active learning - listening team

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Listening Team

Winter of 2014Winter of 2014

Presenter: Mohsen Presenter: Mohsen ShaarifiradShaarifiradPhD Student of Agricultural PhD Student of Agricultural Extension and EducationExtension and Education

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When student having enough time to have interaction with lesson subject, at that time Active Learning can happen. (not just seeing and hearing)

After each teaching we expect for arriving to

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Active Learning(Tips)

Active learning requires deeper planning than simply leading students through a classroom behavior.

Active learning involves providing opportunities for students to meaningfully talk and listen,

write, read, and reflect on the content, ideas, issues, and concerns of an academic subject.

(Meyers & Jones, 1993, p. 6)

Active Learning(Tips)

Actually with using the methods of teaching which students reach to active learning we help them for

memorizing the information in their long-term memories.

Listening Team is a technique that it deals with not just listening…

Listening Team

There are taking notes, asking questions and summarize at result of revolving students with teaching issue and materials

A kind of teaching methods

How to Set up the team(Roles)

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Questioner:Gives examples or applications of key concepts.Givers:

After the presentation, give an example from yourown experience. Agrees:

After the presentation, be ready to tell one point youagree with (or find helpful) and explain why

Disagrees:After the presentation, comment on one point youdisagree with (or find unhelpful) and explain why

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How to Set up the team(Roles) rotate the tasks around the groups

-While listening to the lecture or video, think of examples, questions, and areas of disagreement and agreement.

-After the presentation, meet as a group for 5-10 minutes to share ideas and finalize your contributions.

- Groups will share examples and ask clearly questions of the professor or other groups to solidify their understanding of the key concepts.

Assignments

Mel Silberman, 1996. Active Learning: 101 Strategies to Teach Any Subject

Once you have the teams set up, give them Once you have the teams set up, give them their assignment:their assignment:

They also provide opportunities for questioning and group discussion

Advantages

“Listening teams” is a simple idea that encourages students to keep focusing

There is an informal situation

Members of groups do solidify their information that they realized

Getting rid of noisy students due to their turns

Can be time consuming

Limitations

Group members must be quite knowledgeable about subject

The team may not represent

The team may not exactly reflect the views

It doesn’t completely deal with doing and Active Learning

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Marchese (1998) says

“Active learning has the ring of a slogan; passive learning is an oxymoron.”

  Antonym