ACTIVE TEACHING STRATEGIESNC New Teacher Support Program

UNC Charlotte Coaches

HEAR IT OR LEARN IT?

Hear it: lecture is best (quick and easy) Learn it: a little more complicated

Learning – enabling students to remember and use the information given

To learn, you need to have high-interest, content related, active involvement

And here’s how…

CONNECTION COLLECTIONS

Teacher provides students with box or bag with objects related to upcoming topic

Students attempt to predict what the topic will be and infer the relationships between the objects

TIP: keep the students’ inferences and items visible throughout the unit

CONNECTION COLLECTION (EXAMPLE 1)

CONNECTION COLLECTION (EXAMPLE 2)

SURVEYS Design surveys for students to take Survey Questions

Agree or Disagree

Comment Agree or Disagree Explanation

It is important for my family to approve of who I date.

o Likert-Scale

Statement Scale 1 (not at all)-4 (very)

Explanation

Juliet is brave. 1 2 3 4

Romeo is a whiner.

1 2 3 4

o Use as a pre or post-assessment

VOCABULARY TIC TAC TOE (VERSION 1)

Students must choose three activities to complete with vocabulary words

VOCABULARY TIC TAC TOE (VERSION 2)

Students must write 8 sentences using vocabulary words in each direction

PASS THE PAPER

Stop students after a short time of lecture and ask, “If you were going to be quizzed on what you just heard, what would be one of the questions?”

Student writes question, passes to neighbor who answers question, then passes to third student who checks answer

Elicits class discussion about misconceptions

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THE ABC OF __________.

Provide students with a topic. Create a table with the letters of the

alphabet. Instruct students to write words, phrases, or

sentences that are related to the topic for each letter of the alphabet.

Let’s try with the topic of TEACHING! Advice

Group students and have them work together Tell students they don’t have to go in order. Give a time limit and make it a contest Most letters in 10 minutes win.

CHARACTER MAPPING

Head: Thoughts Eyes: See Mouth: Say Ears: Hear Stomach: Feel Heart: Care about/love Hands: Do Arms: Strengths Legs: Where have they been? Feet: Where does the person go?

I HAVE, WHO HAS

Each student and the teacher receive a card with a question and unrelated answer

The teacher reads the question on his/her card, the student with the answer says, “I have ____, Who has _____?”

This continues until a student reads a question matching the teacher’s answer

I HAVE:12

WHO HAS:5x8

I HAVE:40

WHO HAS:2x9

I HAVE:18

WHO HAS:7x10

I HAVE:70

WHO HAS:4x4

I HAVE:16

WHO HAS:3x4

Conclusion

Questions

Comments

Concerns