Engagement in the classroom keeps the students to come back to class, because it wont be boring. In my class we do Kahoots and they students love it!
The "Checklist to Critique Your Group Project" is a great tool for students working in groups. Thanks for including this! It will be helpful to see how the students felt the group members contributed to the project and how well the members felt they understood/learned the material by completing the group project.
This can help the students self-reflect and facilitators improve the group project and the group project experience.
It is really important for the instructor to set learner expectations from the beginning, provide opportunities for reflection, and consider barriers to engagement.
Not only providing resources to students, but also providing various types of student activities to engage all the different students in a classroom will be beneficial to the active learner model.
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I was thrusted into virtual teaching during the pandemic. It was helpful to collaborate with an instructor who had experience with virtual teaching. I was able to come up with some engaging assignments and allow the students to verbalize what they were learning. One of the biggest challenges was to have all of the students keep their cameras on the entire class time.
Providing feedback that is timely and specific is so helpful to students. I think the students getting to be known by their professor helps so much with course completion.
rubrics are important for visual representation of what is expected of the students. encouragement of active participation will increase student learning
Rubrics provide two way benefit by increasing transparency and simplifying grading
It is important to give frequent feedback and grades so students know how they are doing in the course and stay engaged. It is also important to directly reply to posts and assignments so they feel like they can communicate with the instructor.
Active learning makes the class more enjoyable for both the instructor and the students. In theory, it should keep everyone engaged and promote student-centered learning.
Just like face-to-face learning, it is important to keep students engaged in online learning. Instructors need to be continuously creative with assignments and class activities. Also, rubrics are an excellent tool to help with grading.
I need to learn five active learning tools to use in my online classroom.
I feel that good teaching involves assessment if what you are teaching by learning the feedback from the students. It is really no different for those instructors using active learning techniques. Some of the instructors do not want to receive poor evaluations and ultimately, they want students to achieve course learning outcomes.
I have learned to incorporate interactive elements for example instead of standard lecture use group discussions, case studies.
Rubric system is the best part and is very beneficial for such classrooms.
Engagement with students and encouragement in the course material.
As an instructor, it's good to use timely and effective feedback.
I will implement a group work rubric in my classes. I also think the emphasis on continued feedback for student motivation is an important reminder.
I love how active learning is so centered around the students' experience. This module encouraged me to pay special attention to the ways in which I might be able to approach course content to better capitalize on the input of my students both individually and as a group.
I appreciate learning about the types of active learning including reading, reflective writing, displaying, and doing. I plan on incorporating all four of these things into my courses.
rubrics have a great impact on the student , the student will know the subject and will know where are they during the class.
