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 ...

A Spectrum of Active Learning Strategies There are many active learning modalities informed by different teaching and learning traditions. We envision these modalities on a spectrum. This spectrum can ...

It’s Not So Simple. By Beckie Supiano November 16, 2023 iStock Students whose STEM courses are taught using active learning perform better than those taught with traditional lectures.

This summer, the Center for Teaching and Learning brought together faculty from across RIT for two immersive programs — the ActiveLearn Institute and the Advanced ActiveLearn Institute. The ...

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 ...