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Shift Students’ Roles from Passive Observers to Active Participants. Preparing students for a world that did not exist when they were students themselves can be challenging for many teachers. Engaging students, particularly disinterested ones, in the learning process is no easy task, especially when easy access to information is at an all-time high. How then do educators simultaneously ensure knowledge acquisition and engagement? Ron Nash encourages teachers to embrace an interactive classroom by rethinking their role as information givers. The Interactive Classroom provides a framework for how to influence the learning process and increase student participation by sharing • Proven strategies for improving presentation and facilitation skills • Kinesthetic, interpersonal, and classroom management methods • Brain-based teaching strategies that promote active learning • Project-based learning and formative assessment techniques that promote a robust learning environment Intended to cultivate an interactive classroom in which students take an active role in learning, this book provides a blueprint for educators seeking to amplify student engagement while imparting critical twenty-first century skills.
Let’s Be Clear
Let’s Be Clear
There I was one early December morning, facilitating a workshop in Williamsburg, Virginia, with about 70 teachers and administrators as participants. They were standing in pairs, and each participant held a laminated card. I announced that when I gave the signal, they should talk with their respective partners about what their cards had in common, then trade cards and find a new partner, continuing the conversations with different participants until I told them to stop. Feeling, no doubt, that my instructions were clear and eminently understandable, I was about to set the activity in motion when an administrator close to me leaned in and whispered, “Our cards are laminated, rectangular, and blue!”
He had, of course, seized upon a weak ...
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