Active Learning is designed for use in study skills or strategies courses in which instructors want a strong focus on helping readers become active, independent learners. The book is unique because it teaches how characteristics of a learner, their knowledge of the task, the materials to be learned, and their strategies for learning interact to influence academic success in college. Topics include: motivation, time management, finding and using campus resources, dealing with professors, active learning strategies, test taking strategies, and rehearsal strategies. This book takes a hands-on approach to learning new strategies for academic success. Each chapter contains a Research into Practice section, which translates studying and learning research into solid practices. Scenarios in each chapter present readers with situations they can identify with and asks them to recognize and solve study problems. Readers have ample opportunity for self-evaluation, critical thinking, and practice. For anyone wishing to improve study skills.
This book takes a hands-on approach to learning new strategies for academic success. Each chapter contains a Research into Practice section, which translates studying and learning research into solid practices.
While Active Learning Classrooms, or ALCs, offer rich new environments for learning, they present many new challenges to faculty because, among other things, they eliminate the room's central focal point and disrupt the conventional seating plan to which faculty and students have become accustomed. The importance of learning how to use these classrooms well and to capitalize on their special features is paramount. The potential they represent can be realized only when they facilitate improved learning outcomes and engage students in the learning process in a manner different from traditional classrooms and lecture halls. This book provides an introduction to ALCs, briefly covering their history and then synthesizing the research on these spaces to provide faculty with empirically based, practical guidance on how to use these unfamiliar spaces effectively. 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 room? * How can teachers address familiar classroom-management challenges in these unfamiliar spaces? * If assessment and rapid feedback are critical in active learning, how do they work in a room filled with circular tables and no central focus point? * How do instructors balance group learning with the needs of the larger class? * How can students be held accountable when many will necessarily have their backs facing the instructor? * How can instructors evaluate the effectiveness of their teaching in these spaces? This book is intended for faculty preparing to teach in or already working in this new classroom environment; for administrators planning to create ALCs or experimenting with provisionally designed rooms; and for faculty developers helping teachers transition to using these new spaces.
This book is intended for faculty preparing to teach in or already working in this new classroom environment; for administrators planning to create ALCs or experimenting with provisionally designed rooms; and for faculty developers helping ...
Without effective modern technology, active learning environments will struggle to provide students with the engaging and challenging academic experience that these recent pedagogical developments have been developed to facilitate. This text shows what can be achieved from new learning spaces, and how distributed technological solutions are an integral part of the requirement.
Turn your classroom into an active learning environment today and use the strategies in this book to actively engage students in creating their own knowledge. Each strategy is research based, involves higher-order thinking skills, and promotes a multi-modal approach to help students develop an understanding of content-area topics. This resource provides not only "hands-on" activities, but "heads-on" activities as well. The active learning strategies provided in this book can be implemented to teach any content and include a description of each strategy, how to implement it in the classroom, assessment ideas, and ways to extend the strategy.
Active Learning Across the Content Areas provides research-based strategies that work to activate prior knowledge, improve decision-making and critical thinking skills, and provoke important student discussions with hands-on minds-on ...
Facts101 is your complete guide to The Principles of Learning and Behavior, Active Learning Edition. In this book, you will learn topics such as as those in your book plus much more. With key features such as key terms, people and places, Facts101 gives you all the information you need to prepare for your next exam. Our practice tests are specific to the textbook and we have designed tools to make the most of your limited study time.
Facts101 is your complete guide to The Principles of Learning and Behavior, Active Learning Edition. In this book, you will learn topics such as as those in your book plus much more.
The last decade has seen a dramatic increase in the application of active learning methods including problem-based learning, cooperative learning, and service learning and supportive strategies such as electronic methods to the college/university chemistry classroom and laboratory. This symposium series book focuses on the application of active learning methods in teaching analytical science, broadly defined, at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. The volume includes a wide range of examples of how these methods are being applied at public and private community colleges, four-year colleges, and graduate research universities in the United States and abroad. As such the strategies and materials described in the book should be of interest to analytical chemists, chemical educators, and chemistry teaching faculty and graduate students no matter their area of specialization.
This symposium series book focuses on the application of active learning methods in teaching analytical science, broadly defined, at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
A Parent's Guide to Helping Your Teen Make the Grade in School
Offers methods for helping teens respond positively to school, presents a plan for learning progress, and shows how to increase self-esteem and communication skills
Offers methods for helping teens respond positively to school, presents a plan for learning progress, and shows how to increase self-esteem and communication skills
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weather is too bad to go out, have an exercise class with your Twos. Push the
tables and chairs against a wall, and put away all the toys so you have a large,
safe, open area. Don't worry if your Twos don't exercise exactly the way you do or
if a few wander off. Try some of these exercises. Twos can stretch up high and
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