Sentences with phrase «active learning classrooms»

The Master Educator Program (MEP) offers financial support to successful applicants (ASPB members) to participate in focused, substantive, and practical professional development with the aim of developing undergraduate plant biology instructional materials for an active learning classroom.

Alexander Astin, professor emeritus at University of California, Los Angeles, notes the shift in teaching that an active learning classroom requires.

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This made classroom learning very active.

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Brownell recommends using active learning practices to help close the gap, including clickers, classroom discussion and other tools known to enhance student learning and help students perform better on critical thinking questions.

«The best part of this project for me was learning about active galactic nuclei and supermassive black holes on a level I never could have in either undergraduate or graduate classroom settings.»

«Researchers create new tool that measures active learning in classrooms: Analyzing classroom noise may help teachers improve teaching methods.»

Attempts by college faculty to use active learning, long popular in K - 12 classrooms, started taking off in the mid-1990s, Freeman said, though lecturing still dominates.

With current national and state science education standards emphasizing hands - on and applied science learning, teachers need, more than ever before, materials they can use with students to foster and support active learning, but finding funding to pay for supplemental classroom science materials can be difficult.

She is also passionate about science education and bringing active learning techniques to the classroom, with the goal of making introductory biology more accessible to diverse learners.

She was also a teaching fellow at the University of Maryland, where she studied and implemented uses of active learning and the «flipped classroom» to teach honors students about cell biology.

The naturopathic program provides the experience of small class sizes, encouraging classroom interaction in an active learning environment.

Each of us learn in different ways, and that's why our «active learning» curriculum places a big emphasis on physical training and outdoor exercise, alongside more traditional classroom - based learning.»

In our elementary school classrooms, we use AR to create active learning experiences hitherto inconceivable, and in the process redefine the learning space!

This series of three videos shows how designers and community volunteers helped a teacher at Roosevelt Middle School in San Francisco transform his crowded classroom into a space that fosters collaboration, creativity, and active student learning.

Project - based classrooms with an active - learning environment make such in - the - flow moments more common.

As a result, I encourage regular teachers (like myself) to embrace this term and use technology to create a blended curriculum that combines engagement and active learning in the classroom with meaningful work done online.

Through student - centered learning, differentiated instruction, and connecting the classroom to the world, Dewey proposed that students should assume an active role in their learning process so as to develop the skills for becoming successful members of their communities.

«She has been an active participant in class discussions demonstrating clear evidence of her deepening knowledge of how language mediates all learning and how English learners present both strengths and challenges in classrooms.

The New York City - based foundation said it hopes its new «students at the center» grant program will help train teachers to abandon traditional 40 - minute lectures for more - active approaches in the classroom, such as problem - solving, critical thinking, and hands - on learning.

A three page poster document designed to display the Characteristics of Effective Learning for a school website (can also be used on a classroom display) Posters included: Active Learning - Motivation Playing and Exploring - Engagement Creating and Thinking Critically This Foundation Stage set includes posters for both Nursery and Reception.

Effective classroom management consists of far more than establishing and imposing rules, rewards and incentives to control behaviour, it involves practices and instructional techniques to create a learning environment that facilitates and supports active engagement in learning, encourages co-operation and promotes behaviour that benefits other people.

This is fundamentally an extension of the points outlined above, but using a work board as part of a learning exercise or classroom based activity can make students feel like active parts of a group, which in turn helps to foster a sense of belonging.

Here are six A4 classroom posters depicting the difference between active and passive learning, offering self help when not understanding and providing a gentle reminder about homework and talking.

Well - designed school grounds can help to take learning outside the classroom, encourage more active lifestyles, and give them a chance to apply skills they have learnt across the curriculuman, writes Stacey Aplin from charity Groundwork.

The use of Socratic questioning creates an active classroom where learning is student - centered and inquiry - based.

For students in his Education Organizing course, learning is not confined to the classroom — they are required to participate every week in some direct way with an institution or school active in school change and community - building.

Terah Crews: Active - learning classroom technology.

The award included a $ 500,000 grant, which he has dedicated to the Hrabowski Fund for Innovation to support and promote a culture of innovation; entrepreneurship through course design and redesign; development of unique classroom learning environments that support active learning, team - based learning, and entrepreneurial skill development; lab - and project - based capstone courses; faculty fellowships; and peer - learning initiatives.

When you're integrating technology and designing a classroom management strategy, it's always best to think about the kind of scene that I just described and first focus on active learning.

I always encourage active learning, collaboration, and ongoing participation in the classroom.

Discipline was much less of an issue and active learning became the center focus of our classroom activities.

A rounded - corner design provides a safer learning environment for active students by helping to prevent injuries in the classroom and it features 7H scratch - resistant surface hardness that ensures durability, as well as a consistent, high - quality touch experience.

Outdoor learning also encourages fitness, and pupils come to appreciate the benefits that a healthy, active lifestyle can bring, and this spirit of motivation has been shown to transfer over to the classroom; there is an observable increased appetite for learning which contributes to rising levels of attainment in all subjects.

Remove the teacher's desk and students feel more comfortable and less intimidated, teachers feel more active and engaged, and classroom learning happens in a shared space.

I recently spoke with Rami — who is active in the Connected Learning in Teacher Education network, to which I also belong — about how teachers have adapted Minecraft in their classrooms.

Building a community within the classroom, sets the tone and encourages students to be active members of their own learning.

These complications have the potential to be valuable opportunities to create a classroom culture of active learning and problem solving.

Moreover, the learning process is transformed from a passive way of learning, which reflects traditional teaching, into a more active, critical, and creative act that successfully transcends the four walls of the classroom.

In keeping with that spirit, we have designed project - based learning plans for K - 12 classrooms that put students in the role of active problem solver.

Transform your classroom into an active learning environment with our groups, quizzes, and tutorial features.

I find that opportunities for active engagement in the learning process such as discussions, scenarios, self - pacing, flipped classroom models, etc stimulate the audience and create for a more memorable learning experience.

Active learning lesson involving moving freely around the classroom...

«Today's primary classrooms are high pressure learning hubs — but being active is easier than you think, and has been shown to have positive educational outcomes.

A key reason that flipped teaching and learning marries so well with the active classroom is that by pushing some of the rote instructional practice outside of, and prior to, class sessions, it frees up valuable face - to - face class time for applied learning pursuits.

Nothing can fully replace the type of learning that goes on in an active classroom setting.

«This study shows that the flipped classroom does not result in higher learning gains or better attitudes over the nonflipped classroom when both utilize an active - learning, constructivist approach.

As higher education rethinks classroom instruction, preparing students for college - level learning means preparing students for active engagement.

Uniforms are optional, while classroom instruction includes a lot of project - based learning with students taking an active role in how they learn.

Nevertheless, contrary to these beliefs, high - quality teaching and learning and active student engagement can still occur in strict, teacher - controlled classrooms, even when the class size is large (Hiebert et al., 2003; Huang & Leung, 2004).