Jace Hargis Learner Outcome. Following this session, the learner will be able to integrate at least one of the active learning methods shared during this session into their classroom during the first part of the next semester.

1. One Minute Thinking to Share
Muddy Maps on TV
Hargis

2. Agenda
What is [Active] Learning?
•
One-Minute Paper
•
Think/Pair/Share
•
Muddiest Point
•
Concept Mapping

3. Learner Outcome
Following this session, the learner will be
able to integrate at least one of the active
learning methods shared during this
session into their classroom during the first
part of the next semester.

4. “What the Best College Teachers Do”
Ken Bain, 2010
•
know how we learn;
•
teaching as serious intellectual endeavor;
•
expect more from their students;
•
outcomes reflect what is expected for life;
•
environment to explore, analyze, synthesize
and construct meaning in own ways;
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have formative, systematic program to assess
themselves and students.

5. Learning
– change in the capacity
for behavior;
– endures over time;
– occurs through experience.
Schunk (1996)

6. How Do We Learn?
When and how did YOU learn
something well?
What blocks
learning?

7. What is Active Learning?
•
Paulson & Faust (2002) - anything that
students do other than passively listen to
lecture.
•
Short writing, complex group exercises in
which students apply course material to "real
life" situations and new problems.

8. One Minute Paper
•
Learners write for 1 minute on a
specific question.
Please take 1 minute to answer:
“What one or two low threshold changes
can I make in my classroom to increase
student engagement in a systematic,
enduring way?”

9. Think/Pair/Share
•
Learners reconsider a concept, then compare
possible ideas with a partner before sharing
with the class or next step activities.
“Find a partner OUTSIDE of your
discipline and each take one
minute to share your one
minute paper ideas.”

10. Muddiest Point
•
Like the One-Minute Paper, but asks for the
“most confusing” point instead.
“Next, write down portions of your 1 minute
paper, which could be
unclear to others.”

11. Concept Mapping
• Write keywords onto notes and then
organize into a flowchart. Good for:
• Brain Storming
• Complex ideas
• Explicitly integrating new
and old knowledge
• Assess/diagnose

12. Example
Carbon
Cycle
Concept
Map

13. Concept Map
1. Write one term/Post-It related to YOUR Low
Threshold Method to Engage Students.
2. Gather Post-Its
3. Stand up.
4. Move.
5.Develop CM with new Post-Its

14. TV Commercial
•
In small groups, learners create a story board
for a 30-second TV
commercial.
“In your Concept Map groups, create a story-
board of active learning ideas collectively to
produce a TV Commercial”

15. Before we end…
Please write…
1. A one sentence summary of this session.
1. One idea that you might use.
1. One word that describes how you feel.

16. Thank You!
I have a list of 145 Active
Methods for those interested
Jace Hargis, PhD