Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Gabriele Pinto , Baylor University Key Statement: Implementing elements of active learning into a large course may seem daunting task, but think-pair-share aided by quizzing and clickers can be done in any size classroom. 2023; Hsu & Goldsmith, 2021; Venus & Sharma, 2024). Image courtesy of This Is Engineering, Unsplash.

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Lecturing Active Learning Activities STEM 98

Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Guidebooks to structure group work. These active learning strategies can work in any course—for any major, in any discipline. Some of the most dynamic thinkers and doers in education today are pioneers in active learning. YouTube videos for extra credit. A tattoo writing exercise. Vocab riddles.

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Active Learning Activities Teaching Multidisciplinary 163

Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2019

Although a wealth of research suggests that active learning increases student engagement and improves academic outcomes, many college campuses struggle to get faculty to shift away from traditional, sage-on-a-stage style teaching practices. Now, pods for group work circle monitors connected to a video wall.

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Active Learning Activities Instructors Learning Spaces 168

eSchool News

AUGUST 13, 2024

In early education, incorporating sensory activities and interactive play can greatly benefit infants and toddlers. Additionally, engaging them in interactive play activities (i.e., In elementary education, incorporating hands-on activities, promoting group work, and using visual aids are crucial for effective learning.

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Cognitive Development Students Secondary Education Assignments 300

Catlin Tucker

MAY 5, 2016

Stations can be composed of a variety of activities (including, but not limited to): Teacher-led small group instruction. Collaborative small group work. This gives students the opportunity to control the pace at which they move through stations and activities. Makerspace station. Project-based learning time.

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Blended Learning Research Design Writing Art 420

Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 13, 2021

This work developing the social presence in our courses and helping students feel valued as members of a learning community must be ongoing. If students are not participating in discussion or group work in breakout rooms, that may indicate that they are not feeling comfortable asserting themselves online.

Beliefs 492

Beliefs Discussions Assignments Blended Learning 492

Edsurge

JULY 1, 2017

Two years ago we renovated an old computer lab into an active learning classroom. Now, as an active-learning classroom, the default arrangement is for students to work in teams—six team stations for up to 36 students. I would put classes in there that are made up of groups.” It’s still all about the people.

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Active Learning Activities Learning Instructors 141

eSchool News

MAY 11, 2021

Teach Group Work Etiquette: Don’t assume your students remember how to have group discussions. Don’t hesitate to begin lessons with activities to develop these skills for the first few weeks. If you don’t use it, you lose it, right? What do we do to help our students regain these “educational muscles?”

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Skills Students High School High School 334

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Over the past several years, these spaces have transformed into collaborative areas that encourage group work, discussions, and hands-on activities, promoting creativity and innovation–ultimately becoming instrumental in shaping well-rounded, adaptable learners.

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Schools Students Hybrid Learning Textbooks 278

eSchool News

JANUARY 6, 2023

The most effective technology works with you to enable or extend the instruction you’re providing. In small-group work, for example, students can do so many things with technology, such as reading aloud, practicing decoding, doing a word sort, or practicing dictation. Related : The phonics fix? Take it slow.

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Grades Reading Group work Activities 334

Faculty Focus

JULY 18, 2024

Online classes most often begin with an “introduce yourself” discussion forum for students to get comfortable working with peers in discussions and other activities. Here are some activities to use in your online courses. Our students have really enjoyed this type of activity in the past as well. Jeopardy Jeopardy!

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Activities Instructors Participation Questions 111

Faculty Focus

JULY 11, 2024

When I look at the various articles and comments in the Teaching Professor collection, group work continues to be a regular topic. From a well-designed and well-implemented group activity, students can have rich encounters with the content and learn the value of working collaboratively. I don’t think so.

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Group work Instructors Students Research Methods 64

Faculty Focus

JULY 18, 2024

Online classes most often begin with an “introduce yourself” discussion forum for students to get comfortable working with peers in discussions and other activities. Here are some activities to use in your online courses. Our students have really enjoyed this type of activity in the past as well. Jeopardy Jeopardy!

Activities 109

Activities Instructors Participation Questions 109

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Plus, it can leave students feeling disconnected from the scientific process, because they’re really just following instructions rather than actively exploring and discovering. Second graders did the Pampered Plant project, which is a STEAM-based activity where youngsters create a customizable plant monitoring system.

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Science Critical Thinking STEM Textbooks 321

eSchool News

JANUARY 26, 2024

What is a learning activity in a classroom? Projects can be individually completed or a collaborative effort, promoting group work and social skills. Classroom learning is much more successful when students are engaged in that learning via interactive classroom activities. What class activities help you learn the most?

Learning 311

Learning STEM Motivation Activities 311

Catlin Tucker

MAY 18, 2015

The teacher is in control of the classroom environment and the activities taking place there. Students are at the center of the learning happening in the classroom, which requires that they make decisions and work together. They brainstormed ideas and groups worked at their own pace to complete their various performance tasks.

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Teaching Assignments Group work Skills 404

Faculty Focus

JULY 11, 2024

When I look at the various articles and comments in the Teaching Professor collection, group work continues to be a regular topic. From a well-designed and well-implemented group activity, students can have rich encounters with the content and learn the value of working collaboratively. I don’t think so.

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Group work Instructors Students Research Methods 59

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

When I explained what I was doing, why it was needed, and that only their activity during school hours was visible, they started to change their minds. But eventually, they started liking how it worked and how it helped them. I also have students who need to know when to share work with others. I push them to speak up.

