Engaging Students in Active Learning – Level 2
Fall 2007

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"The strengths of this workshop were the active participation and the opportunities to apply the activities."
-- participant from the Fall 2002 class

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Engaging Students in Active Learning – Level 2 (Fall 2007)

(Pre-approved for 18 clock hours of non-academic advancement)
If you took Engaging Students in Active Learning, and you told us you would be interested in an advanced level, we have designed this LearnShop just for you.

This six-session, 18-hour workshop, will provide more in-depth opportunities for faculty to actively experience various strategies that increase student involvement, including cooperative learning, service learning, critical thinking, and classroom assessment techniques, and will also allow teachers to practice individualizing structures. Team-building and assessment of long-term projects will be part of the experience.

Objectives

The participant will be able to:

1. establish a class climate for success in active learning as evidenced by respect, encouragement, and free exchange;
2. examine a larger number of models and strategies that teachers use to implement active learning across the curriculum;
3. build long-term project classroom teams that work cohesively and that demonstrate interdependence and individual accountability; facilitate teams' cohesiveness, camaraderie, and ability to work together; evaluate team and individual effectiveness.
4. identify complex utilization of expert jigsaw and structured academic controversy;
5. design and lead class-builder/team-builder
6. create a mind-map of student learning
7. identify various forms of student diversity;
8. determine what active learning elements can support successful virtual learning environments;
9. plan long term active learning team projects and accompanying assessment
10. increase reflective practitioner skills as a facilitator of active learning

Format

6 sessions, 3 hours and 15 minutes each

• Mini-lectures and class discussion
• Model lessons to observe and participate in
• Hands-on activities and classroom exercises
• Email chat
• Classroom assessment activities
• Guest speakers, video clips

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Time and Place

2:40pm - 5:45pm at GateWay Community College SO1330

• September 5, 2007
• September 12, 2007
• September 19, 2007
• September 26, 2007
• October 3, 2007
• October 10, 2007

For additional information, contact
Melinda Rudibaugh, 480-732-7049, melinda.rudibaugh@cgcmail.maricopa.edu<