your lunch and join your colleagues in exploring these ...

Leveraging cognitive science for active learning Recent research on human cognition offers a number of insights into the most effective (and ineffective) ways to learn. Our students can benefit from ...

Active learning, or instructional methods that actively engage students in their own learning, is on the rise. So, too, are physical spaces dedicated to this kind of teaching. These are positive ...

After nearly two decades instructing both students and teachers, Jennifer Throndsen has identified three key tools to scaffold literacy instruction for developing readers: active reading ...

For that reason, strategies like questioning an author and reciprocal teaching, whereby students clarify confusions and use each other and outside resources to comprehend text, are essential to ...