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Students Disabilities Group work Special Education 284

eSchool News

JANUARY 17, 2024

A variety of other tactics–such as drawings, pictures, manipulatives, sentence frames, short videos, physical activities, and games–can also be used to help students learn vocabulary. Ask students about their interests and incorporate those into word problems or activities. Use small groups to discuss and solve problems.

STEM 334

STEM English Languages Language 334

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Group work vs. cooperative learning. When I was still in the classroom, I called lots of activities “group work,” but some students hid from the learning while others carried the group, and that is not true of cooperative learning.

Learning 279

Learning Social Studies Participation Group work 279

eSchool News

MARCH 19, 2025

It offers lessons, resources, a digital library, and hands-on activities. Once the teacher assigns the STEM activity to a class, students can access it immediately. Using Gizmo in partners or groups has really aided in providing students with a voice, confidence, and an eagerness to learn more.

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Teachers Learning Science STEM 311

Faculty Focus

MAY 29, 2025

After 13 years of testing higher-order active learning modalities in the classroom, collecting data, building a database, and analyzing student learning results in bi-annual principles of marketing classes, my colleague and I saw two important results emerge.

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Student Engagement Syllabus Learning Students 81

eSchool News

MARCH 4, 2019

It would also necessitate that the written instructions for the activity or lesson were clear, student friendly, and had clear steps for a student to follow. Students would have to be in a workshop atmosphere working on reading, writing, projects, or collaborative group work—not a sit-and-get classroom.

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Teachers Classroom Management Group work Writing 268

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Projects can be individually completed or a collaborative effort, promoting group work and social skills. Because students control their learning in the PBL approach, differentiation is simple, if needed at all, as students conduct their own learning at their own pace and present their learning in a mode that makes sense to them.

Writing 300

Writing Grades Motivation Attention 300

Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 1, 2023

It’s pretty well known in educational circles that cooperative learning is supported by research, but so many teachers still struggle with it, so when things don’t work well, they give it up. It can be effective to have groups of 4 or 5, a couple of partners, and a few students working alone.

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Group work Assignments Questions Communication 52

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Group presentations. Group work is not a new concept for K-12 classrooms. With more experience in developing group presentations, students will be prepared to work with people who aren’t in their local vicinity to create deliverables. There are myriad ways to include critical thinking in classroom activities.

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Critical Thinking Students Communication Group work 211

eSchool News

MAY 13, 2019

Most recently, we completed our largest construction project to date—a three-story space that started as a library renovation and concluded as an active Research + Design Center (R+D) that supports multiple learning modalities, provides choice, and fuels creativity. At Beaver Country Day School in Newton, Mass., So, how do you fix this?

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Research Design Classroom Design Group work Questions 279

eSchool News

APRIL 7, 2023

Digital teaching tools, multi-sensory manipulatives, activities, play-based lessons, and a host of other important educational tools, are included in the complete version of Get Set for School.  Embedded professional development empowers and inspires teachers with real-time guided and just-in-time learning modules.

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Learning Reading Elementary School Elementary School 298

eSchool News

APRIL 4, 2025

Conduct a hands-on activity that provides a context for the vocabulary students are learning. Reinforce the terms by asking students to draw pictures of them in their notebooks or use them in conversations during group work. Ask students to record them in math vocabulary notebooks they can reference throughout the year.

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Math Accessibility English Language 238

Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Synchronous online learning” generally refers to live learning activities that must happen at a set time (often over Zoom or a similar platform), while “asynchronous online learning” refers to almost everything else (completing assignments, doing readings, watching videos, etc.). Let’s start with the basics.

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Lecturing Disabilities Assignments Learning 218

eSchool News

JULY 1, 2024

Building from work by Bandura , Social Learning Theory proposes that adopting new behaviors and knowledge comes from observing others.

High School 300

High School High School Knowledge Motivation 300

eSchool News

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Part of preparing students for the real world is teaching them to collaborate and problem-solve while working with others in small groups. My classroom model includes a lot of group work where students complete tasks with a partner or in groups of four to six. Mini dry-erase boards, the Activate system, and Kahoot!

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Math Teachers Feedback Motivation 187

eSchool News

DECEMBER 7, 2023

If you give someone a laundry list of things to work on, they will feel overwhelmed and may even become demoralized. I find that it’s most effective to focus on one thing at a time, such as teacher-student interaction, facilitating center rotation activities, or small-group work.

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Coaching Teachers Feedback Motivation 325

eSchool News

OCTOBER 17, 2016

. “I’m the guy who’s fortunate, because I got some kids who really want to learn, who take it seriously and make it easy for me to come to work every day and do what I do,” Hines said. I’ve had a lot of hands-on activities on stuff that I actually like to do,” he said. “It’s been great.

High School 261

High School High School Exams Schools 261

Teach Hub

APRIL 25, 2025

Promote Collaboration Through Group Work When it comes to helping students create stronger projects, sometimes more really is better. Be their soundboard, their cheerleader, and the person who helps them push their thinking a little further. Students thrive when they feel supported but not steered.

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Students Communication Intelligence Motivation 92

eSchool News

JANUARY 15, 2020

Natural leaders may emerge during group work as part of a team presentation assignment. Casio : Casio’s education solutions aim to deliver flexibility as they support active learning and collaboration. Shy students may come out of their shells when allowed to give a presentation via blog post or podcast.

Learning Tools 166

Learning Tools Learning Assignments Group work 166

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 26, 2024

Thus, there is a need to create an exclusive schedule that covers your personal and work commitments specifically for this period. Here are some ways to balance your work and life during this busy period. For example, if you feel tired, you can find a way to relax and catch up on work later.

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Teachers Attention Achievement Activities 167