1. Author: Rakhimzhanova Akmaral

2.  Introduce concept of active teaching  Demonstrate techniques & activities  Incorporate active learning into your future teaching

3. Embodies essence of the Renaissance ‘Rebirth’ of learning Thinking outside the box Ideas Discovery Experiment Change is good

4. Write down ways that your professors taught you Effective methods Ineffective methods

5. What are some ways you learn best now as a scientist?

6. Time of class (min) 1020304060 % Retained 50 100 50 0 lecture active teachning

8. students solve problems, answer questions, formulate questions of their own, discuss, explain, debate, or brainstorm during class ActiveTeaching Problem- Based Learning Cooperative Learning Learn By Doing Inquiry-based learning

9.  Increase student participation  Increase student engagement  Increase student retention  More student ownership in course  Less lecturing by instructor  More exciting classroom experience  Higher level thinking

10.  Plan objectives  Include graphics, charts, graphs, etc  Plan what you want to annotate  Learn students’ names  Cue important points  Give short activities  Give students time to generate questions  Have students summarize major points

11.  Dr. Robert Beichner – NCSU ◦ SCALE-UP – researching effectiveness of active learning in physics and chemistry ◦ http://scaleup.ncsu.edu/http://scaleup.ncsu.edu/ ◦ Example of SCALE-UP Activity Example of SCALE-UP Activity

12.  Think-pair-share (pair-share)  Role playing, simulations  Muddiest point/clearest point  Group quizzing  Generate lists  Cooperative learning  Minute papers and writing assignments  PBL and case studies  Concept maps

14.  Provide one figure/table to each student group  Propose a title for the paper  Delete abstract and have students write a summary

16. Case Studies

17. What are your concerns about using active teaching activities & techniques?

18.  Describe to the students what is happening and why  State expectations  Incorporate assessments with activities  Start off simple (low risk)  Ask questions, walk around classroom, be attentive to student questions  Have students rely on each other

19. National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science (case study collection): http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/projects/cases/case.h tml Problem Based Learning (U of Delaware): http://www.udel.edu/pbl/ MERLOT – (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching http://www.merlot.org Journals of Interest: Innovate: www.innovateonline.info/index.phpwww.innovateonline.info/index.php CBE Life Science Education – www.lifescied.org/www.lifescied.org/ Journal of College Science Teaching – www.nsta.orgwww.nsta.org Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education – www.bambed.org www.bambed.org

20. Thank you for your attention!!!