There are a couple different ways that the teacher has been using active learning while I have been in his class. The first one is he has his students use a chrome book and uses the website quizizz.com where the whole class has the same quiz that the teacher has created and they have play against one another. They also post the progress up on the board to show who has the most right who is getting the answers the fastest etc. It was really fun for the kids, it was combining learning with a video game aspect. All the kids in the class were very engaged and learning.
The other one that I saw that was effective was he strategically placed 4-5 kids in a group using each of their strengths to help form a group that could work together and could learn together. This seemed a little more labor intensive than the other but I think each student benefited a little more from this strategy just because of the thought process before hand of who to group together. This approach also made some of the students that are normally quieter and stay on the sidelines of some of the other activities play an active role in the group. There are only a couple other kids so they had to step up and add to the group. I see benefits to both approaches. The opportunity to work in the classroom has helped me to understand the importance of using several different teaching methods in order to help each different type of learner be able to succeed.
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