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Goodman, Yetta – Active Learner: A Foxfire Journal for Teachers, 1999
Professor of Education Yetta M. Goodman discusses her realization that teachers should showcase and support students rather than being the center of attention themselves, the importance of teachers observing their students in various contexts, the degrading aspect of grades, and the rights and responsibilities of teachers as professionals to state…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Classroom Techniques, Democratic Values, Elementary Secondary Education
Duckworth, Eleanor; Hills, Shirley – Active Learner: A Foxfire Journal for Teachers, 1997
Suggests ways in which a teacher or visitor can tell whether children are gaining from their science activities: classroom presence of real things to learn from, children working with these materials, and more talking by students than by the teacher. Lists observational questions about student work, behavior, and communication that can be used to…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Elementary Education

Parker, Sylvia D. – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 2001
It is time to stop viewing rural schools and communities as deficient and build on their tremendous assets--small size, an understanding of the connection between humans and nature, greater access to civic life, strong school-community ties, a sense of place and community, and cultural diversity. Examples describe innovative programs initiated by…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Citizenship Education, Community Involvement, Elementary Secondary Education

Steele, Tracey – Teaching Sociology, 2003
Describes an exercise that combines outlined strategies to help students master the abstruse power of the linguistic relativity hypotheses in divining the relationship among language, thought, and culture in U.S. society. States the exercise accomplishes three important pedagogical tasks and that educator interaction with students motivates the…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Active Learning, Critical Thinking, Cultural Awareness
Vos, Henk; de Graaff, E. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2004
The reasons to introduce formats of active learning in engineering (ALE) such as project work, problem-based learning, use of cases, etc. are mostly based on practical experience, and sometimes from applied research on teaching and learning. Such research shows that students learn more and different abilities than in traditional formats of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Objectives, Problem Based Learning, Active Learning, Metacognition
DeHaan, Robert L. – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2005
There is substantial evidence that scientific teaching in the sciences, i.e. teaching that employs instructional strategies that encourage undergraduates to become actively engaged in their own learning, can produce levels of understanding, retention and transfer of knowledge that are greater than those resulting from traditional lecture/lab…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Science Education, Educational Change, Active Learning
McLaren, Susan V. – Journal of Technology Studies, 2003
Design and technology (D&T) education involves learners coping creatively with complexity. It must take account of a wide range of often apparently conflicting demands and constraints: aesthetic, economic, political, ethical, social, and environmental as well as ergonomic, technical, and scientific. Case study tasks describe a relatively…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Technology Education
MacNevin, Audrey L. – Teaching Sociology, 2004
This paper reports on a teaching and learning technique that uses the power of everyday body language and proxemics to illustrate forms of social inequality. More significantly, the active learning exercises assist students to feel the fact that the making and maintaining of power relations is an intimate and visceral matter. In keeping with…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Active Learning, Sociology, Teaching Methods
D'Apice, Ciro; Manzo, Rosanna – International Journal for Technology in Mathematics Education, 2004
New information technologies can act as a Trojan horse offering activities that will require major changes in the teaching-learning process. Computer aided learning applications are able to offer advanced students the opportunity to improve their skills and to maintain their motivation. In the spirit of "learning by doing", they are…
Descriptors: Advanced Students, Instructional Design, Active Learning, Teaching Methods
Bodemer, Daniel; Ploetzner, Rolf; Feuerlein, Inge; Spada, Hans – Learning and Instruction, 2004
Computer-based learning environments commonly comprise symbolic as well as static and dynamic pictorial representations, frequently combined with the possibility of modifying them interactively. While multiple, dynamic and interactive external representations have the potential to improve learning in various ways, they also place specific demands…
Descriptors: Visualization, Pictorial Stimuli, Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Environment
Coelho, Jeffrey D. – Teaching Elementary Physical Education, 2005
An active learning environment is one in which students are able to "seek" out new experiences, "interpret" them, and "relate" them to previous experiences. This approach allows students to engage in independent thinking, problem solving, and guided discovery as they explore broad movement concepts. An active learning means that students are…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Teaching Methods, Instructional Design, Physical Education
Knight, Michelle G.; Dixon, Iris R.; Norton, Nadjwa E. L.; Bentley, Courtney – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2004
Technologies such as videoconferencing used for distance education are creating ways for high schools to extend their learning communities to connect youth with professional communities of practice in ways that approximate the face-to-face interactions in traditional classrooms. These technologies are often touted as a way to augment course…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Distance Education, African Americans, Hispanic Americans
Meir, Eli; Perry, Judith; Stal, Derek; Maruca, Susan; Klopfer, Eric – Cell Biology Education, 2005
Diffusion and osmosis are central concepts in biology, both at the cellular and organ levels. They are presented several times throughout most introductory biology textbooks (e.g., Freeman, 2002), yet both processes are often difficult for students to understand (Odom, 1995; Zuckerman, 1994; Sanger "et al.", 2001; and results herein). Students…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, College Science, Instructional Effectiveness, Science Experiments
Zappala, John – Community College Enterprise, 2005
"Teaching an online, web-based course...can be a challenging, intellectually stimulating and exciting endeavor" (Frederickson, Clark and Hochner, 2002). Instructors and students can enjoy "24/7" access to the class, day or night, weekday or weekend. Based on eight years of teaching experience online, the author believes the possibilities for…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Web Based Instruction, Online Courses, Active Learning
Marrs, Kathleen A.; Chism, Grady W., III – Journal of Food Science Education, 2005
Just-in-Time Teaching (JiTT) combines the best features of traditional in-class instruction with the communication potential available via the Web. We describe here how JiTT has been used in Biology Education and how it can be used in Food Science Education. JiTT uses Web-based "Warm Up" assignments due before class to stimulate critical thinking…
Descriptors: Foods Instruction, Biology, Science Instruction, College Science