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Goals

Readiness Assurance Test (RAT) Individual, then Group

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Quiz Questions

Find a Partner/Pair . . ..

The Quiet Signal

The Three Step Interview

Three-Step Interview Process A B Interviews B A Interviews

Three Step Interview Questions

“Sponge” or Extension Activity

First Things First

Monitoring

THREE COMMON PROBLEMS: Lack of Interest: “Students are bored with my class and lose interest quickly.” Poor Preparation: “Students don’t do the assigned readings before class.” Poor Retention of Learning: “Students do well on the test, but on the next test or in the next course, they seem to forget everything they learned earlier.”  

Lack of Interest Lack of Interest 1. Enhance the teacher’s lecturing skills. 2. Use more material from “cutting edge” research. 3. Re-design the course to replace lecturing with more active learning.

Poor Student Preparation Slide: Poor Student Preparation   1. Assign more severe penalties for not doing the readings beforehand. 2. Give students a pep talk. 3. Re-design the course to give students a reason to do the readings.

Poor Retention of Learning   1. Make the tests better (or tougher) 2. Require students to complete a refresher course 3. Re-design the course to give students more experience with using what they have learned Poor Retention of Learning

Dreaming Exercise

Integrated Course Design Key Components Learning Goals Feedback & Assessment Teaching & Learning Activities Situational Factors   Collecting information about… Specific Context Expectations by people outside the course Nature of the Subject Nature of Students Nature of Teacher S i t u a t i o n a l F a c t o r s

Situational Factors: Situational Factors Collecting information about…   Collecting information about… Specific Context Expectations by people outside the course Nature of the Subject Nature of Students Nature of Teacher

Roundtable

Using the Roundtable method, as a team list as many situational factors as you can.

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Examples of SITUATIONAL FACTORS

What is Cooperative Learning?   Enhancing Learning—and more!—Through Cooperative Learning http://www.idea.ksu.edu/papers/Idea_Paper_38.pdf Understanding Cooperative Learning http://www.nea.org/he/advo03/advo1203/front.html a structured form of small group problem solving that incorporates the use of heterogeneous teams, maintains individual accountability, promotes positive interdependence, instills group processing, and sharpens social skills

Group Formation