Classroom Activities for Active Learning
Active learning is the persons
own view to be active in their own learning process. It is also manipulation
process. It helps students to identify concepts and to create new concepts
according to their gained concepts. While learning actively, students realize
their own capability and they can increase their critical thinking and problem
solving skills. Also, active learning
can easily be gained by class activities. In this way, some techniques arrive
to apply active learning as more powerful in class environment. One of the ways to make active learning
powerful is questioning techniques. The main aim of asking questions is to
check students understanding on taught concepts and principles. However, while
asking questions, instructor should realize what a percentage of students
actively answers questions and what can be done to increase students’ number
responding questions. Also, it is really important to ask questions in the way
of expected answers. Instructor should be conscious to be able to show what he
expects while asking questions. Does instructor expect students to evaluate or
to remember a gained knowledge or to apply their knowledge into practice? It is
really important to get correct answers from students.
Another way to apply active learning is to put
students in small groups to let them work cooperatively. There are various types of putting students
in group. For example, pair-share is one of them. Instructor present a subject,
students think about it for a short time, then, students pair up their response
to one another, finally, all class discuss the issue. Another type of grouping
is Buzz groups. In this type, students are grouped as 5-8 people for discussing
about subject and finally, groups report their work and discuss with other
groups.
Also, whole class involvement is
also an important factor for active learning in class. There also are some strategies to help in
this way. One of them is Lecture Check. In lecture check strategy, 15-20
minutes a lecture is delivered, then, a multiple question is projected for
class. If most of the class gives correct answer, instructor continues course
material, otherwise, go back to the material. Second strategy is Whole-Class
Debates. In Whole Class Debate strategy, class is divided into two groups. Each
group is given five statements supporting their side of issue and finally two
or three volunteers make summary arguments for each side.
In addition, reading and writing
exercises are also helpful for active learning in class environment. There are
some strategies to use in this way. The first one is close reading method. In this strategy, instructor models how to
read and students may be wanted to read aloud similar selections, to discuss
them in groups of two or to paraphrase them in their own words. The second one
is Classroom Assessments Techniques. In these techniques, students write their
thoughts or questions about day’s topic. It will help them to concentrate
attention on topic so that they may be active listeners.
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